{"id":27429,"date":"2022-08-29T14:18:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=27429"},"modified":"2022-08-29T14:18:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T14:18:43","slug":"the-metaverse-casino-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/?p=27429","title":{"rendered":"The Metaverse Casino That Wasn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Hodder explains that because ICE Poker is a peer-to-peer game, where there is no \u201chouse\u201d that always wins, \u201cthe decentralized nature moves the legal issues away from the appearance of gambling.\u201d And the focus on skill matters. \u201cIf the ability to win depends on chance or luck, it&#8217;s more likely to be considered gambling,\u201d says Hodder, \u201cwhereas if the outcome depends entirely on the user&#8217;s skill and abilities as a player, it&#8217;s less likely to be considered as gambling.\u201d (The counter-argument, I imagine, is that buying the wearable itself counts as a kind of \u201cante,\u201d and the real gamble is that you\u2019ll earn enough from the game to recoup the cost of the NFT. Then again, the extent of my legal background is watching \u201cShe Hulk.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/layer2\/sinweek\/2022\/08\/29\/the-metaverse-casino-that-wasnt\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hodder explains that because ICE Poker is a peer-to-peer game, where there is no \u201chouse\u201d that always wins, \u201cthe decentralized nature moves the legal issues away from the appearance of gambling.\u201d And the focus on skill matters. \u201cIf the ability to win depends on chance or luck, it&#8217;s more likely to be considered gambling,\u201d says [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[39],"tags":[19,67,7800],"class_list":["post-27429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ico","tag-casino","tag-metaverse","tag-wasnt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/6PUMERCNTZCHNJALK5DEFPQ6AI.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27431,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27429\/revisions\/27431"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/egrowonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}