Business Idea- Micro Sports Betting with Sats
51 sats \ 7 comments \ @grayruby 1 Dec 2022 bitcoin
I am a sports fan, especially MLB and NFL, but I am not a gambler. I know sports betting apps and sites are very popular now (maybe having a moment like poker did). I am surprised no one has created a sports betting with sats service.
I have used the lightning roulette application and I know there is a lightning poker but not aware of any lightning sports betting. I think this could be popular especially since you have the ability to do micro betting with sats.
Hopefully someone will take this idea and run with it. I will take Buffalo -3.5 for 100 sats if anyone is interested.
Cheers, GR
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198 sats \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 1 Dec 2022
I think this can be done with DLC's on suredbits, they did say they are working to support LN in the future
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @NakamotoSatoshi 2 Dec 2022
Try bc game
They already have lightning deposit enabled...they are called sats in there.
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10 sats \ 1 reply \ @Condetiv 1 Dec 2022
Nice idea! What about betting with your friends and the winner of each week gets the sats
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 1 Dec 2022
Good idea
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zeRealSchlausKwab 1 Dec 2022
Sports betting came to my mind too but i would imagine automation would be a pain in the arse. Unless you have godlike web scraping skills to get event data in a watertight way.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @VzxPLnHqr 1 Dec 2022
There has been some talk recently about making discreet log contracts 1 work over lightning. I think right now it is all on-chain. A micro sports betting website like you suggested would be a good usecase.
Footnotes
  1. https://suredbits.com/ is a company that builds some software around descreet log contracts. They also have some good blog articles explaining the concept. ↩
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 1 Dec 2022
Great idea! I just started messing around with LN roulette and LN blackjack. It's fun. I'm not a crazy gambler, but it's nice to place micro wagers just for fun.
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