The white paper is actually quite an entertaining read. The problem is how much of it will in actuality turn into reality, especially with the fish commonly racking their fishy brains with the deposit procedure.
The market research I did shows that not even a 1/10 of a percent converted to crypto poker and it seems to be on a decline. Poker players laughed at anonymous online poker and it failed to get players despite endless freerolls on every site. Free money and nobody is buying. During the poker bust there was deep hatred for the dollar and scared americans who didn't want to go to jail or have their accounts frozen and even during these times it flopped. That was the height of it about 5 years ago. There isn't even a number to throw out you because most crypto poker sites closed down.
Seals has 3 half tables going right now. There is an embarrassing 6 people playing on the entire site.
Coinpoker had about 30 when I logged on last night, this appears to be the last 30 people that left seals so the market hasn't grown, just shifted to where more freerolls are, which isn't exactly a working business. There are hundreds in the freerolls but but these are not real customers and don't convert to profits, just leeches looking for pennies. When the freeroll gets out the cash tables pickup for about 10 minutes until everyone spends the 50 cents and leaves. The site is mostly non english speaking. Lots of latinos, europeans and a small lot of westerners, even indian people are playing here which I rarely ever see online. It's clearly the people from this forum and ex seals along with the small miners and promoters who have $2 in ethereum and want to get rich.
I'm looking at the freerolls, pretty funny but what would you expect from the magicians that scour this site.
I tend to agree with this, I have a lot of online poker experience dating back to full tilt, poker stars ect ect... I lived through the department of justice seizure of full tilt and witnessed a lot of people getting their money lost or frozen by full tilt. Ever since then online poker has never been the same.
I agree that almost all attempts at creating a crypto related poker room has failed, despite all those bot riddled freerolls that did nothing but liquidate their capital. When betcoin shutdown it was a real indicator that the poker world just is not ready or interested in a crypto related room....which honestly is a real shame because if done right a blockchain based room could prevent what happened with full tilt.
The only room that seems to be doing ok is Nitrogen, which is more of a sports betting site