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Online gaming, betting and casinos are fairly common in the clearnet. But there are a couple of interesting TOR hidden services in this area as well. In part 1, let’s do a quick introduction of what’s available by giving you some examples of whats out there. Each week we’ll focus on each of these services in more detail.
Online Casinos
Nothing new here. These are basically online gaming sites hosted in TOR (some have counterparts in clearnet). I do feel that most of these are either owned or operated by a single operator.
Fixed Matches / Sportsbooks
There seems to be a lot of these here in the darknet. Basically they sell winning bets. Always be wary of these as most of them are scams. I would recommend to refrain from it altogether. But here’s one that may be interesting from a research perspective:
BitCoin Games
There are variations of bitcoin gambling games. We’ll delve on this on a later post. There’s Bitcoin Same an Diff games as well as Lottery games among others. Lottery games were once a bit more prevalent but much less nowadays. Here’s some non-lottery games that you can check out:
Since this is a pretty large topic, we’ll go through each one in more detail. How the service works, the mechanics, payment schemes and the likes.