Long before everything started there was bitcointalk which introduced the firsts be it bitcoin gambling or first altcoin or the first real world transaction or the first exchange or the first faucet designed by gavin. If block rolling games and lottery were to be considered as gambling, then there were threads as old as May 2010 which had people investing a certain amount of bitcoin and the winner who predicted the exact last character of the block hash wins all.
Here is a gist of the world's first Bitcoin Lottery/Gambling hosted in our forum :
I've been thinking and I'll be hosting world's first Bitcoin lottery!
We'll be using the last two numbers of a real lottery, which one I do not know yet. (Maybe one that we can check online?)
When you'll buy your lot, you'll "bet" on a number between 00-99. (including 00 and 99 ofcourse!)
So, who's in for it?
What real lottery should we pick for our random numbers, or does anyone have a better source?
What price of the "lot" sounds preferable? 50 BTC? 25 BTC?
And what's the maximum amount of lots I want to let people buy? 3? 5 at most?
Please note that if the "jackpot" doesn't "fall" (no one wins), I'll keep hosting rounds until there does win someone, and I wont play myself.
So I want like a lottery that draws numbers every week if we can't get one that draws every day.
Based on these, I would consider bitcointalk as the world's first crypto exchange, bitcointalk is the place where the world's first altcoins was announced and the place where the first bitcoin gambling game was played. You can find more firsts and interesting piece of forum history in my topic :
Story of the Firsts - The events which triggered everything"SEARCH OUR FORUM, YOU KNOW IT TO BE TRUE!"