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Online Sports Betting Gets A Super Bowl Workout

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5), details emerged about the success and failure of the new online sports betting regime in the U.S. million worth of wages with legal New Jersey sportsbook operators, but that gambling operators lost $4.6 million worth of wages with legal New Jersey sportsbook operators, but that gambling operators lost $4.6

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Opening Bets: MGM Deals Foreshadow New Gambling Culture

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Supreme Court struck down state bans on sports betting, MGM Resorts International has signed deals with the NBA and other operations that could mark the first chapter of the country’s new sports and gambling culture. which owns and operates two dozen gambling properties in seven states, including Nevada and Louisiana.

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Uber of X: greenRush is The Uber of Cannabis

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After it became illegal in the United States through the Marihuana Tax Act of 1937, the business of selling cannabis went mostly underground. One of their biggest ventures was an online platform aggregating New Years Eve parties across the globe. We are the “Amazon” of Cannabis, the largest online marketplace in the world.

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Can Legal Pot Thrive With Closed-Loop Payments?

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The latest example of that, a closed-loop payments effort in Nevada, comes amid fresh signs of significant revenue growth for this nascent part of legitimate commerce. Under the program, the Nevada state treasurer’s office will “set up a three-year pilot program” to ease the payments situation for the local cannabis industry.

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