Quote from: rasagamer on Today at 12:35:53 PM

With the Indian government tightening regulations around online gaming and betting, many local platforms face stricter rules. However, offshore betting sites and crypto casinos are becoming popular among Indian players. Do you think these platforms are filling a gap, or are they adding more legal and financial risks for users?

Both, filling a gap and adding risks. If you think about it from the side of the players, the best setup would be a locally well regulated industry with both physical and online casinos. The safest would be to play in online casinos that are registered and hosted in the same country. I understand that countries want to discourage people from playing, but creating bad rules only creates additional risks for the users and in practice does not reduce playing. If a casino does not want to pay you or tricks you in some way, your odds of being able to do something against them are much lower when they are in another jurisdiction.

Quote from: AbuBhakar on Today at 12:38:30 PM

There’s also decentralized casino available to serve user from country like India that has strict law on gambling. Cryptocurrency makes anonymous gambling possible now from the regulators monitoring.

I am often skeptical about these. Are their smart contracts open source? If they are not, then they are very risky to use. They could have all sorts of manipulations in them.