this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2026
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A Boring Dystopia
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How is this legal
Crime is legal now
I hate that I was primed for a world with rules when there are none.
Well, you still have to follow the rules. Unless you want to get shot of put into a box for the rest of your life.
Always has been if you're rich.
Gambling.
It's disgusting but not necessarily illegal.
It's unrelated gambling to be specific. You can fix the results or have insider knowledge
Legally they are not betting against the house. People are betting against each other on if a certain event will happen, and the site takes a set percentage for facilitating the bets. This makes it legal under gambling laws in most US States.
It probably can't be stopped either at this point.
Assuming it was illegal, they could arrest the developers because they are earning money on it, but arresting them and taking the website down won't stop people from using it as it's smart contract based on a blockchain. The website is just the front end, the blockchain/smart contract is the backend.
So now you gotta go after the individuals using it, who could annonymize their funds through something like Tornado Cash, making it pretty hard to stop.
So if I opened a physical casino with let's say roulette without 00 but a commission charge to play it's legal?
No, roulette is still betting against the house. A more apt comparison is poker, the house has nothing to do with the outcome or the game and has no stakes in the winner or loser when legal. This is why many will either take a percentage of the pot to recoop the cost of facilitating the game and dealer, about 2% I think, or have a membership fee. In many states poker only card houses or card clubs are completely legal.
I bet you a dollar that the ratio of votes on your post will be some number by January 11th.
I bet you a dollar that President Trump will not live to see 2037.
We're just two people making bets here. Anyone want to sidebar on this action?
I'll make a bet on how many bets you get!