What will gambling do to the bitcoin block chain?
What are gambling transactions doing to the block chain? According to Jeremy Liew, a partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a large percentage of bitcoin transactions are gambling-based. With a block chain now over 9Gb in size, and becoming increasingly tedious and difficult for new clients to download, that's becoming a problem. How are gambling-based transactions contributing? Liew points to the most recent available financial report from SatoshiDice, which is the most popular bitcoin gambling site. That site processed 5,222,994 bets in 426 days of operation (that's an average of 12,260....
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Bitcoin will be the sixth largest global reserve currency by 2030, according to research by Silicon Valley investment firm Magister Advisors, which surveyed some 30 block chain companies, the International Business Times reported. The research also indicates banks will invest $1 billion in block chain technology in the next few years and that the block chain will become the rails on which finance runs. Block chain is "without question" the most important enterprise IT development in a decade, said Jeremy Millar, a partner in the investment firm. He characterized the block chain as being on....
Although gambling is a big industry, online gambling is still not as significant as it could be. Its proportion of the gambling industry currently hovers around 10%. However, over the last few years, online gambling have emerged as a popular choice among people. According to H2 Gambling Capital, the online gambling market in terms of gross winnings, has a global market value of €21.73bn ($28.54bn) in 2012. Interestingly, since the emergence of Bitcoin, the total value of online gambling is expected to increase multifold. It’s also true that gambling with Bitcoin only accounts for a tiny....