Things that happened on a date: regulator decisions, licence changes, frozen funds, operator policy shifts.
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On Thursday 29 October, between 16:20 and 17:04 New York time, billions of dollars walked out of wallets that Etherscan labels as Binance hot wallets. Binance still has not used the word hack. Its founder did, within the hour. Tether, Circle and Ripple froze about $2.5 billion between them before most people had finished reading […]
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In the space of a week, the largest crypto casino in the world was shut out of two countries. Nigerian regulators declared Stake illegal across Lagos and the states aligned with them on 10 September. Around the same days, Stake switched off its own site for players in Ireland after the new Irish regulator came […]
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Brazil spent two years building a licensed online gambling market. It opened on 1 January 2025, it collects tax, and it has a regulator. Now the government is drafting an order that would ban online casino games inside it, and the president has said out loud that his personal position is to end betting altogether. […]
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You withdraw your winnings to your own wallet. A few days later you send them to an exchange to cash out, and the deposit sits in review, or the account gets a questionnaire, or in the worst case the coins stop moving entirely. Nothing you did was illegal. The problem is where the coins had […]
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On 22 September an international investigation published what the Curacao Gaming Authority’s public register never shows: who actually owns the casinos, and what the regulator wrote down before it stamped the licence. The files come from the authority’s own licensing portal. They cover roughly 650 licensed firms, about 800 owners and more than 8,000 casino […]
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Every casino on this site holds a Curaçao licence. This month all of them hit a deadline that changes how crypto moves through a cashier, and almost none of them will announce it. The Curaçao Gaming Authority published a crypto policy guideline for B2C licensees in June. It runs to eleven pages and covers the […]
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On Monday two Thai businessmen filed suit against Tether in the Southern District of New York. They say the company froze roughly $42.4 million of their USDT across ten Ethereum addresses, and that it did so at the informal request of a Homeland Security Investigations agent, with no warrant and no court order behind it. […]
