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• Some Pennsylvania Casinos Say No Masks If Players are Vaxxed

  No masks at some Pennsylvania casinos. Rivers Casino Pittsburgh and Valley Forge Casino first to say no masks if visitors are vaccinated.Full article

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• NGCB grants approval to offer wagers on Major League Baseball’s Gold Glove award

  The Nevada Gaming Control Board confirmed this week that it has granted approval for operators to offer wagers on Major League Baseball’s Gold Glove Award, pursuant to the provisions of Regulation 22.1201.Full article

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• Penn National Gaming : to Launch Barstool Sportsbook Mobile App in Indiana

  Penn National Gaming, Inc. announced today that the Indiana Gaming Commission has approved the Company’s application to offer online sports wagering in Indiana. Penn National plans to launch... | May 14, 2021Full article

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• Hornets vs Knicks Picks and Odds

  See game odds, spread and total for the Eastern Conference matchup between the Charlotte Hornets and New York Knicks on Saturday, May 15th.Full article

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• Charlotte Hornets vs New York Knicks Odds & Matchup Stats

  Charlotte Hornets (33-37 SU, 35-34-1 ATS) vs New York Knicks (39-31 SU, 44-25-1 ATS). NY . Saturday, May 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York New York. Find the best moneyline odds, spread, and total; also get odds history, betting percentages, SBD's predicted score, team betting trends, and stat comparisons.Full article

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• May 14th NBA Injury Report and Projected Starting Lineups – Conley & Curry Questionable; Ibaka Returns for LAC

  NBA injury report and projected starting lineups for all eight games on Friday, May 14th. Mike Conley, Steph Curry, Serge Ibaka injury news.Full article

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• Muckleshoot Tribe reaches sport betting agreement with state

  State Gambling Commission to allow sports wagering at Auburn casinoFull article

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• Sports Betting Line

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• Tree trimmer charged over killings that left 3 dead in California

  A tree trimmer in rural Northern California has been charged in throat-slashing serial killings that left three people dead, prosecutors announced Thursday.Full article

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• Mobile Wagering Boosts the Potential Of the US Sports Betting Market

  Mobile sports wagering undoubtedly can boost the growth of the rapidly expanding sports betting market in the United States.Full article

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Cryptocurrencies

• Lawsuit Claims Onecoin's 'Cryptoqueen' Ruja Ignatova Holds 230000 Bitcoin – Bitcoin News

  Court documents filed by victims of Onecoin indicate that she received the bitcoins from a member of an Emirati royal family in Dubai.Full article

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• Apple, Tesla, and Bitcoin Are in a Technical ‘Excess Phase Top”

  The question of “Should You Be In Cash” right now is a very valid concern for many traders/investors.Full article

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• Colonial Pipeline Pays 75 Bitcoin Ransom To Hackers

  Major U.S. oil pipeline system Colonial Pipeline paid a requested 75 bitcoin ransom to hackers who took control of its data last week.Full article

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• Why Bitcoin Eats Altcoins For Lunch

  Other cryptocurrencies have no chance at all in competing with the monstrously large Bitcoin network.Full article

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• A bitcoin battle of the billionaires ensues as Jack Dorsey faces off with Musk on 'green' merits of world's No. 1 crypto

  Two of the world's most prominent billionaires Tesla Inc.'s CEO Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey are facing off over the merits of bitcoin, with the future of the...Full article

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• DMG Blockchain Solutions and Argo Blockchain Sign Crypto

  Eco-Forward Blockchain Companies to Support CCA through Implementation of Carbon-Neutral Initiatives and CCA Green Hash Rate Working Group...Full article

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• Roaring Crypto Cacophony Drowns Out Rest of Wall Street

