Bitcoin Users Bypass Online Gambling Ban

Bitcoin Users Bypass Online Gambling Ban - Reason 24/7

reason.com 06 Feb '13, 9pm

Bitcoin Users Bypass Online Gambling Ban

The federal government says online gambling is a no-no. In the last few years, the Justice Department has made it very clear: You can't just open up an offshore casino online and start taking bets using actual money from the United States. But last year, a couple of entrepreneurs asked themselves — what if you were only betting with Bitcoin? "What Bitcoin does is that it totally circumvents that," says Jerry Brito, who studies the currency as part of his work as a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. "There is no Bitcoin company, there's no Bitcoin building that regulators can get their hands on. It's basically cash."

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