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hows it looking for getting cricket markets up? watching big bash final right now, money pouring in on betfair

We're still gunning for cricket at launch. Big bash final was a bit of a let-down, but lots of great international cricket on at the moment, and lots of people who can't get on at Betfair...!

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[Diced90]

Just got the following message while trying to load the site;

"exbet.io - the Bitcoin betting exchange - is not available in your territory right now."

Can anybody provide a list of blocked countries? Do you guys allow VPN usage? Please let me know.

[exbet.io]

Just got the following message while trying to load the site;

"exbet.io - the Bitcoin betting exchange - is not available in your territory right now."

Can anybody provide a list of blocked countries? Do you guys allow VPN usage? Please let me know.

hi Diced90, thanks for your interest.

Due to the fact that we are currently in the middle of a licensing process, we are erring on the safe side as regards geo-blocking. Once the license process has run its course there will be clearer guidance around permitted territories.

[arco-yabamba]

Just got the following message while trying to load the site;

"exbet.io - the Bitcoin betting exchange - is not available in your territory right now."

Can anybody provide a list of blocked countries? Do you guys allow VPN usage? Please let me know.

dunno where you situated but if in Usa theres gotta be no way you are accessing this site. too risky pushing this into the states and anyway exchange betting is foreign concept there so little reward also for exbet. having said that if exchange betting got a foothold there it could absolutely takeoff.

[imstillthebest]

Just got the following message while trying to load the site;

"exbet.io - the Bitcoin betting exchange - is not available in your territory right now."

Can anybody provide a list of blocked countries? Do you guys allow VPN usage? Please let me know.

dunno where you situated but if in Usa theres gotta be no way you are accessing this site. too risky pushing this into the states and anyway exchange betting is foreign concept there so little reward also for exbet. having said that if exchange betting got a foothold there it could absolutely takeoff.

dunno if you read the reply above which says they are still on licensing process and he said once that done , there could be no problem accesing the site on many countries . but im curious , did usa are strict on gambling ?  but why . i thought that usa is a friendly country or not strict country on many things . and what if we can only use a vpn for temporary purpose or for temporary acces  . by using vpn we can trick the site that we are on a legal country were gambling is fully legal  .

[mirq20]

add tennis instead of the NFL who plays at all, and tennis the big tournaments will come Madrid, Rome French Open, Wimbledon, US Open

[arco-yabamba]

dunno if you read the reply above which says they are still on licensing process and he said once that done , there could be no problem accesing the site on many countries . but im curious , did usa are strict on gambling ?  but why . i thought that usa is a friendly country or not strict country on many things . and what if we can only use a vpn for temporary purpose or for temporary acces  . by using vpn we can trick the site that we are on a legal country were gambling is fully legal  .

yes usa is strict on gambling without a license but it happens anyway of course lol eg all the costs rica books set up for usa only even tho they have no license

[exbet.io]

add tennis instead of the NFL who plays at all, and tennis the big tournaments will come Madrid, Rome French Open, Wimbledon, US Open

Tennis is definitely a strong shout and has been a staple of exchange betting for many years. It will not make launch but will be near the head of the queue after that. European clay season is one of our favorite times of the tennis year... then straight into a now sadly much-diminished grass season culminating in Wimbledon, surely the most iconic of all the Grand Slams. What a sport!

Having said all that, NFL is a Tier 1 sport in our humble opinion, and we're looking forward to offering a full range of markets, Pre-Match and In-Play, when next NFL season rolls round in Sept 2020.

[tumis]

When Rocket League and Hearthstone ?

[exbet.io]

Hi again tumis

When Rocket League and Hearthstone ?

Well, we need to launch first! 

Esports we'd love to get rolling, for sure (Hearthstone is a particular favorite with one of the exbet team, big Magic player but fell in love with Hearthstone when it brought Magic to the masses... but we digress...). However, our focus at launch will be the core sports betting offering. Esports has a huge future (and a pretty huge present actually) but we expect an exbet.io esports offering only once we have really grown userbase and liquidity as a whole.

Interested to see you ask about Rocket League and Hearthstone... usually CounterStrike, LoL and DOTA are the first that we get asked about.

[exbet.io]

An update on exbet.io launch plans

The ongoing COVID-19 disruption of so many high profile sporting leagues and competitions has led us to postpone the launch of exbet.io. To go live with a betting exchange product in the middle of such uncertainty in the sporting calendar would compromise the product offering and liquidity we are so committed to providing to our customers.

As such, we will hunker down and continue to build out the product. We will progress through the final stages of the licensing process. And we will make sure that when the sporting calendar has stabilized that we are in the best position possible to launch our world-class bitcoin betting exchange.

In the meantime - stay safe & stay well.

Regards
The exbet.io team

[arco-yabamba]

fair play I think that's the only option open to you given the circmstances. bad timing for you guys but hope it gives time to get a few more sports on board at launch

[exbet.io]

Thanks arco-yabamba.

The launch of a betting exchange is, of course, insignificant next to a global pandemic.

Our thoughts go out to everyone affected now and in the coming weeks and months.

