The Korea Media and Communications Standards Commission told domestic internet providers to cut off the prediction market, rejecting its argument that smart contracts place it outside Korean gambling law.
A player lost $7.3 million on Winna's Slide, most of it in one final fourteen-minute burst. Three days later, the game's history was wiped. There is now no public way to check whether those rounds were fair.
Illegal online gambling in the US grew 45% in 2025, twice the pace of licensed sites, and took 77% of the $125.6 billion Americans lost. From Lagos to LA, the same pattern shows up globally and doesn't discriminate between the world's richest and poorest countries.
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