DISQUS

Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

Is this $1M coming from the VCs, I wonder? Sounds kinda desperate on the face of it.
Bill · 2 years ago

Also check out Blubet.com
Ilya Lichtenstein · 2 years ago

I don't see how the VCs could allow this. Investing $1 for every registered user is a terrible ROI- any good marketer will give you 10 users for $1!
Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

Agree. Maybe they calculate that the PR generated will be much greater. So far, they seem to be wrong though - we're the only blog I know of that covered it so far.
Yaniv · 2 years ago

Is this legal? I mean betting for money...
Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago

It's a British company, so it may be legal for them to host bets. But I think they could do with a few disclaimers/explanations about legality.
Jamie · 2 years ago

Just signed up, really like the idea and think it will be a winner in the office. Andrew, they actually block any payment from the US. In their payment rules they talk about 33 countries from which they accept money.
Andrew Unsworth · 2 years ago

Right right, saw that later. Sounds like they will do nicely and aggregate a large US database for when laws change in US.