https://bookie.exchange/
Received an email from them yesterday to say that beta testing will begin in early 2018.
The site has a good FAQ section on it and worth a look.
Iambic
Bookie Exchange
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My initial response as well. Just too volatile and prone to potentially being a bubble-currency for me to gamble with a lot of hard work to build a bankroll and potentially having it wiped out by things beyond your own control.
Anyone with an idea as to why they would forego non-digital currencies?
That being said, the more serious attempts to create a market beyond the current de facto monopoly, the better.
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Interesting article on the racing post:
https://www.racingpost.com/news/technol ... rld/285183
Euler - great to hear that you are in contact with these guys.
Based on your experience using exchanges, do you think Bookie (or another player) could change everything?
My limited understanding is that if something like Bookie took off, even if the US chose to not legalise online gambling, it wouldn't matter as people could trade on Bookie?
Iambic
https://www.racingpost.com/news/technol ... rld/285183
Euler - great to hear that you are in contact with these guys.
Based on your experience using exchanges, do you think Bookie (or another player) could change everything?
My limited understanding is that if something like Bookie took off, even if the US chose to not legalise online gambling, it wouldn't matter as people could trade on Bookie?
Iambic
Hello BetAngel forum!
Quick introduction: We are the Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA). PBSA is building Bookie, a decentralized betting exchange. We've had the pleasure of chatting to Euler in the past, and thought it was high time we made ourselves available to the wider BetAngel community to answer any questions about Bookie.
Last week we flagged the upcoming Bookie Public Beta with a new splashpage: bookiebeta.com.
We also hosted an AMA on last week that might be of interest:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OfficialBookie ... ns_ask_me/
(Thanks to iambic_pentameter for taking part in the AMA, and also for starting this thread)
Thanks
Toby Lynas, Head of Operations, PBSA
Quick introduction: We are the Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA). PBSA is building Bookie, a decentralized betting exchange. We've had the pleasure of chatting to Euler in the past, and thought it was high time we made ourselves available to the wider BetAngel community to answer any questions about Bookie.
Last week we flagged the upcoming Bookie Public Beta with a new splashpage: bookiebeta.com.
We also hosted an AMA on last week that might be of interest:
https://www.reddit.com/r/OfficialBookie ... ns_ask_me/
(Thanks to iambic_pentameter for taking part in the AMA, and also for starting this thread)
Thanks
Toby Lynas, Head of Operations, PBSA
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According to the RP article...
"regulation and local laws all become virtually irrelevant when weighed against a globe-girding, fully decentralised platform."
Who's going to abritrate disputes or provide other legal protections? And by decentralized, do you mean that you won't be holding people's money to cover their liability?
The 2 questions go hand in hand.
Futher from the article.
gamblers around the world will have the option to bet using an unregulated, ungovernable and supranational betting exchange that pays no tax or levy, is answerable to no government and is all but immune to attempts to control it.
Some will find that exciting, some will find that morally questionable.
Personally I wouldn't deal with a business who didn't contribute to the tax pool from which they benefit in whatever jurisdiction that happened to be. I assume if the office catches fire you hope a fire engine would turn up? But I'm sure you'll find lots of customers who aren't so bothered by that, until of course their house catches fire and the fire engines don't to turn up.
This is already bad enough->
"Bookmakers and casinos have avoided paying around £1bn in UK tax on bets placed by British people by routing them through subsidiaries based in overseas tax havens.........more than the highly publicised recent cases of tax avoidance by Starbucks and Amazon."
"regulation and local laws all become virtually irrelevant when weighed against a globe-girding, fully decentralised platform."
Who's going to abritrate disputes or provide other legal protections? And by decentralized, do you mean that you won't be holding people's money to cover their liability?
The 2 questions go hand in hand.
Futher from the article.
gamblers around the world will have the option to bet using an unregulated, ungovernable and supranational betting exchange that pays no tax or levy, is answerable to no government and is all but immune to attempts to control it.
Some will find that exciting, some will find that morally questionable.
Personally I wouldn't deal with a business who didn't contribute to the tax pool from which they benefit in whatever jurisdiction that happened to be. I assume if the office catches fire you hope a fire engine would turn up? But I'm sure you'll find lots of customers who aren't so bothered by that, until of course their house catches fire and the fire engines don't to turn up.
This is already bad enough->
"Bookmakers and casinos have avoided paying around £1bn in UK tax on bets placed by British people by routing them through subsidiaries based in overseas tax havens.........more than the highly publicised recent cases of tax avoidance by Starbucks and Amazon."
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I'm sure you do the noble thing and voluntarily pay tax from your trading profits too , Shaun.
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spreadbetting wrote: ↑Wed Apr 04, 2018 5:09 pmI'm sure you do the noble thing and voluntarily pay tax from your trading profits too , Shaun.
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Just a bit fed up with 'paying no tax' being oh so clever and then having to watch Sports Relief on the telly because we can't afford to properly look after a poor little kid with cancer. And somewhere like GOSH needs charity! ffs.
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8 mins to be shot dwon in flames sb.... I thought it would happen quicker than that.
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I was asking about the trading profit though, Shaun not the ones you can't avoid. You'll be moaning about your taxes going to immigrants next whilst paying less in tax than your pizza delivery driver probably does.
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The driver will be on a zero hours contract, unlikely to earn enough to pay tax.spreadbetting wrote: ↑Wed Apr 04, 2018 5:28 pmYou'll be moaning about your taxes going to immigrants next whilst paying less in tax than your pizza delivery driver probably does.
Where people are from and what make & model they are doesn't matter to me one jot. Don't lump me in with the "there's not enough to go round because of all the foreigners" gang.
Anyway, mustn't hi-jack this guys thread. I'm sure it will all be marvellous, just like unregulated, uncontrollable social media has been.
...and I'm not going to fall out with you sb because you're too bloody useful
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Fair enough, Shaun, fwiw the thought of an unregulated exchange certainly wouldn't be somewhere I'd be queuing up to fund especially as you're more likely to win and lose more by the swings in bitcoin than your prowess in the markets. I just find a lot of the forum's criticism of other's contribution to society to be a bit hypocritical when, solely ,as traders we contribute little if anything ourselves.
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Money, politics, religion. Can't avoid the first in here but the 2nd & 3rd never end well. Vive la difference.
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