article about the significance of poker to the history of crypto
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Good article. Covers a lot of points I honestly had no idea about and I’ve been around poker and crypto for ages. Was blown away learning about Satoshi trying to create his own decentralised poker platform.
I also had no idea it was Moncada and his team of ex poker players that are behind blockfolio. This article explains the correlation between poker and crypto well.
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Fascinating stuff. The screengrab of the bitcoin code that included stuff for showing poker tables and lobbies blew my mind a bit.
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The article seems generally nonsense as far as "history" goes, reads like "Ancient Alien Visitors" stuff................but
it does highlight the potential future for projects like Virtue Poker. I would look forward to more discussion from Dan.
By way of disclosure, I provided some consulting advice to Virtue a few years back , but have not kept up on their progress or current direction. I do know that some of the difficulty of running poker on a blockchain* has been lessened in theory with the advent of Lightning and whatever the counterpart for Etherium is called.
I am surprised the writer didn't bother to discuss SatoshiDice, which in mid-2013 accounted for 80% of blockchain transactions or Etherium or its White Paper, which expressly referred to blockchain gambling as a prospective use case.
(*A decentralized poker platform has been extensively discussed in this forum, paging Nooseknot ? Anyone interested in that discussion can probably find it by search.)
