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In September 2026, a large set of internal documents from the Curaçao Gaming Authority became public, and a group of newsrooms including the Guardian began reporting on the content. Many of the crypto casinos people use are licensed in Curaçao so it’s important for players to know what’s disputed, and what a Curaçao licence does and doesn’t tell you before you deposit.

The question of ownership of duel is not in doubt. There are material concerns though regarding the owner and certain allegations that have come to light. The following is a look at what is reported so that players can be properly informed. Duel is a crypto casino founded in 2023, licensed offshore in Anjouan.

A New York Times investigation exposed something genuinely damning for the online gambling industry. DraftKings built an AI model to identify which customers would lose the most money, then spent roughly $400 million steering promotions toward exactly those people.

Rainbet is operated by RB Gaming N.V. (also written RBGAMING N.V.), incorporated in Curaçao under registration number 163051, with a registered address at Zuikertuintjeweg (Zuikertuin Tower), Willemstad. This is a common registered-agent office address shared by many unrelated Curaçao-registered companies, not evidence of any specific connection on its own.

A new industry study makes a striking claim. Europe’s illegal online gambling market has tripled since 2019, now worth €12 billion and equal to a quarter of the entire online gambling sector. It’s not the size of the growth that is most striking, but the study’s reason behind it. It isn’t happening despite regulation. In several of the biggest cases, it’s happening because of specific regulatory choices.

Two significant tax bills are heading to a House committee vote on the same day this week. One fixing a real, widely-criticized problem in how gambling losses get taxed, the other overhauling crypto tax rules. They’re not related by subject matter, but they’re connected by one specific lawmaker sitting at the center of both. Starting January 1, 2026, a provision buried in last year’s major federal tax legislation (the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) cut the gambling loss deduction from 100% to 90%.

Kalshi’s CEO made a pointed claim on CNBC. The wave of state lawsuits against his company isn’t really about consumer protection, but the traditional gambling industry using regulators to fight off a competitive threat. A CNN investigation, built on nearly 20 sources, describes something closer to a genuine two-sided war with real money, real casualties, and real complications on both sides. The numbers here are concrete and current.

Cashy, a new crypto casino operated by the same company behind BitStarz, has committed $1 million USDC to directly pay out players who were denied legitimate winnings at other casinos. It’s a genuinely unusual initiative, and it’s independently corroborated, not just self-promotional copy.

Two new proposals surfaced within days of each other this month, one in the Philippines, one in Belarus. Both are aiming to sharply restrict gambling advertising and neither is happening in isolation. This is part of a real, accelerating global pattern, and increasingly, the people writing these laws aren’t just targeting casino operators. They’re targeting affiliates and influencers directly. The Philippines’ approach is sweeping and explicitly names the influencer economy.

Self-exclusion tools like the UK’s GamStop exist for a specific reason. It allows someone lock themselves out of gambling during a moment of clarity, protecting them from a future, more compromised version of themselves. They work well for what they’re built to do. What’s less understood is what they don’t cover, and that gap isn’t hypothetical. GsmStop now protects over 532,000 registered users, nearly 1% of Britain’s population.