A Dead Heat is a tie between two or more outcomes in a betting contest with no method to determine an outright winner. The term dead heat comes from horse racing but today a dead heat most commonly occurs in… Continue Reading
Bitcoin betting is a key part of the bitcoin ecosystem. Since so many different bitcoin betting sites now exist, today, its impossible to say which bitcoin betting sites are the best. Even though there is no clear winner, this post… Continue Reading
The 2018 PGA Tour Championship is being held next week and I’m pretty excited to watch who wins the tournament, but also who wins the FedEx Cup $10 million bonus check! In this post I’ll describe how I created my… Continue Reading
I frequently get asked about how to trade crypto currencies. Aspiring traders see the daily swings in the bitcoin price and wonder whether they should take up trying to pick the highs and lows by trading. This post will describe… Continue Reading
Opening an account at QuadrigaCX is the best way for Canadians to buy and sell cryptocurrencies such as bitcoins, ethereum, and litecoin. If you are a Canadian who wants to begin trading or investing in cryptocurrencies on a safe Canadian based… Continue Reading
This post will describe how to use binary options to estimate the odds of a pari-mutuel pool. Friends of mine run a fantasy sports site called CoinRoster where they host pari-mutuel pools on a variety of topics including the bitcoin… Continue Reading
Consider an underlying price of 918. You are presented with the choice of buying or selling a European binary call option with 1 day till expiration and a strike price of 918 (i.e. at the money). The 30 day historical volatility… Continue Reading
Bitcoin gambling is still in its infancy, and there are many new innovative competitors emerging. Below is a review of three bitcoin gambling platforms that provide betting on events. Bitbet.us Bitbet.us offers pari-mutuel markets on a range of topics including politics,… Continue Reading
Recently, Bob Dancer posted a blog that briefly reviews US Fantasy, which is a pari-mutuel based fantasy sports product currently being offered in Nevada. Bob Dancer touches on two major areas where US Fantasy should improve. First, there is no app… Continue Reading
Back at the dawn of Web 2.0, concepts of wikinomics and user generated networks like wikipedia were just emerging. I was very interested in these concepts. A platform called InTrade came into existence and I started making markets on this… Continue Reading
