Philippines is one of the most crypto friendly countries around the Southeast Asia, I'm sure that it's just a matter of time when operators of this so called "Sabong" would venture and accept
BTC as payment scheme.
I doubt that. Philippines might be crypto friendly, but the cockfighting peeps may not. Most of these people are clever, they want "money down" first attitude. So they'll probably prefer fiat than Bitcoin, and most of them probably still dont have any idea how Bitcoin works. Might not work for the mediocre cockfighting gamblers, but will consider to those big time gamblers who place huge bet every match, where usually are those government officials and businessmen.
I believed you underestimated the understanding level of Philippines in terms of Bitcoin uses and gambling (cock fighting) because the number of Bitcoin users there are actually huge and we have big project numbers of crypto related project which was launched there.
I didnt, Im spitting facts here. At least not in your area, but here where I am located, most of the people who gambles with cockfighting via televised match really prefer fiat than other currency.
My brother in law whos an addict in terms of cock fighting always bet in cockpits, televised match, and sometimes online. I asked him about betting with cryptos and he said, " most of us dont want to complicate the way we bet, we always prefer fiat."
I know that you also know that there are still a huge percentage of the population in the Philippines who only hear about Bitcoin, but didnt know even the very basic fundamentals. Not because we lack of tools to navigate the technology, but because they arent just interested.
Well, I also hope that everyday we get progress on Bitcoin adoption in our country, and hope that your crypto related projects now and in the future will be a huge success.