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1  Economy / Gambling / Re: everybet.io, a new bitcoin-based sports betting website is now live! on: November 28, 2018, 12:18:28 PM
Can the Wizards and Magic cast a spell on their opponents and win tonight? The double paid 5.60 but we’ve enhanced this to 6.50 (10 mBTC per customer). It’s another night of great sporting action at everybet.io

Your margins really need improvement if you want to be competitive, and this promotion is a great example of it. The same parlay pays @ 7.11 without a promotion on BitcoinRush. (currently @6.18 without promotion on everybet)

This is how your margins compare for NBA (but seem to be equally as bad for other popular events):

|Sportsbook|Match Winner Margin|Over/Under Margin|Handicap Margin|
|Betcoin.ag|5.91%|6.20%|N/A%|
|BitcoinRush|2.56%|2.57%|2.47%|
|Cloudbet|3.06%|2.57%|2.85%|
|Jetwin|4.56%|3.63%|3.53%|
|mBitCasino|2.56%|2.57%|2.47%|
|Nitrogen|3.59%|3.64%|3.61%|
|Sportsbet.io|5.82%|6.39%|5.84%|
|everybet|7.06%|7.28%|6.98%|

You have the worst margins out of all other semi-popular Bitcoin accepting sportsbooks that exist. Can you give me a reason why I should pay this increased juice to bet on your book?

Darkstar, its not completely fair just to take one event pre-live and compare the odds. Lot's of providers like 1xbet, for example push very low margin prices for the top leagues knowing they will come out best price and then for other sports and live they offer very poor value of odds. Also, just showing margin means absolutely nothing unless you show the max limit of the bet the operator is willing to take. Anyone can offer a 2/3% pre-match margin on $10 max bet limits etc. Who cares about getting a 3% margin if you can only get $10 down?
2  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [ICO LIVE] Unikoin Gold -Decentralized Esports Betting back by Mark Cuban on: August 20, 2018, 09:05:07 PM
Finally someone is going to nail Rahul for losing investors $25m and then trying to hide under this ICCO crap in Malta.
3  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [ICO LIVE] Unikoin Gold -Decentralized Esports Betting back by Mark Cuban on: July 16, 2018, 09:10:03 PM

You are a mod on a post with little expertise or insight into financial markets or financial regulation in the EU. Just having Maltese regulation - which hasn't even happened and is still in the consultation stage - is focused on gaming to start with and as a member of the ECB framework for banking Malta will still have to adhere to ECB regulation of crypto-currencies (please go ahead and deny it and i will point you to your OWN white-paper that states Palladium MUST receive ECB approval). Then lets just google ECB and crypto in the last month - completely independent of me and you will see and anyone can independently get that awareness of the ECB policy towards crypto. Perhaps you can tell me that you can predict the future and tell me when the ECB will create a regulatory financial license for crypto? No you can't and neither can Palladium so asking people for money with such a HUGE exposure on the legal framework is irresponsible and the ECB will see this dimly, i believe. Regular banks don't do an IPO BEFORE they get a license to trade! That's insane.

I mean lets look at Unikrn Gold. You, as an investor, invested in a coin for playing tournament gaming and now you are told "hey we are going into banking". I don't have to polish this turd for anyone with common sense to see that its a shill attempt to kick the Unikrn bucket down the road. Unikorn has made NO money and is burning it fast on operations.

naysayers like you with nothing better to do with their lives, will continue to pollute public forums instead. Regardless, we are not worried about Palladium.

