Bitcoin 2026 speaker Alex Leishman warned in his Bitcoin 2026 talk that modern finance is shifting toward a gambling-like system, arguing that rising costs and stagnant wages are pushing people toward prediction markets.
New York Attorney General Letitia James has sued Coinbase and Gemini, alleging their prediction market platforms constitute illegal gambling operations.
THNDR Games popularized the notion of earning bitcoin for playing games. Now, the company is streamlining the payment infrastructure for virtual casinos and online sports betting platforms using the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Recently, WeChat Payment has revised the “WeChat Agreement for Payment Service,” which involves the control and regulation of illegal transactions, including cryptocurrency transactions.