Twelve Chinese ministries and commissions issued a joint communiqué “resolutely prohibiting” the selling of lottery tickets online and vowed that they will track down persons and entities that will attempt to circumvent the said prohibition.

The plan said that the Ministry of Culture and Tourism will police the “unauthorized use of online sales in online games,” banking officials will monitor “the provision of payment settlement services” to illegal online operators, while telecom operators will ”clean up the illegal information on the Internet” regarding illegal lottery. China initially permitted two companies to participate in an online sales ‘pilot program’ but the program was suspended in March 2015.

BitGuild CEO Jared Psigoda spoke with CalvinAyre.com’s Becky Liggero about how blockchain is going to disrupt the gaming industry.

The meeting, happening on August 30, will give Bitcoin BCH miners an opportunity to voice out their concerns on the issue of what should be the maximum block size pre-coded in a BCH full node implementation.

Two brokerages have reported that they expect the city’s gross gaming revenue to increase to between $3.22 and $3.27 billion in August.

MGM and Melco are wooing Osaka officials to get an integrated resort license which could translate to as much as $4 billion annually in gross gambling revenue for the chosen operator.

CalvinAyre.com’s Rafi Farber makes the case on why you can invest on NetEnt, considering that the Swedish market has one of the more favorable risk profiles today.

A Finnish teenager is now on trial after making 147 withdrawal requests from an online casino in Malta in just one month, allegedly getting €250,000.

Studio City International announced that its plan of having an IPO in the U.S. is still on the table, subject to favorable market conditions and clearance from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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