Wow, UnikoinGold is not an investment, again if you followed the news you would see where Unikrn's CEO explains how this will effect UKG going forward, here allow me to link it to you, since you are too busy googling ECB, lol. https://medium.com/@rahulsood/introducing-palladium-bank-and-palladium-exchange-a-joint-venture-with-bittrex-6296cdff8696
I also applaud your wizard powers on how you know Unikrn has no revenue streams, can you tell me next weeks lotto numbers too? Your intelligence and fortune telling is so fantastic.
Looking at your post history you are nothing but a marketing mouthpiece for the Unikrngold coin and project Urbane. The EU Prospectus Directive is the vehicle ESMA set up for ALL EU ICO's and still does not negate for the need for the ECB to regulate cryptocurrencies in order for a crypto bank to exist. Malta is a tiny part of the EU fiscal structure. They are under intense scrutiny from the EU for many fiscal oversights recently and the weight of the Maltese government, while definitely helping Unikrn, it is not guaranteed at all over such a complex issue with many other central banks against this because they actually want to create their own central digital currencies.

I think it's only responsible to discuss the complexities of an unregulated commodity / currency and the political ramifications needed to be overcome to make this a viable venture. That is the whole point of the EU prospectus to explain to your ICCO customers "Hey just because Malta has backed this idea, we still need ECB approval and TBH that is actually quite a complicated subject matter and WE MAY NOT receive it".
4  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [ICO LIVE] Unikoin Gold -Decentralized Esports Betting back by Mark Cuban on: July 16, 2018, 06:57:25 PM
Original Unikrn investors wanted their money back so they decided to do an ICO. Then they realised they would have somehow show that the ICO investors weren't being scammed to get Mark Cuban is hard earned so the spiderweb was woven even tighter and now their is an ICCO! And when the ICCO investors want their money back they'll do an ICCCO? If you actually read the whitepaper for Palladium you will see"We just need to BUY a bank somewhere (maybe Malta) and we need European Bank to regulate it all".

Well, i don't know if these guys know anything about EU regulations and how long it takes and that it takes ALL 27 countries to agree to regulating crypto coins before they allow any potential bank to allow for regulated transactions but this can potentially take years. EU governments, such as Spain, have said there is no way their central banks would regulate crypto coins and many would veto this from happening as part of a centralise EU fiscal policy. Even the main board-members on the ECB executive committee have publicly distanced themselves from wanting to regulate. For sure this will end in a mess and i assume the founders will have some LLC route out for bankruptcy leaving all ICO and ICCO holders with dust.

I'm not going to be wasting too much time wasting this ridiculous attempt at FUD.
UnikoinGold and Unikrn platform development and expansion efforts are ongoing, are you keeping up? Did you not watch the video or read the blogposts we keep our community updated with?

Palladium is a seperate from UnikoinGold.
- This isn't a scam, it's a regulated raising of funds with a dedicated team to build out the entire company for which the ICCO tokens - and later shares, are held.
- Malta regulations are very welcoming to blockchain companies and cryptocurrency and hence why this venture has such strong ties to Malta.
- Regulation of cryptocurrency is indeed a tough road but far from unfeasible. You think all of these businesses and recognized business people would tie their name to something they wouldn't actually back?

Not mentioned in the docs and there are some caveats to it - but I am fairly sure anyone in the EU can apply to open a bank account in another EU country.

You are a mod on a post with little expertise or insight into financial markets or financial regulation in the EU. Just having Maltese regulation - which hasn't even happened and is still in the consultation stage - is focused on gaming to start with and as a member of the ECB framework for banking Malta will still have to adhere to ECB regulation of crypto-currencies (please go ahead and deny it and i will point you to your OWN white-paper that states Palladium MUST receive ECB approval). Then lets just google ECB and crypto in the last month - completely independent of me and you will see and anyone can independently get that awareness of the ECB policy towards crypto. Perhaps you can tell me that you can predict the future and tell me when the ECB will create a regulatory financial license for crypto? No you can't and neither can Palladium so asking people for money with such a HUGE exposure on the legal framework is irresponsible and the ECB will see this dimly, i believe. Regular banks don't do an IPO BEFORE they get a license to trade! That's insane.

