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It's always the lowest common denominator you need to attract to a betting platform not the shrewdies. I'm sure you probably know plenty of people who find, or assume, Betfair is too complicated, they're the people I want to bet against. Using a browser is one thing but all that hassle just to fund an account is going to put people off. Plus I'm not sure the man in the street will no regulations as a good thing. If all the dealers stop using the fruities to clean their cash maybe I'll get onboard.
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It is going to, you’re right. At the moment.spreadbetting wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:05 pmUsing a browser is one thing but all that hassle just to fund an account is going to put people off.
But perhaps 1-2 years from now there will be ways to deposit and bet seamlessly on this blockchain: this has the potential of attracting loads of players from all over the world.
Also, some big bookmakers could move away from their traditional odds making business and instead operating Wagerr nodes and creating neat interfaces for players to bet on this blockchain.
If these things happen, WGR tokens that today cost less than $1 could be worth $50+.
So, the Wagerr project is both a promising betting/exchange platform, but also a potentially good investment. A bit like buying a big plot of desert in Dubai 50 years ago.
Or investing in the dot-com boom...northbound wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:26 pmSo, the Wagerr project is both a promising betting/exchange platform, but also a potentially good investment. A bit like buying a big plot of desert in Dubai 50 years ago.
Will the 2-3% commission be settled on your net position in the market, or on each bet you place?
I’m guessing it’ll be on each bet you place since every transaction needs to be paid for to be verified by the blockchain. This would make trading close to impossible. On Betfair, if I have a winning bet and a losing bet of equal value then I pay nothing. Or am wrong?
I also have concerns about latency. For something like horse racing, you need transaction confirmation times in the low 100ms to be able to do what we do now on Betfair. That’s very unlikely to be achievable in a decentralised distributed system. Or otherwise you’ll need a localised intermediary exchange but then that wipes out much of the point of the whole thing.
I’m guessing it’ll be on each bet you place since every transaction needs to be paid for to be verified by the blockchain. This would make trading close to impossible. On Betfair, if I have a winning bet and a losing bet of equal value then I pay nothing. Or am wrong?
I also have concerns about latency. For something like horse racing, you need transaction confirmation times in the low 100ms to be able to do what we do now on Betfair. That’s very unlikely to be achievable in a decentralised distributed system. Or otherwise you’ll need a localised intermediary exchange but then that wipes out much of the point of the whole thing.
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Amazon, Google and eBay were founded during the dot-com boom.LinusP wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:53 pmOr investing in the dot-com boom...northbound wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2018 12:26 pmSo, the Wagerr project is both a promising betting/exchange platform, but also a potentially good investment. A bit like buying a big plot of desert in Dubai 50 years ago.
But it’s also true that I would never have invested a big chunk of my saving on either at the time.
And neither I would now on Wagerr. However I’d definitely invest a small, speculative chunk.
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Had a look at the site and vids, god knows who they're trying to attract on board. Seems the only real decision they've made is to jump on the blockchain bandwagon and hope for the best.
If you bought it three months ago. People were buying it at 15k and 20k too, its all relative