  (Bloomberg) -- Wild stock swings, spikes in Treasury yields, startling economic readings? Interesting, sure. But if you really want to get people’s attention right now, you need to tell them a story about crypto.And there have been a lot of those. Even for a market that’s famous for its wild volatility and gimmicks, the past week’s cryptocurrency news set new records for jaw-droppers.It began with Elon Musk’s highly anticipated appearance as host on “Saturday Night Live.” Dogecoin owners watched hoping that the “Dogefather” would further propel the digital currency that had soared this year from less than a penny to 74 cents before he took the stage.What they got instead was a skit in which he laughed after calling the coin a “hustle.” Since then, the Shiba Inu-branded coin created as a joke has lost almost half of its value.Dogecoin wasn’t the only canine-themed coin to take a tumble.Shiba Inu coin -- yes, a meta joke about the joke that is Dogecoin -- soared earlier in the week as it was added to exchanges like OKEx and Binance. It and other Dogecoin imitators’ popularity reached such heights that transaction fees on the Ethereum network hit an all-time high, according to CoinDesk.The rally faded quickly. The cryptocurrency plunged Wednesday after the Wall Street Journal reported that Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin donated more than $1 billion of the coin to a charity that is fighting the spread of Covid-19 in India.Then that night, Musk struck again. He announced that Tesla Inc. would no longer accept Bitcoin as a form of payment for its cars. In a tweet, Musk said that the carmaker was “concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel.”While his tweet left Bitcoin holders wondering what spurred the change -- the facts of the coin’s energy profile hadn’t changed since Tesla announced in March that it would accept it as payment -- the market reacted swiftly. Bitcoin plunged from nearly $57,000 before his flip-flop to $46,000 within two hours.Thursday brought some good news for crypto die-hards. Point72, the hedge fund run by billionaire New York Mets owner Steve Cohen, was set to make a sizable move into the market. Bitcoin gained 2.5% following the news.The rally didn’t last long.Tether, the crypto stablecoin that says it’s backed one-for-one by fiat currencies, released a reserves breakdown for the first time that showed a large portion in unspecified commercial paper. The company has faced questions over both its reserves and whether it was used to manipulate cryptocurrency prices. In February, Tether settled a legal dispute with the New York Attorney General’s Office and paid a fine of $18.5 million.After that, reports surfaced that Colonial Pipeline Co. paid nearly $5 million in untraceable cryptocurrency to the hackers that infiltrated the company’s network and forced the shutdown of its infrastructure, setting off widespread gasoline shortages up the U.S. eastern seaboard.At about the same time, Bloomberg reported that Binance Holdings Ltd., the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, was under investigation by the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service in relation to possible money-laundering and tax offenses.News of the investigation sent Bitcoin and Ethereum, the two largest cryptocurrencies, down by more than 7% each as fears were stoked about the Biden administration taking a tougher approach toward an industry that has largely operated outside of the gaze of regulators.Then at 4:00 p.m. New York time, Coinbase Global, Inc., the biggest U.S. crypto exchange, reported first-quarter earnings. Its revenues fell just short of consensus estimates and the company projected flat user growth. Coinbase also plans to offer Dogecoin trading on its platform. The exchange’s shares fell as much as 6.5% in after-hours trading before recovering.Friday is already bringing further drama, beginning with more comments from Musk. The billionaire in a tweet said he “strongly” believes in crypto but that “it can’t drive a massive increase in fossil fuel use, especially coal.”Not long after, he followed up with another post saying that he’s working with Dogecoin “devs to improve system transaction efficiency,” describing the effort as “potentially promising.” Dogecoin jumped more than 20% after the tweet. (Updates prices in last paragraph.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.©2021 Bloomberg L.P.Full article

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• The IRS is setting its sights on crypto traders

  The IRS is prioritizing an effort to enforce reporting on crypto trades to find people who have neglected to report their windfalls. And it’s starting with two lawsuits.Full article

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• Solana, a blockchain platform followed by top crypto investors, says it’s far faster than Ethereum

  Solana isn’t widely known yet outside of the crypto community. But insiders think the blockchain platform is interesting for a wide variety of reasons, beginning with its amiable founder, Anatoly Yakovenko, who spent more than a dozen years as an engineer working on wireless protocols at Qualcomm and who says he had a lightbulb moment […]Full article

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• Digihost Provides Update on Deal to Acquire 9,900 Bitcoin

  TORONTO, May 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Digihost Technology Inc. (“Digihost” or the “Company”) (TSXV: DGHI; OTCQB: HSSHF) provides an update on its...Full article

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NFTs

• Cara Delevingne Is Auctioning An NFT About Her Vagina

  The newest wave of art collection goes truly mainstream.Full article

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• What the NFT Gold Rush Means for Fashion

  The market for digital collectibles is booming. Opportunity or passing fad?Full article

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• Cara Delevingne Auctioning an NFT About Her Vagina | THR News

  The 'Carnival Row' actress is doing something rather unique with the burgeoning NFT content marketplace.Full article

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• World’s first programmable master of classical music NFT bought for more than US$375,000

  After shooting to crypto-fame for buying Beeple’s ‘Everydays’, Metapurse dives into classical music with a choral piece drawn on one of the world’s most fascinating missing person’s cases: Amelia EarhartFull article

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• Spring and Bondly NFT Partnership Unlocks Digital Potential for Creator Economy

  /PRNewswire/ -- Spring (formerly Teespring) and Bondly, premier NFT solutions provider that empowers the next generation of NFT creators, announced today their...Full article

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• The Preakness Stakes brings NFTs to horse racing

  David Wilson, the Chief Marketing Officer of 1/ST, which owns and operates the Preakness Stakes, explains the thought behind horse racing's first NFT collection.Full article

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• Ervin László Auctions Official NFTs on His Own Works for Charity

  NEW YORK, May 14, 2021 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Ervin László, the twice Nobel Peace Prize nominated quantum theorist, philosopher, and piano virtuoso is issuing a series of official Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)Full article

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• NBA Top Shot Lawsuit: Federal Securities Violations Alleged

  A new lawsuit charges that the sale of NBA Top Shot “Moments” violates the federal Securities Act of 1933, a law designed to both safeguard investors in the purchase of publicly offered securities and deter fraudulent acts in the marketing of those securities. Dapper Labs, a Vancouver-based blockchain company that has partnered with the NBA, […]Full article

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• IIHF becomes latest to make NFT move with Crypto.com deal

  The International Ice Hockey Federation has become the latest sports property to sign Crypto.com as a sponsor. The two-year deal makes the brand the exclusive…Full article

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• when a michelangelo becomes an NFT, the uffizi gallery sells for $170000

  depicting the holy family, michelangelo's 'doni tondo,' is now an NFT and has helped the uffizi gallery with its pandemic recovery efforts.Full article

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