I mean lets look at Unikrn Gold. You, as an investor, invested in a coin for playing tournament gaming and now you are told "hey we are going into banking". I don't have to polish this turd for anyone with common sense to see that its a shill attempt to kick the Unikrn bucket down the road. Unikorn has made NO money and is burning it fast on operations.
5  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Tokens (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ICO] BetterBetting Opens ICO Public Sale for BETR on: July 16, 2018, 03:25:54 PM
Biggest growth gambling token today . We just need a volume increase now but that will come when listed on more exchanges

0.5BTc 24hr volume. I'd say more exchanges and then a miracle on top.
6  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] [ICO LIVE] Unikoin Gold -Decentralized Esports Betting back by Mark Cuban on: July 16, 2018, 03:19:29 PM
Introducing Palladium Bank and Palladium Exchange, a Joint Venture with Bittrex.



UnikoinGold was launched as the largest gaming and esports token sale to date, with over 112,000 ETH collected, largely from individual customers in over 100 countries. Almost immediately, our community of users ran into an issue that plagues every altcoin on the market: access.

More people wanted UKG than could get it, and going through the hurdles of acquiring Bitcoin, finding an exchange, transferring the BTC to that exchange, trading for UKG, and then coming to Unikrn is just a broken experience on so many levels.

On top of this we hurried to get UKG onto as many legitimate exchanges as possible, but because there are so many questionable operations in crypto, we knew we had to do our research. During the fall of 2017, it became substantially more difficult to vet exchanges because of the unheard of amount of volume and scams in the space.

This leads me to conclude that the crypto market is in desperate need of three things to become mainstream;

  • Governments need to support innovation in the blockchain space while applying regulation that protects consumers.
  • Banks need to embrace blockchain and make it easy to bank with crypto.
  • Blockchain companies need tools to make it easier for their customers to use their platforms.

I’ve wanted to help change these broken aspects of the ecosystem for a long time now, and today we’re taking a huge step toward solving some of blockchain’s biggest challenges. We’re working to put cryptocurrency into the spotlight in a way never before seen while radically improving the user experience for companies like Unikrn.

Today, I am in Malta. I am here because it is one of the most forward-thinking countries in the world particularly when it comes to cryptocurrency and fintech. There’s a reason that Unikrn worked over a year to establish roots in Malta, and now companies like Binance, OKex, Bitbay, and a host of other companies in this field are shipping operations here.

Say Hi to Palladium

I’m joining the board of — and Unikrn is helping power — one of the most ambitious blockchain companies in the world. It’s called Palladium. You’re probably wondering if this is just another “historic” cryptocurrency project with no teeth (I’m sure you hear about those every day). I would say other projects are guppies, while this is a shark.

Palladium will become the first regulated unified platform for fiat banking and cryptocurrency exchange, meaning users will be able to make cryptocurrency payments for their bills, buy crypto from their checking account, or swap crypto assets without needing multiple wallets and accounts, all from a single platform. Palladium Exchange, powered by Bittrex, will be the first regulated exchange to allow both security and utility tokens to be transacted.

The project is regulated by a European directive prospectus which is already approved, the first ever, and nothing like this exists in the world.

Palladium will further make history by holding the world’s first-ever initial convertible coin offering (ICCO) which will give our investors an actual convertible warrant for actual partial ownership of the company, creating direct investor participation.

It’s designed to effect sweeping change in crypto and fintech by allowing users to buy, sell, trade, and save in any currency — crypto or fiat — within a fully legal and regulatory compliant framework.

In a new joint venture with Bittrex, Palladium and Bittrex are building a brand-new exchange — we are in the middle of acquiring our banking license while creating a network that will allow the two to interact and communicate within modern regulation.

There’s a reason Unikrn was tapped for this project: we created the idea alongside some veterans of insurance, finance and investment. This will help create liquidity in all legitimate crypto markets, from Bitcoin to UnikoinGold to small utility tokens created for niche markets with legitimate teams behind them.

