Only last month we wrote about the European Parliament’s Economic Committee (EESC) discussing the future of Bitcoin. This month, the EC came forward with a plan detailing changes to its Anti-Money Laundering Directive in regards to the digital currency, claiming that the amendments are designed to curb terrorist funding. According to online gambling news, Europol, Europe’s version of Interpol, […]
The first week of February this year was pretty eventful with lots of cool online gambling news and promos to go around. Every week we’ll bring new stuff for you to enjoy, so stay tuned for fresh Hits ‘n Folds items! Hits – Online Gambling News Experience Gambling in New Orleans (Image credit: Passport Stamps) […]
Amaya Gaming’s shares have increased nearly 30% after the chairman of the company – David Baazov – announced that he wants to take the business private in an all-cash $2.8-billion deal. According to Baazov’s statement released on Monday, in which he said, he is “in discussions” with an unnamed group of investors, with whom he intends […]
Poker in Puerto Rico is sometimes played under really weird circumstances. Imagine you are sitting in a table next to an embalmed dead body to play poker! Well, it actually happened in Puerto Rico when the family members of a deceased 31-year-old man’s family got his body embalmed and made him sit at a poker […]
The Chinese government has started prosecuting its mainland citizens who access online content that is created beyond the country’s borders. Chinese police have already turned mobile connectivity off for some Xinjiang residents, who use Virtual Private Network (VPN) software for avoiding Chinese internet filters. Those people were using foreign messaging apps and software for accessing […]
Max Whitehouse, a 19-year-old British teenager has received 12 months prison sentence along with a £200 fine on Friday, on charge of his online assault against an unnamed European gambling site. Nottingham Crown Court Judge gave him this sentence for launching a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack against the site during early 2014. After […]
The Malaysian Home Ministry is planning to improve their current laws for tackling pervasive operations of online gambling in Malaysia. Archaic laws, which come under the jurisdiction of a number of ministries, are giving police a hard time in curbing these activities, according to Deputy Home Minister Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed. “The police are facing […]
The government of Netherlands is going to permit online sports gambling, but bar match fixing by strict rules. This decision followed from last year’s legislative proposal on online sports gambling regulation. Betting on sporting events via the state-owned De Lotto and on ongoing matches was the only form of gambling allowed for the Dutch till […]
Ireland’s advertising watchdog put official ban on one of Irish betting operator Paddy Power’s adverts that allegedly mocked the current refugee crisis in Europe. The advertisement showed some sports stars representing Great Britain on the side of a lorry that was sent through the English port of Dover to the French port of Calais and […]
Two companies in Netherlands faced the largest ever fine in the country, amounting to almost half a million Euros, for illegally operating a website. This record fine is issued by Dutch national gaming regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA). The website called Redslots was using a Dutch language service, demonstrating a Dutch flag and promoting a welcome bonus […]
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