So my next question.. How are they still operating on the open web?
Lol, how does everything else operate on the open web? Torrent sites, warez sites etc etc. Not all things are illegal everywhere. Some countries ban gambling and porn, but people can freely view them online. Usually the sites are hosted in countries with lax preferences on this or outside the jurisdiction of the certain law enforcement agencies that would take them down. If they were hosted in the US they likely would get taken down pretty fast.
Good point, got any examples of the countries with laid back gambling laws?
Just find out where all the bitcoin gambling sites are hosted haha. Are you thinking of making one? I do think that they'll start cracking down on them eventually regardless of where they're hosted.
Gambling's not for me, but know how restricted and regulated the UK market is, made me ask the question
So my next question.. How are they still operating on the open web?
Lol, how does everything else operate on the open web? Torrent sites, warez sites etc etc. Not all things are illegal everywhere. Some countries ban gambling and porn, but people can freely view them online. Usually the sites are hosted in countries with lax preferences on this or outside the jurisdiction of the certain law enforcement agencies that would take them down. If they were hosted in the US they likely would get taken down pretty fast.
Good point, got any examples of the countries with laid back gambling laws?
Just find out where all the bitcoin gambling sites are hosted haha. Are you thinking of making one? I do think that they'll start cracking down on them eventually regardless of where they're hosted.
UK actually has already started getting strict towards these gambling sites that offer their services to UK customers. Since these sites would generate a large amount of revenue to UK for being licensed so they are actually likely to target these hosting sites and shut down these gambling sites.
I think most countries would want to take up this approach but like mentioned earlier, it's the enforcement that kills them. If the sites are hosted offshore and used in conjunction with BTC, its a tough nut to crack. Whether you have visited the sites is obviously going to be an easy one to figure out but a suspicion is suspicion and nothing else.
So my next question.. How are they still operating on the open web?
Much of the Gambling sites are hosted Off shore or are using Anonymous Hosting.
these days hosting with bitcoin is easily available they just grab them and Start running their sites.
Moreover Few countries have ban their users From Gambling like I see williamhills not Operating in US , so the people there are using Proxy.
Ahhh, the power of the proxy
