January 13, 2019

Our Man At CES 2019 – Part One: Finding Crypto

Where better to check out all the latest crypto-tech than the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Actually, as it turned out, finding crypto at CES wasn’t as easy as first expected.

Technology Unveiled at CES 2019

The Sunday before the show hosts a media event called CES Unveiled, featuring the Best of Innovation awards.

After three hours feigning interested in a whole range of tech startups latest offerings, I was beginning to lose hope. The closest I’d come to anything blockchain related was a point-of-sale device, which the exhibitor said: “could develop to include cryptocurrency payments in the future.”

Just as the event was finishing I stumbled across the Archos booth, where they were showing a new hardware wallet, the Safe-T touch. I arranged to meet them again during the show proper, with the possibility that they might be able to source a review model.

On exiting the hall I was sequestered by a youth holding a sign saying CoinAgenda. Apparently there was a crypto-afterparty a short bus ride away. A quick straw poll of the guests suggested that nobody really knew what the party had to do with crypto. But there was an open bar, so nobody seemed overly concerned.

Conference Tracks

Monday was spent exploring Vegas, but I did chance upon this BTC ATM in a Love Boutique.

Then Tuesday saw a full day of hosted panel-type discussions in the ‘Digital Money’ conference track. Access to these conference tracks required the purchase of an additional pass over and above the registration for the main event. Whilst I hadn’t found much to report from the Unveiled show, there was a rich vein of cryptocurrency and blockchain, playing a prominent part in events.

A diverse range of speakers and panel guests included Brock Pierce, Tim Draper, Michael Terpin of Transform group, and the Prince of the Netherlands. Sessions covered topics such as security, blockchain in the entertainment industry, regulation, and decentralization.

Last on the schedule was ‘The Second Annual Token Slugfest’, in which six companies gave four-minute pitches for their ICOs. This concluded with a clap-o-meter type judging of the pitches, and the crowning of an eventual winner.

Having spent the day bathed in the warm fuzzy glow of all things crypto, my spirits were rejuvenated. I planned to hit the show floor the next day to continue my search. Actually the (many) show floors. I hadn’t realized quite how big this CES thing was.

Images courtesy of Shutterstock, BTCist

Published at Sun, 13 Jan 2019 20:00:34 +0000

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Nitrogen Sports Adds New Baccarat Game to its Bitcoin Casino Platform

One of the popular bitcoin casino platforms, Nitrogen Sports has recently announced the addition of a new game – Baccarat. The popular game is now available alongside some of the most-played games on the platform like Dice, 1-deck Blackjack, 2-deck Blackjack and 8-deck Blackjack.

The Baccarat game offered on Nitrogen Sports is definitely different from other versions available online. It provides unprecedented flexibility to the players where they can choose between single and multiplayer game versions. The game comes with a fully integrated chat feature and offers a range of avatars for players to pick from along with a history of played hands.

Like any other game on Nitrogen Sports, Baccarat is provably fair. The platform uses Mersenne Twister random number generator (RNG) algorithm to ensure that the odds are totally even in all their games. Players on the platform can readily verify the validity of a hand by using randomly generated hashes that are controlled only by them. The generated client seed hash can be checked on any third-party verifier site for any of the Nitrogen’s Baccarat hands.

In its press release announcing the launch of Baccarat, the platform also provides the game rules and instructions. According to the release, Nitrogen’s Baccarat is a card comparing game to be played between two hands – one, the “player” and the other, “banker”. Each Baccarat round has three possible outcomes:

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Banker hand
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Baccarat cards have different point values, the cards numbered 2 to 9 are worth their face value (in points), 10s, Ks, Qs, and Js carry no points. Aces (A) carries one point and Jokers are not used. The pointing system for hands in Baccarat game considers only the rightmost digit of the sum of constituent cards.

For example: If a hand consists of cards 2 and 3, the total points for that hand is 5 (2+3). But in a scenario where the hand consists of cards 6 and 7, then its only worth 3 (as 3 is the rightmost digit in the combined points total; 13).

As per the rules of the game, the highest possible hand value in Baccarat is 9.

There are numerous versions of Baccarat played in almost every real-life casino around the world but unlike them, playing Baccarat on Nitrogen Sports is much easier and faster. The use of bitcoin offers players more flexibility in the game due to the ease at which players can buy and transfer the cryptocurrency. Users can simply create a wallet address through numerous methods and start playing.

Players on Nitrogen casino platform are free to deposit and withdraw the cryptocurrency balance as fast as the bitcoin network would allow them to do. But in the case of conventional fiat based online casinos, the same might take days at times.

All these factors make playing Baccarat on Nitrogen Sports a much better experience than any other alternative. Those interested in playing the game can do so here.

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