Bitcoin enables so much experimentation but where the f is it? I've recently gotten back into playing poker it's a great game. But the online poker market is lackluster because each company is managing it all. The server, the client implementation, security, kyc aml and bank transfers, customer service and none of it seems interoperable. So the resources are stretched thin for each poker provider. And as result we get barebones poker clients with not much qol. But what if you started a poker protocol, it handles the games, tournaments sign-ups, balances, and then casinos could hook up to it, and players could use any client they wanted and they would maybe be developed in an open source way. But this doesn't seem to be happening atm. even tho it seems it would be better for everyone. It could start with bitcoin as a base currency?
It takes experimentation, trials and errors and a LOT of time to develop quality UX/UI on top of something so new as bitcoin
Remember the web in the early 90s? I was there (gosh I'm old) and it's nothing compared to what we have today. Give the space its time and support interesting and genuine projects
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Well, at least there is https://blockchain.poker/ 😉
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that has potential. most people are using bitcon cash tho which is obvious considering BTC on-chain fees are higher than blinds on most tables :) when LN? :)
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IDK about bitcoin but in monero we have a weekly poker night (22:00 UTC) operated by /biz/ users over tor, IDK I've never tried it though:
It's a good idea to implement in bitcoin I guess especially now that there's lightning. The problem is that there isn't a lot of plausible deniability, but maybe some multisig magic could make it work.
If someone figures out how to do it with provable fairness, maybe you could advertise it as a bitcoin community event.
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Funnily enough I did see a Lightning-based poker site posted on SN a few days ago... It didn't seem to be too active however.
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