Bittrex CEO Bill Shihara, who recently joined our board of advisors, is here in Malta with me, along with Kiran Raj, Bittrex Chief Strategy Officer, and Unikrn co-founder Karl Flores, Unikrn CTO Daniel Rudolph. We’re also joined by the incredible Palladium leadership team including their CEO Prof. Paolo Catalfamo. We are announcing Palladium today at the Malta Stock Exchange with the Prime Minister of Malta, Dr. Joseph Muscat, the Parliamentary Secretary for Financial Services, Digital Economy and Innovation, Mr. Silvio Schembri, the CEO of the Malta Financial Services Authority, Mr. Joseph Cuschieri, and many more.

So What does this mean for Unikrn?

While this is a major move for the industry as a whole, I can understand why our customers and investors would ask what is the benefit to Unikrn.

Firstly, it means we’re working on solutions to enhance the blockchain ecosystem, which will be good for UnikoinGold users. That’s especially important to think about given that we’re rolling out crypto betting soon. We want to give our users the ability to swipe a credit card and buy UKG from our site, just make it easy. This is the kind of tech we will work to enable for every good operator in the space.

Secondly, Unikrn is a significant owner of this potentially world-changing venture. We created vital new technologies for the UKG sale, we have patent-pending crypto-related tech in our stables for UKG, and we plan to license some of that to Palladium.

Thirdly, it means we’re working side-by-side with leaders in crypto and blockchain, the Malta government, Bittrex, and others who are defining the world. We get this seat in history because we are defining the world, too, and our entire community is there with us.

Thank you for supporting us on our journey! Go Palladium and Go Unikrn!

Original Unikrn investors wanted their money back so they decided to do an ICO. Then they realised they would have somehow show that the ICO investors weren't being scammed to get Mark Cuban is hard earned so the spiderweb was woven even tighter and now their is an ICCO! And when the ICCO investors want their money back they'll do an ICCCO? If you actually read the whitepaper for Palladium you will see"We just need to BUY a bank somewhere (maybe Malta) and we need European Bank to regulate it all".

Well, i don't know if these guys know anything about EU regulations and how long it takes and that it takes ALL 27 countries to agree to regulating crypto coins before they allow any potential bank to allow for regulated transactions but this can potentially take years. EU governments, such as Spain, have said there is no way their central banks would regulate crypto coins and many would veto this from happening as part of a centralise EU fiscal policy. Even the main board-members on the ECB executive committee have publicly distanced themselves from wanting to regulate. For sure this will end in a mess and i assume the founders will have some LLC route out for bankruptcy leaving all ICO and ICCO holders with dust.
7  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Tokens (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN][ICO] BetterBetting Opens ICO Public Sale for BETR on: June 04, 2018, 06:49:12 PM
Will this ICO sportsbook launch for the world cup as promised?
8  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Announcements (Altcoins) / Re: [ANN] Peerplays - First Ever Blockchain-Based Gaming Platform on: June 04, 2018, 06:46:16 PM
Ten days until WC launch, will you be ready?
9  Economy / Gambling / Re: ᴥᵜᴥ Oshi.io .ᴥᵜᴥ. A different online casino! .ᴥᵜᴥ. Choose your own bonus ᴥᵜᴥ on: June 04, 2018, 06:35:26 PM
OshiNick there is an ignore button right under Gameprotects name. The rest of us have taken the plunge already. Roll Eyes
10  Economy / Gambling / Re: ᴥᵜᴥ Oshi.io .ᴥᵜᴥ. A different online casino! .ᴥᵜᴥ. Choose your own bonus ᴥᵜᴥ on: April 26, 2018, 01:24:46 PM
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The mistake you made is using Softswiss scam casinos! Cheesy
Most likely a casino bonus abuser and your "mum" playing casino... uhuh. The community has to be able to see the difference between a genuine issue and the tail of a professional bonus abuser. If casino's didn't block bonus abuse then they would all close their doors and then you'd have nowhere to play. Common sense says that this poster with a single post, in those circumstances is a chancer imho.
11  Economy / Gambling / Re: BTCSPIN Casino170+Games And Growing. Register And Grab Your 300% Bonus! on: April 16, 2018, 01:22:29 PM
Really fresh casino design, good job from your designers. The blocking of Ukrainian IP’s must be a first! Молодец! Tongue
Thanks for your reply!
We've got a lot of things to improve.

