There are huge crypto projects out there 3 yrs old with no working software whatsoever (see REP and the like)...
So I would give this 6-12 months before passing judgement... and watch what the guys at 2+2 think.
Crypto is the Millennials Financial System and the entire world will adapt to crypto or get left behind...
And 20 something poker players are extremely well equipped to adopt crypto...
If Americans to too fucking soft and lazy then India will be the biggest democratic superpower in 20 years.
I followed this space since bitcoin was $200. The projects you speak of have been shown to be a fraud or the wet dream of loser developers. I said that they would move to ICO's and tokens. I was right,, all have turned to public funding and all have failed to produce even a working game.
In 2015, pokereum said, just 5 days to launch. Its' now 2018 and still says 5 days for the demo. It's been nearly 3 years of fund raising, how can anyone stand behind people when they don't even know what they're talking about.
The play in this game is to constantly make future promises and move at extremely low speeds, even tough crypto poker ads nothing new except a funding mechanics thats actually easier to implement than fiat. People are pretending poker has to be re written here, or that decentralized poker can even work. It can't because its slow as molasseses and requires 10 times the bandwith and power of running a central site.
All of the operators in this space are playing the players, nobody should be investing in crypto poker because its been rejected hard and fast by everyone, only a few people play this game, those are people who don't want 10 page terms and agreements, people who don't wish to link up their credit cards and personal information.
Please prove me wrong, you can't find 100 players worldwide who play crypto currency poker.
acebusters = 0 players
SWC = 3-5 players
coinpoker = 10-20 players
nitrogen = 6 tables nearly empty
flitzka poker = closed
satoshi = closed
pokereum = never opened, lying for 3 years
virtue poker = never opened, asking for ICO money , extremely skeptical.
And you guys still keep feeding people that the world is moving to blockchain, and so is poker and you better get it now or be left behind. You could not be any more wrong.