[Bitcoin Marketing]

 NFL, NBA, Soccer - are you planning to replace this sports betting with esports or virtual sports?
Launching 2020 - when in 2020 due to the new world wide situation ?

Thank you

[exbet.io]

NFL, NBA, Soccer - are you planning to replace this sports betting with esports or virtual sports?
Launching 2020 - when in 2020 due to the new world wide situation ?

Thank you

Hello! We are not planning to use Esports or virtual sports as replacements.

Esports betting is growing all the time and has a huge future, but we want to build liquidity around the primary sports betting offering (Soccer, NFL, NBA, Cricket, and later Tennis, Horse Racing) before we expand into Esports markets. Although we will always be listening to liquidity providers and end users - if the demand for Esports grows massively, then we will of course review these plans.

Virtual sports, in our opinion, is not a good fit for a betting exchange. Effectively, virtual sports are a casino product that is powered by an RNG. This can work well in a traditional sportsbook, but we do not think it will attract liquidity on a betting exchange.

exbet.io will launch when we feel that the sporting calendar has recovered and stabilized sufficiently, but of course it is not clear yet *when* this will be. We will keep everyone updated on launch plans here on bitcointalk, on Twitter, and via our newsletter.

[beerlover]

I know that you are not fully open yet and considering you will be widely available only when the sports leagues will come back, I can understand why you wouldn't feel the rush to add in esports because that makes sense and lines up perfectly. However, right now the whole world basically stopped and saw the greatness of esports because it can be played at home and can be played whenever people want, even during a pandemic, do you really think that it will go away after the corona ends?

People will suddenly stop gambling there? They got a taste for it already during this period and I am pretty sure they will want more of it in the future when this pandemic is over (or at least not as deadly anymore). Do what you want of course, it is your own website, but I would suggest adding esports further.

[StephenJH]

I know that you are not fully open yet and considering you will be widely available only when the sports leagues will come back, I can understand why you wouldn't feel the rush to add in esports because that makes sense and lines up perfectly. However, right now the whole world basically stopped and saw the greatness of esports because it can be played at home and can be played whenever people want, even during a pandemic, do you really think that it will go away after the corona ends?

People will suddenly stop gambling there? They got a taste for it already during this period and I am pretty sure they will want more of it in the future when this pandemic is over (or at least not as deadly anymore). Do what you want of course, it is your own website, but I would suggest adding esports further.

Looks like a good idea. Actually, many gamblers included me give the esports a shot. After winning small amounts, it becomes more interesting to go further and check other sections of the esports. The lack of sports betting force the gambling addiction people to test the new sections of the online gambling websites and the gambling sites which have the mentioned features will start the match 1-0 score.

[orcun]

Exbet will fail. PERIOD.

Betbtc was a BTC bet exchange for 4,5 YEARS!.. They had everything, Betfair interface, good odds and API.. it had shit liquidity and in the end became (had to become) a sportsbook..

Fairlay the biggest BTC exchange has shit liquidity too. You may say because of its interface but why did Betbtc fail then? Exbet got excited for nothing..

BTC BET EXCHANGE business has no market except for a small number of players which will be banned by market makers, thats what happened in fiat exchanges except maybe Betfair..

[tyKiwanuka]

Betbtc was a BTC bet exchange for 4,5 YEARS!.. They had everything, Betfair interface, good odds and API.. it had shit liquidity and in the end became (had to become) a sportsbook..

It's very hard to drag people away from Betfair. They have a monopoly and whoever tried to challenge them in the past, has failed. I still remember back in the days, when they introduced the premium charge and everyone was raging. In the Betfair forums there was a call to leave Betfair and play/trade at Betdaq instead. The traders agreed on meeting in certain markets and do their business there. This worked a bit, but the liquidity was still way below Betfair. And of course you don't want to trade with/against fellow pros, but you want lots of noobs in the market. And these noobs didn't bother to move to Betdaq, because Betfair was still very liquid and these noobs were not affected by the premium charge. So everyone went back to Betfair and Betdaq remained just another exchange with no volume until today.

This is all fascinating to witness. I guess all other betting exchanges have better conditions, better customer support, aren't that greedy etc., but still everyone stays at Betfair or some white label solution of them. I don't think this will change in the foreseeable future, but one can try With lots of patience.....and money.

[beerlover]

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Looks like a good idea. Actually, many gamblers included me give the esports a shot. After winning small amounts, it becomes more interesting to go further and check other sections of the esports. The lack of sports betting force the gambling addiction people to test the new sections of the online gambling websites and the gambling sites which have the mentioned features will start the match 1-0 score.

Right? I mean esports is definitely not any of us first choice (or maybe SOME of us I don't know) and I know that when regular sports comes back people will move back to that for sure but we all tasted the blood on the air, I think we all will continue to gamble on esports years and just lower the amount we put into it, or maybe some people will stop gambling on esports all together but there will still be some people who liked it and will stay and not move back to regular sports as well.

I think adding esports can't really hurt, you are not removing anything, you are not giving less options to gamble, you are actually adding something and I don't see how that could hurt your business.