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(May 03, 2018)

We're officially in crunch time! Everyone involved with Bookie Public Beta is 100% focused on a successful launch prior to the World Cup.



Our updates this month include competitions & prizes, a new name (coming soon), BOS released to Witnesses, and some new Steemit articles.



Read on for all this and more. Bookie Public Beta Competitions FIFA World Cup is one of the most popular betting events in the world, in part due to the fact it only comes around every four years. Bookie Public Beta, our free-to-play betting exchange, will allow bettors to win real Bitcoin prizes with Bookie during World Cup 2018 this summer! We’ll have a whole host of competitions where betting on Bookie with play money can win you BTC. At the same time, Bookie will be getting the test drive of its life from sports bettors spread all over the world.



BitcoinTalk will be the official spot for all competition information. At launch (scheduled for the first week of June) we will create a brand new thread with details and instructions on Competitions, Spot Prize Challenges, and Bounties. Creating an account on BitcoinTalk is easy, and we recommend getting a head start so you’re ready to win when the World Cup starts!



Here’s a teaser of what we have in store:



Competitions

There will be two basic kinds of Bookie competition: Sweepstakes, and Betting Challenges based around individual games. Full details will be announced at launch.



Spot Prize Challenges

These will be on-the-spot prizes and will be announced one at a time (no head starts allowed!). Challenges may include: Best YouTube Review, Funniest Meme, Biggest Win, with many more under consideration. We’re looking for social media engagement to spread the Bookie word far and wide.



Bounty Program

We will offer Bookie bounties throughout the World Cup, and they may include: Original tweet about Bookie, Joining the Bookie subreddit, Placing a bet on Bookie on three consecutive days.



Additional Sports

The World Cup is the biggest sporting event of the summer, but it’s not the only sporting event. Stay tuned for additional sports to be included in Bookie Public Beta - along with corresponding Competitions, Spot Prizes, and Bounties! New Name Announcement Coming SOON

Bookie Public Beta is a nice name and does a nice job saying what it is. But it’s not a great name, and it’s not our actual name.



That’s right: prior to launch we are going to reveal the real, OFFICIAL name for the Bookie desktop app.



Tweet us your best guesses of what this name is at @BookieBeta, using the hashtag #bookiesrealname! First person to guess correctly gets 5 mBTC*. Additional prizes for any that make us laugh!



Hey, that’s our first Spot Prize!



*Must have a BTC address. Winner will be announced the day Bookie Public Beta launches. BOS released to Witnesses In last month’s newsletter we introduced Bookie Oracle Software (“BOS”) and expanded on the subject in an Introduction to the Tech Behind Bookie article.



As a refresher, BOS acts as the middleman between Data Proxies and the Peerplays blockchain. Data Proxies retrieve sports information from various data feeds (like start/end times of games, final scores, and so on), and feed the information to BOS, which in turn feeds the information to the Peerplays blockchain.



Last week, PBSA released BOS to Peerplays Witnesses, who are busy installing it on the Public Testnet and hooking up to Data Proxies as we speak. Every new step of the way, this stuff gets more exciting! Witnesses are getting the first close-up look (and doing a great job of cranking Bookie up behind the scenes, by the way) but here at PBSA we are bursting to share this revolutionary betting app with you all. We’re just six weeks out from World Cup 2018, and Bookie will be in your hands by the time the first match kicks off... Patience, friends, patience! Bookie Steemit Articles

Catch up on the latest articles from our two educational series on Steemit - Betting with Bookie and Introduction to the Tech Behind Bookie - as we continue to demystify the betting experience and outline some of the new technologies being used to build Bookie.



Courtsiding

"With odds constantly shifting accordingly with score changes and other match conditions, there’s no denying that in-play betting opened a lot of doors for bettors. Providing the opportunity to make or reverse a bet after the match has started no doubt saved a lot of heartache and money for some. But it isn’t without flaws. Bettors soon discovered an edge that some consider shady or even illicit, related to how quickly they can acquire knowledge of changing match conditions relative to other bettors.



Enter, Courtsiders."

In-Play Betting

"To most people, the timing of when you place a bet is typically before the game starts. This used to be the case, but over the past decade, through shifts in product, technology, and betting habits, In-Play Betting during an event has seen massive growth in popularity in both sportsbooks and betting exchanges.



Also known as ‘Live Betting’, In-Play Betting occurs after an event has started, can go on until the end of the game, and the odds are constantly shifting in line with the changing score and other match conditions (e.g. player injuries, time left in the match).



So why would anyone want to place a bet In-Play? There are a couple reasons."





Betting with Bookie Introduction to Odds

Stake and Liability

Unmatched vs. Matched

Introduction to the Tech Behind Bookie BOS Follow Us and Never Miss an Update! With so much happening with Bookie over the next few months, you won’t want to miss any news.



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That’s it for this month!



Regards,

Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA)

The Peerplays Blockchain Standards Association (PBSA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting provably-fair gaming standards for the Peerplays blockchain. Find out more at www.pbsa.info and www.peerplays.com.