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The Online Gambling Industry

A series of 40+ articles detailing the rise of  a 75 billion dollar industry.

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Legal

The Paperwork – Jurisdictions, Legal and Compliance Legal by Ian Sherrington November 2024 Series – The Online Gambling Industry Read Article Legal Summary In the 1990s, e-commerce became a thing. Before that, government control on goods and services was regulated by the location of a business; the rules a business had to follow, as well as the taxes paid, were both set by local and national laws, based on where the company was registered. Then, the internet began to connect people and businesses together, fundamentally and anonymously. Physical locations were tricky to establish. Rules and regulations, based on location, no…

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Interview with Dr Aftab Rizvi – The First Certification

Interview with Dr Aftab Rizvi Gaming Associates The First Certification by Ian Sherrington Series – The Online Gambling Industry Part 2- The Paperwork, Jurisdictions, Legal and Compliance Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of And our friends at Series Introduction The Online Gambling Industry A Series of Articles Ian Sherrington, July 2024 In 1996, a small sportsbook in Austria accepted the world’s first online sports bet: a $50 gamble that Tottenham Hotspur would beat Hereford United in a third round FA Cup replay. Since then, the rise of the online gaming industry has been meteoric. From humble beginnings,…

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The Jurisdictions

The Paperwork, Jurisdictions, Legal and Compliance The Jurisdictions By Ian Sherrington, September 2024 Part 1 of Article 3 in the series The Online Gambling Industry Read Article The Jurisdictions In this article I will take a look at the early online gambling jurisdictions of Antigua, Curaçao, The Kahnawake, Costa Rica, Vanuatu and Belize. Along the way, I ask, Why did the “Big Four” casino software companies all start in Antigua? And, which was the first real online gambling jurisdiction? I’ll try to answer these questions and more! Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of And our friends at…

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Interview with Henrick Sandin, Boss Media

Interview with Henrick Sandin,Boss Media By Ian Sherrington, September 2024 Article 2A in the series of articles The Online Gambling Industry Revised 8th September 2024. Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of And our friends at Series Introduction The Online Gambling Industry A Series of Articles Ian Sherrington, July 2024 In 1996, a small sportsbook in Austria accepted the world’s first online sports bet: a $50 gamble that Tottenham Hotspur would beat Hereford United in a third round FA Cup replay. Since then, the rise of the online gaming industry has been meteoric. From humble beginnings, in seedy…

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How the Online Gambling Industry Started

How the Online Gambling Industry Started Article 1 in the series of articles The Online Gambling Industry Ian Sherrington, July 2024 Read Article Brought to you with the assistance of Series Introduction The Online Gambling Industry A Series of Articles Ian Sherrington, July 2024 In 1996, a small sportsbook in Austria accepted the world’s first online sports bet: a $50 gamble that Tottenham Hotspur would beat Hereford United in a third round FA Cup replay. Since then, the rise of the online gaming industry has been meteoric. From humble beginnings, in seedy apartments and dimly lit basements, visionaries and programmers…

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The Online Gambling Industry

Introducing a series chronicling the rapid rise of a 75 billion dollar industry. Ian Sherrington has been working in online gambling since its inception — the early 1990s. In just 30 years, it has gone from basements to board rooms, rapidly evolving with no end in sight. Now, his series of 40+ articles will detail every step of online gambling’s rise, with insights from the people who made it happen. Countless innovations have catapulted the industry. From the moment Sherrington and his team received the very first online sports bet, various services and casinos have developed to form a complex…

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I have a plan..

I have a plan.. After a half century of creating betting systems (plus a few other things in between), I think it’s time to write my thoughts on how it’s going so far. I’m Ian Sherrington, older but not necessarily wiser. I’m getting my head out of programming and having a stab at writing articles once again. If you kinda know me then I might have mentioned to you that I created the very first online sportsbook for Intertops way back in 1996 and was there when the industry just started and it all happened. I’ve had the pleasure (mostly..)…

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AI Football Match Analysis

AI Next Football Match Analysis I took a few days to see if I could combine real time sports data and them ask AI what the predictions are. Simply enter a football team name and get the predictions! Check the app here https://ai.crownstar.com Open

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SiGMA Magazine

The nice folks at SiGMA magazine have published a few of my articles in the latest magazine. Please check pages 54 to 71!

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Intertops 1998 Website is still alive!

While investigating the Internet archive, I found this amazing site that by using some clever emulation, the 1998 version of the Intertops website is still available and you can still interact with it! From Jan 17th 1996, Intertops has run a good service. Initially running with my software, Intertops has long since moved on to…

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Blokslot

Web3.. No website.. No database.. All public resources This example pure blockchain slot still consists of the two fundamental components, the front end and the back end. In this case the front end HTML, Javascript and images are being served by a distributed file system call IPFS and the back end (that is the slot…

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Mahjong Article

From the book How to Win at Online Gambling. Edited by Mark Balestra MAHJONG! By Ian Sherrington The fascinating game of Mahjong has roots in Asia and has become one of the most widely played games throughout the world. Played by beginners and masters alike, it is based on an easily understood proposition (similar to…

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