Hi

May I ask why you block Ukraine's IP, only because the services is illegal in Ukraine or ?

Thank you.

btw, I really like your site, it is cool!
They are probably Ukrainian. It is illegal to offer online gaming in ukraine although it’s VERY grey and you see many local companies sponsoring in ukraine regardless. Many Russian and Ukrainian gaming companies also use Cyprus as base of operations now, as BTCspin show.
12  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🎲BTCSPIN Casino🎲170+Games And Growing. Register And Grab Your 300% Bonus!🎲 on: April 13, 2018, 09:47:55 PM
Really fresh casino design, good job from your designers. The blocking of Ukrainian IP’s must be a first! Молодец! Tongue
13  Economy / Gambling / Re: ᴥᵜᴥ Oshi.io .ᴥᵜᴥ. A different online casino! .ᴥᵜᴥ. Choose your own bonus ᴥᵜᴥ on: April 13, 2018, 09:07:43 PM
Whatever you do, you are still on the Curacao licensing scam operators list!
I assume I will be on your stalker list for piping up but I think you are very black and white with your blanket assumption that holding an X or Y Curacao sub-license immediately touts that company as a “scam”. You have named HUGE and reputable brands on your site with little actual research going on. You’ve just lumped everyone together. For example Rizk.com is about as reputable as gaming sites could get. It is a brand under the Maltese licensed GIG company which is on the Swedish stock exchange. I think it’s right to have a devils advocate sitting on the fence, as I agree, there are scams and shoddiness galore regarding crypto but I would suggest you need to analyse each brand on a case by case basis. Curacao is necessity for getting licensed for certain casino providers. Curacao it’s self should do MUCH more to ensure brands are adhering to their regulations but sometimes to operate in grey markets Curacao is the only choice for many brands. You’ve even named bet365 in you’re list so how can people take it seriously?
14  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Best sports betting sites on: April 13, 2018, 08:55:04 PM
Today maybe it's more convenient to bet with Ethereum! Why don't you have a look at RoBET?! It's the perfect connection of cryptocurrencies and sports betting!
Now the RoBET Bounty campaign is online, you can find it at this link: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3248619.msg33828572#msg33828572
The ICO will start on April the 20th!!
And when will the sportsbook start?

Can you describe a little bit more the advantages of this sports betting site?

Game Protect always looks for interesting sportsbooks to be added here Crypto Sports Betting sites with consumer protection service


Thanks for asking! The sportsbook will begin with the start of the World Cup!

RoBET is designed to create an innovative 'Betting Exchange' able to enhance the use of smart contracts and blockchain.
The platform is integrated with an AI engine, that elaborates odds and forecasts, supporting the needs of players and bookmakers.
Players can bet using RAC tokens or they can open a mini digital agency and have their own account.
Moreover, they can choose a cryptocurrency for their sports betting and decide a cryptocurrency for their rewards. This way, they can bet at the same time on both sports events and the trend of the crypto market.

I hope I've been exhaustive! For further information, you can read our whitepaper


