Topic: DirectBet – LIVE Sportsbook & Racebook. Now Accepting Ether ! - page 249. (Read 759883 times)

It was a few months ago when I saw this information but a friend who is working on some investigative journalism about crypto betting and regulatory compliance discovered that Directbet had at least some servers hosted in a colo facility in the UK.  This might not be the case any more but I expect that any licensed bookmakers in the UK would be extremely hostile towards an unregulated company providing a service to the UK gambling market.  Perhaps the authorities in the UK have started to crack down on unregulated gambling sites.

The next few years are going to be very interesting for the crypto gambling industry. Directbet claim to be based in Costa Rica which has turned a blind eye to unregulated and unlicensed gambling for years but even Costa Rica is starting to turn the screw albeit very slowly.    

I guess there will always be regulatory and tax havens but I expect that the sands will be shifting quite rapidly in the near future.  After all, the online gambling industry in the UK alone is worth £6.2bn per year.  The big players in the industry will want to protect their assets.  

EDIT:  I can understand outrage about the recent reminders to betting companies about UK law but regulation of gambling is there for a reason.  Directbet have always been more than reasonable and professional when dealing with me despite being at times a very demanding customer but the bottom line is that they remain an unregulated, unaudited and unidentified entity.  Even if Directbet might be trusted, many other services might not be trustable.

Seems it is indeed true.
I just read this on another thread  https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.11628622


It does seem they have locked out UK customers primarily for this reason.
I can't however find any news about this online.

Cant find any official news regarding this either. Had a search on google and it lead me to a UK government gambling commision but it didnt show any announcement regarding this either ( check it here , or perhaps Im on the wrong page http://www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk/Home.aspx ). Checked their official twitter as well but I found nothing regarding this

The only thing that I found will be from Tonyq post's as well

Yes its true . even I can't login using my UK based Ip. Had to use tor .

Are you sure about this ? I haven't ever since an announcement about this before. I don't think UK has very strict laws for this when it comes to sportsbooks . US would probably be the first country to be blocked if they did.

Nope, and I doubt any of the bitcoin sportsbooks are licensed.

They could be doing it for their own safety precautions . The same thing happened to PrimeDice and fastbet where as they dont accept deposits from US based players anymore despite that both arent located in US . Reason for this would be simple that as an online gambling sites there will be a high risk if you dont comply to these regulations especially if you are not a licensed sportsbook ( We might see more of sportsbook sites to block UK IPs soon )

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I seems to have missed this information, is Directbet a licensed sportsbook?

Can you please explain why you can no longer accept bets from UK IP addresses?

According to our records we did book bets on New York Mets both before and during the game.

Betting on a particular selection might be suspended from time to time, as apparently was the case here. I'm sorry for the inconvenience caused.

I just wanted to say that DirectBet is an unethical operation / borderline scam.

As an example they offered live betting on the Toronto Blue Jays / New York Mets game tonight but only accepted bets on Toronto during the game!!! I wanted to bet on the Mets for over an hour during the game and continuously reloaded the page but they never once accepted bets on the winning side.

BTCWagering is a Bitcoin sports player advocate site for over a year and we are working on a new system and interface to rate all of the operations out there. We will most certainly putting in the work to expose DB for what they are - unscrupulous money-grabbers.

Attached is a screen shot of what I described tonight.

But if that is the case then why did they accept my bets last week and not this week? Will they still pay the bets out if any of them win? I don't understand what the recent legality change is as there is no explanation for it.

some countries have legalities about cryptocurrency, like PrimeDice which is recently blocked in the US

UK... but I don't see why it should matter or why I should even have to give this information... I thought the point of cryptocurrency was for anonymous transaction for everyone. 

where are you from mate? i got no problem on my end

I used the site for a while with no problems but I now keep getting this message when I try to place a bet:


I don't understand what is going on or why this is happening to me.

I looked up Rules and Help and contacted support but no answers there.

 

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most of the time the result is instant, but sometimes it took minutes before the dice will be rolled

It should be instant.

Can you please PM me the ID of the bet that took 2 minutes to roll the dice ? Thanks.

yeh it a pain in the ass

You mean the bet is pending for 2 minutes?  I think its just the server being busy