The Romanian Court of Accounts (CCR) has uncovered widespread regulatory failures and tax collection negligence by the country’s gambling regulator, the Romania National Office for Gambling (ONJN). Ac...
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Drastic Regulatory Failings Could Have Cost Romania €900M in Lost Taxes Las Vegas Strip Meets Crypto: Kayak Protester Uses Bellagio Fountains for Token Promotion A man has been arrested and is facing misdemeanor charges for promoting cryptocurrency after holding up a sign from his kayak in the famous Bellagio Hotel & Casino fountains. Protestors gathered i...
Digital Gaming Dominates Pennsylvania January Revenue—Could Crypto Be Next? The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board has reported $529.08 million in gross gaming revenue for January 2025. This marks a 10.88 percent rise from January 2024’s reported figure of $477.15 million. As ...
Crypto iGaming Hopes Dashed as Indiana Fails to Advance Online Gambling Bill After comments from Rep. Todd Huston, the Speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives, casino expansion in Indiana has effectively died. Indiana was one of the few states that had hope for broader...
Crypto Casino BC.GAME Teams Up with UFC’s Colby Covington for Charity Initiative Crypto-first company BC.GAME has partnered with Colby Covington, a top-ranked UFC fighter, and has launched a charity community initiative. The partnership got underway with a street charity event in ...
UKGC Highlights Crypto’s Growing Role in Gambling and AML Challenges The United Kingdom Gambling Commission (UKGC) has said that it expects cryptocurrencies to become more prevalent. In London, John Pierce, the UKGC’s Enforcement Director, spoke at the Gambling Anti Mo...
Jason Robins Says DraftKings Will Consider Crypto If More States Approve Jason Robins, DraftKings’s Chief Executive Officer, has admitted that the company is open to accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment in the future. During the company’s fourth-quarter earn...
BitMEX Launches ‘Decade of BitMEX’ Global Campaign With $1M Prize Pool BitMEX, the OG crypto derivatives exchange, announced Monday the launch of “Decade of BitMEX,” a global campaign featuring a $1 million prize pool to celebrate its 10-year anniversary. New users will...
Scientific Games Renews Popular SLINGO License Scientific Games announced Tuesday the renewal of the global lottery company’s licensing agreement with Gaming Realms for the iconic SLINGO brand, continuing the exclusive partnership for five more ye...
Is Cloudbet a safe crypto sports betting site? Cloudbet is a well-established crypto-only online betting platform that has existed since 2013. Their all-in-one betting platform features casino games, sports, and esports services to wager on. The c...
Mississippi Unlikely To File Online Sports Betting Bill In 2025 Mississippi lawmakers currently have no plans to file a legislative bill expanding regulation to include online gambling. Sen. David Blount, the Senate Gaming Committee Chairman and supporter of Missi...
NBA 2K Joins Genius Sports For NBA Cup Alternate Broadcast Basketball fans will get a taste of the new NBA 2K alternate broadcast on TNT during the knockout stages of the 2024 Emirates NBA Cup. While TNT will carry the primary broadcast, new NBA 2K25 DataCast...
Miami Heat Joins Hard Rock Bet’s Growing List of Sports Partnerships Florida’s sole legal sportsbook, Hard Rock Bet, has announced a partnership with the Miami Heat that will make it the Heat’s official sportsbook. In a release, both parties revealed the partnership wo...
Iggy Azalea unveils new online casino ‘Motherland’ Unveiled at Azalea’s “Motherland Rodeo” event at Solana Breakpoint in Singapore, the Motherland casino is tipped to go live in November. Motherland will offer the typical suite of online gambling acti...
Crypto betting firm Stake secures naming rights to Sauber’s F1 Team Cryptocurrency casino and betting platform Stake will feature prominently in the next two years of Formula 1 after securing naming rights to Sauber’s F1 car. The firm takes over from Alfa Romeo, which...
Crypto casino Stake reopens withdrawals just 5 hours after $41M hack Crypto betting platform Stake has reopened deposits and withdrawals and resumed services for users only five hours after the platform was hacked to the tune of $41.3 million, blockchain security firms...
Metaverse casino served emergency cease and desist to halt NFT sales A metaverse casino has been hit with simultaneous cease-and-desist orders from four state enforcement bodies across the United States, who have deemed the firm’s nonfungible tokens (NFTs) to be unregi...
5 state regulators allege organization is tied to Russia, scamming users using metaverse casino Authorities in the U.S. states of Alabama, Kentucky, New Jersey, Texas and Wisconsin have filed enforcement actions against the Flamingo Casino Club for allegedly perpetrating a scam through nonfungib...
Texas regulators order virtual casino to stop selling NFTs A virtual, Cyprus-registered casino, Sand Vegas Casino Club, faced an emergency cease and desist order from Texas and Alabama state securities regulators. The company is ordered to “stop a fraudulent ...
Maduro Announces Crypto Casino in Support of Petro and Public Nicolas Maduro, president of Venezuela, announced on Friday the opening of a new crypto-run casino in a battered country where betting halls have all but gone extinct. A casino for relief Maduro said ...