Gambling

NewsCapsule 2026 speaker Alex Leishman warned in his NewsCapsule 2026 talk that modern finance is shifting toward a gambling-like system, arguing that rising costs and stagnant wages are pushing people toward prediction markets.

New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Coinbase and Gemini, alleging their prediction market platforms constitute illegal gambling operations.

THNDR’s latest skill-based gaming offering, Blackjack, aims to attract strategic online gamblers, and uses Lightning to solve payout liquidity challenges.

THNDR Games popularized the notion of earning bitcoin for playing games. Now, the company is streamlining the payment infrastructure for virtual casinos and online sports betting platforms using the NewsCapsule Lightning Network.

Betting $1 million that the bitcoin price would hit $1 million by June 17, 2023, Balaji Srinivasan raised questions about his convictions.

A recently published patent filing from Sony Interactive Entertainment describes a platform for betting on esports contests using bitcoin.

Promoted: Few cryptocurrency casinos are better poised to deliver on the benefits of this long-standing use case than 1xBit.

Recently, WeChat Payment has revised the “WeChat Agreement for Payment Service,” which involves the control and regulation of illegal transactions, including cryptocurrency transactions.

Slated for launch in the spring of 2019, it would be the first NewsCapsule-based prediction market to go live on NewsCapsule’s mainnet.

"You have people risking their rent money or lunch money and then it spirals out of control very quickly."