I read your white paper, and even with a background in math and sportsbetting, I’m still trying to get my head around what the actual product is. I think it is clear that the enterprise has the right idea regarding AI and machine learning driving efficient market models is the right direction (FYI two companies are already doing this one is called stratagem and is run by ex Goldman Sachs analysts) but I think you have fundamentally missed two vital parts and possibly shows where you think the financial market should always be the model to replicate into sportsbetting. 1. This concept is far too complicated for the layman in the st. Betfair is the pinnacle of the advancement of sportsbetting market but it’s by no means the most popular format or platform because the back and lay is too complexed for most bettors. The majority of global bettors want to be told: here is the event, this is the market and here is your potential winnings. People just want to gamble as simply as possible. The second part is that the resulting of markets in sportsbetting is turning into a rightsholders monopoly, whereby agencies acting on behalf of the big leagues have created specific betting rights and copyrights. Recreating or copying this data to result markets (which is a fundamental aspect of any sportsbook functionality, especially for inplay / live markets) is illegal and these HUGE corporations are starting to target any companies doing this with legal challenges. You may say this is “decentralised” and role out the old “we use oracles” to result markets but then that opens up a huge integrity question and the system is open to abuse and manipulation. Your are clearly a smart team and the product has some great promise but it’s been executed naively.
15  Economy / Gambling / Re: 🏀 🏒 NBAxNHL PLAYOFFS COMING SOON 🏀 🏒 The Future of Betting 🏀 🏒 on: April 12, 2018, 06:08:14 PM
Hi there,
Just wondering is Nitrogensports banning Singapore IP?
What happened!?

Hello Allpak. There are temporary bans in some countries/IP addresses because of suspicious activity in those areas. Please try again in the next few days to check if they are unbanned.

-Kevin
I heard a rumour that you are facing relentless pressure on your sportsbook risk management from sharp handicappers and might close down soon as a consequence. Is this true?
16  Economy / Gambling / Re: FAIRLAY - SPORTS BETTING for experts - highest liquidity, provably best odds on: April 12, 2018, 04:38:53 PM
We were featured at Bitcoin News! Come and check the full story!

https://news.bitcoin.com/bitcoin-prediction-market-fairlay-sees-sizable-volumes/
Will you create an API to allow market makers to seed on fairlay more easily than manual input?
17  Economy / Gambling / Re: ⚽ Sportsbet.io - Daily Price Boosts 💰 Live Steaming 🏀 on: April 12, 2018, 04:17:20 PM
Can anyone else not access sportsbet.io using a VPN? I just get the loading sign and it doesn't load on multiple VPN services. Big job to block VPN's
18  Economy / Gambling / Re: FORTUNEJACK.COM |Deposit 777 play with 1777 mBTC |Live Casino, Slots, Betting on: April 12, 2018, 03:53:54 PM
Hi, dear Community,

As you may have read on the forum, there was a minor attack on our service recently, and some of the mostly outdated sources were stolen from our archives. We have been making a complete revision of the issue and can firmly state that sources are old and mean nothing for now.

However, the hacker is still speculating with data and tries to blackmail our company. Sadly for him and greatly for us, we have amazing news:

WE ARE LAUNCHING A NEW WEBSITE THIS WEEK.

THE IRRELEVANT DATA HACKER HAS TAKEN WILL BE EVEN MORE IRRELEVANT, AS NEW WEBSITE RUNS ON WHOLE NEW SOURCE.

We are currently running an investigation, involving several governmental officials in various European countries and also private companies specializing in the crime of this nature. We have decided to make final results of investigation transparent and report will also be posted on BTC TALK.

However, even we are in full control of this situation and can assure our players your funds and wallets are safe as always, we kindly recommend you to change passwords on your FJ accounts and set 2FA, to be sure that you are the only one that can access your account.

Our media advisors and experts believe that spite of our recent success motivated this attack. FortuneJack is successfully becoming a global brand, our visibility in a worldwide crypto community grows on a daily basis. We are stronger than ever; sadly this also attracts lots of envious and jealous eyes.

Cases like this only motivate us to continue moving forward and building an online casino that is created by players for players.

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An unregulated crypto gaming site that takes players from the US is working hand-in-hand with government agencies on this? That i HIGHLY doubt. Really looking forward to seeing this communication with interpol being posted.
19  Economy / Gambling / Re: ⚖️ Crypto Gambling Foundation ⚖️ - Fair Gambling For All on: April 04, 2018, 09:40:45 AM
@Stunna I am curious about something.
Provably fair, at least in my mind means - gambling session with unchanged client seed + unchanged server seed while only nonce changes.
Is this correct?

