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What was the first bitcoin casino and when did it start?

I mean what year?

I do not know but I assume various forms of gambling have been around since near the start of bitcoin.

Ok.. Anyone here knows the first bitcoin gambling site and what year did it started?

Not sure but the oldest ones seem to be just-dice and primedice.

I'm not sure about casinos but the first sportsbook opened in 2011.

when bitcoin become so popular in year 2011

the oldest betting site that is still open(and I know of) dates from 2011(Anonibet).

But I guess gambling is around since the first bitcoin forum was online

What i know is, SatoshiDice is the first bitcoin gambling ::)

i think its not first site is sport betting

Should be around 2010, after developements in the API happened, and gaming developer thought it was time to make a gambling site out of it.

Hmm.. If I'm not wrong, the oldest-standing gamble site is https://www.satoshidice.com/ . Well, I read this on a gamble review thread. Not sure when did it start..

Wow the oldest dice site huh, I just figure it out today.

Maybe bitcoin's gambling site recently follow satoshidice 's step or method...

I also curious about bitcoin gambling site history...

anonybet and satoshidice are the two oldest and still working gambling sites. There were some others too but can't recall.

I guess it started in the year 2011 or so.
For me it really started in year 2013 when I came to know about primedice.

I think sports betting might have been the first thing to start as a a gambling site, as it didn't really need a concept.
It was pretty easy to get that started and running.

I'm sure satoshidice is the first gambling site, they became popular quickly, make total bitcoin transaction in a day increase & help bitcoin price rise up.
But now they lost popularity  :(

I believe one of the earliest is moonco.in which was closed after a major hack. Satoshidice is the first and longest onchain dice gambling and primedice was one of the earliest in offchain dice.

The first ever thread in this gambling section is https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=840.0 created in Aug 2010, which looks to be a poker site.

Threads sorted by creation date: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=56.0;sort=first_post;aesc

satoshidice.com was probably amongst the first, their stats go back to April 2012, definitely Before primedice and JD.

Satoshidice seems the oldest to me but there might be other sites who were in business earlier than it and got closed.

SwC opened in 2011 while SD opened in 2012, and SwC is still the most popular bitcoin poker site nowadays.

satoshidice.com was greate!

There was like btc blackhole

Sounds about right Seals with clubs came first then satoshidice stepped in with it's IPO on mpex before getting sold off at 2013 and becoming less prominent, also introduced the concept of blockchain spam and the trend towards off-chain transactions for gambling sites.

When did USA make online gambling illegal?

Probably when BTC first became popular, gambling started to surface. And it hasn't looked back.

I think you are right, SwC opened in Aug 2011, Anonybet Dec 2011 and SC opened in April 2012.

I think online gambling was famous much before that .
Probably when pokerstars came out in 2000ish .  However the question with online gambling is the legality part. I don't think it is legal in all states yet.

I would have expected sport betting sites to be the first ones to open, as its much easier to get it started. Probably due to all the API's coming up late it might have been delayed.
The lottery might still have been there before the gambling sites came up.