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You don't even need to go back that far: e-gold, liberty reserve. Fun fact, bitcoin client had a poker lobby in it, and it was announced mere weeks after Liber
by upupandup 4y ago
You don't even need to go back that far: e-gold, liberty reserve.
Fun fact, bitcoin client had a poker lobby in it, and it was announced mere weeks after Liberty Reserve court ruling jailing its founder for 20 to life for money laundering.
Individual or groups behind bitcoin were watching that Liberty Reserve trial very very closely and e-gold/liberty reserve was very popular amongst the online poker industry ;)
There's many more interesting facts you can discover but I won't spoil them.
- deadbunny 4y ago[citation needed]
- upupandup 4y agoyou know how to use google right?
- deadbunny 4y agoYep and I can't find any reference to the bitcoin core client ever having anything to do with poker.
- IncRnd 4y agoIt did. https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src/uibase.cpp https://github.com/trottier/original-bitcoin/blob/master/src... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830211 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28830211
- deadbunny 4y agoThanks. Looks like it was more GUI code copied from something else then removed a few commits later rather than it actually having a "poker lobby" feature as implied though.
- upupandup 4y agoYou better work on your Google skills more