Provably fair only means that the user can prove that the game was fair. There could be / are other ways to do this other than the standard client & server seed model (some only work for specific types of games, i.e. lottos). However, what you mentioned is the most common and regarded as better than most because it is much easier to verify.

Can this be done on poker sites, or are some poker sites doing something like it today?  I swear there are times when I def think online poker is rigged.  Yeah yeah, I read everything about how it's not and all that.  But are they provably fair?

...  Yup exactly.  Grin


Provably fair on pvp poker is pretty hard to pull off and as far as i know there are  no poker sites that do that yet.

We are trying to figure it out 😀.

It has to be done in a way so server doesn't know which carda are delth to players nor the face card. And so the players can verify they got the right cards.

So casino would not be able to have insider players which know the cards or to deal good hands for bigger rake.

Kinda hard to do correctly.

Virtue Poker looks like it would be the first to do this: https://virtue.poker/ im normally quite disdainful of the gambling blockchains, as they are generally all full of crap scams but these guys have a fantastic team and good blockchain, cryptographic and poker knowledge. Its a pity that poker is not so popular these days compared to last 20 years.
20  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Why kyc is even required? on: March 19, 2018, 12:40:15 PM
i looked into this a little bit and it would seem the gambling guys who ask for KYC for large payments are basically going from this, as most are based in Europe:
"The new directive does not completely change those requirements; however it differentiates the transaction threshold. For transfers of funds according to article 3 (9) regulation (EU) 2015/847, the threshold is set to € 1,000, including credit transfers, direct debit transactions as well cross-border transactions “carried out using a payment card, an electronic money instrument, or a mobile phone, or any other digital or IT prepaid or postpaid device”. A threshold of € 10,000 applies for persons “trading in goods, when carrying out occasional transactions” in cash and finally the specific threshold of € 2,000 “applies for providers of gambling services, upon the collection of winnings, the wagering of a stake, or both”
https://www.bankinghub.eu/banking/finance-risk/finalization-4th-anti-money-laundering-directive

They are pretty much doing half KYC in regards to knowing who is winning big based upon that EU directive.

As Curacao is technically an associate member of the European Community, with most crypto-casino's holding a Curacao license, all Curacao businesses come under the European fiscal rules with the Supreme Court of the Netherlands presiding over any final judgements with Curacao and financial conduct. As a consequence Curacao must uphold KYC using the framework adhered to it by the EU such as:

FATF/OECD compliant
EU-compliant
AML compliant

The European Commission advised that all European cryptocurrency exchanges will become obliged entities under the 4th AntiMoney Laundering Directive recently. That directive says that to use a financial transactions service any users must pass KYC first which includes: ”Evidence of identity that can take a number of forms. In respect of individuals, much weight is placed on so-called ‘identity documents’, such as passports and photocard driving licences, and these are often the easiest way of being reasonably satisfied as to someone’s identity." Therefore any one using a Curacao license is also obliged to collect KYC according to the EU 4th AML directive.

In conclusion, if you are not being asked for specific documents to verify your identity before you are allowed to deposit crypto into a casino with a Curacao license then the casino in question is in breach of its Curacao license and EU law. You can actually then take any claims against a casino to a Curacao court of law and you can probably sue the Curacao gaming licensing agency also because they are not properly adhering to EU 4th AML directive also, which the Supreme Court of Nederlands has ultimate jurisdiction over.

Everyone should know their rights when dealing with gambling companies and all these companies are breaking the law if they are a) based in Europe as an entity or b) hold a Curacao license.

Example: coingaming group (bitcasino.io / sportsbet.io) is based in the EU (Estonia) with a Curacao license and does not undertake KYC as based upon the 4th AML directive (aka not verifying the identity of an individual before a financial deposit) so is therefore is breaking the law. Mention all these points above to any operator if they claim KYC and see what they come back with.
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