Have you ever imagined yourself as a millionaire? If so, why not to gamble with cryptocurrencies? Discover some completely new gambling opportunities. What is a prediction market? Prediction market is a type of a website that offers people the chance to bet on virtual currency, so you can use your bitcoins to do so. You can suggest events there and then bet on them with bitcoins and earn money. Users can create their own events. Predictions are made against other users. The amount of bitcoins that the user wants is bet. This prediction and betting site that uses Bitcoin as…

Can you really use Bitcoin to gamble online? Well, you probably know a fascinating story about that one guy who spent 10,000 bitcoins on two pizzas in 2010 – Bitcoin was worth $25 at the time. Now for the same amount of money you could buy a stunning island near Florida, and for the rest of the money you could build a few luxury restaurants. We can only hope that that pizza was really delicious. The history of Bitcoin seems to be less than 9 years of ups and downs with a background of ever-growing public interest. The pain of…

Oh Hell is a simple but sophisticated trick taking game where you are supposed to guess how many tricks you can take with your given hand, and then try to take exactly that many tricks. If you do, you score. If you don’t, you bust. The Stackpot concept replaces the scoring with a monetary reward system, where you bet an ante based on the number of tricks, and if you don’t bust, you win your ante back, plus a bonus based on how many tricks you took. All the players that bust (at least one every hand) will lose their…

Sports betting and esports have been on course to converge with the gambling industry ever since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down PASPA. The decision of the court meant a lot of things, including the notion that esports betting could finally step out of the shadows in the legal sports betting arenas. When the federal government banned online gambling back in 2007, it shut down a lot of the online gambling operations by restricting payments. Venture Beat spoke with Joseph Pappano, managing director of Worldplay Gaming, at the recent Money 20/20 event in Las Vegas. They discussed betting on sports,…

Penn National selects IGT and their PlayDigital platform as its partner for Pennsylvania online gambling. The company is hoping to launch in the state during the first quarter of next year. The Penn Online Entertainment division has signed a five-year deal by which its brand HollywoodCasino.com will be powered by PlayDigital’s full suite of digital gaming products, including the platform, and services. The fact that Penn National selects IGT digital gaming platform, PlayCommand, will enable their online gaming for Pennsylvania-based customers via HollywoodCasino.com. Penn National will also leverage IGT’s PlayCasino, PlayBingo and PlayPoker online solutions. IGT’s latest win comes after it…

NetEnt enters the Pennsylvania online gambling market by signing casino giant Penn as its first partner in the state. The games developer’s share price was up almost 15% this morning after it reported a 10% rise in revenue to SEK 449m (€43m/$49m) and 11% increase in operating profit to around $19m for the three months to the end of September. During the quarter – the first full period since Therese Hillman became CEO on a permanent basis – Stockholm-listed NetEnt benefitted from the release of its new game based on hit film Jumanji, launched with British Columbia Lottery Corporation in…