A new era in online gambling is coming, and a new ICO to invest in, gone are the times when fiat currency was all we had.
There has been a recent rise in crypto currency-based betting services to meet the demand of a market that prefers its use over fiat currency. While popular, these escrow services follow an unfavourable trend of utilizing cryptocurrency in a centralized manner, creating counter party risk that did not previously exist. This occurs as users entrust the ownership of their cryptocurrency to services which are susceptible to hacks and leave little recourse to victims of theft. We propose a sports betting exchange which solves this issue by means of decentralization, removing central points of failure to allow the use of cryptocurrency without counter party risk. A sports betting exchange is a marketplace for the trade of sporting outcomes. Unlike a traditional sports betting platform, a sports betting exchange eliminates the need for a central bookkeeper and instead enables users to place bets against one another. This paper details Block Sports, a decentralized sports betting exchan...