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(May 18, 2018) News From the Bunker: May Edition It’s the final countdown! The Bunker is “all hands on deck” for the next few weeks leading to Bookie Beta’s launch, but we still have a ton of updates to share.



*Inhales*

Some of the ways to win real BTC during the World Cup, the real name for Bookie’s desktop app, a new Vice President at PBSA, recap of the Graphene DevCon in China, PBSA is going back to Amsterdam (for a few days), a Bitcoin sidechain is coming, and a few more articles.

*Exhales* Bookie Beta Competitions Less than a month to go before the 2018 FIFA World Cup, and excitement continues to grow for one of the biggest betting events in the world. Winning won’t just take place on the pitch (that’s “field” in soccer-talk), but also with Bookie.



Bookie Beta will launch soon with “play” tokens and the opportunity to win real Bitcoin prizes! There will be several ways to win, from sweepstakes to individual match competitions, and we want to give you a head start in getting ready.



The first thing you need to know is that Bitcointalk will be the official home for all competition information. At launch - scheduled for early June - we will create a brand new thread in Bitcointalk with details and instructions on how to win. We recommend creating a Bitcointalk account now; you’ll need one to participate in the competitions and claim prizes.



Here’s a teaser of the ways you can win real BTC prizes during the World Cup. Full details on each section, including instructions for participation, will follow at a later date.



Sign-Up Sweeps

Every single user who signs up and validates their Bookie username on Bitcointalk will be entered into multiple sweepstakes.



Bet for BTC

The World Cup will be host to dozens of soccer matches between June 14 - July 15. But more importantly (to some of us) it will provide dozens of opportunities to win BTC by betting on those matches!



Bounties

Unrelated to the betting, our bounty program may involve tasks like creating how-to videos, live-streaming your betting prowess online, and more!



Top-Up Tasks (win play tokens only)

All betting on Bookie will be with play tokens, but that doesn’t mean supply is unlimited! Throughout the World Cup you will have multiple opportunities to gain additional play tokens to bet with which, in turn, will give you more opportunities to win BTC. The Real Name for “Bookie Beta” is Going to Be... … announced at a later date!



Sorry for the tease. We’re going to announce Bookie’s real name soon, as early as next week. In the meantime, there’s still time to tell us what you think the name will be. Tweet us your best (and worst) guesses using the hashtag #bookiesrealname. First correct guess gets 5 mBTC!



Additional prizes for guesses that make us laugh :)



*Must have a BTC address. Winner will be announced prior to Bookie Beta launch. PBSA Welcomes Eoin Whelan, VP Strategy and Partnerships With his first official day in the Bunker scheduled for end of May, Eoin (pronounced ‘Owen’) will waste no time getting his feet wet with PBSA. On June 07 he’ll be attending - and speaking at - the 2018 Tulip Emerging Technologies Conference in San Francisco. If you’re also attending, seek him out and say hi!



Mr. Whelan is looking forward to helping PBSA in its mission to provide provably fair gaming & betting to the world. “PBSA is at the very cutting edge of the blockchain movement, and I am delighted to be joining at such a transformative stage of its development,” he said.



Please join us in welcoming Eoin to the Bunker!



You can read the entire press release here. PBSA Attends Graphene DevCon in Shanghai Earlier this month PBSA had three representatives at the 2018 Global Graphene Blockchain Developer Conference: Jonathan Baha’i, President; Keegan Francis, Senior Full Stack Developer; and Dr. Fabian Schuh, PBSA Director.



The Graphene DevCon showed that blockchain innovation around the world is thriving, and the codebase which started the BitShares blockchain has evolved into many many high performance blockchain platforms, such as Steem, Golos, Peerplays, and EOS. New ways to scale and bring about the next Internet are closer than many realize. PBSA President Jonathan Baha'i on stage in Shanghai For Keegan Francis, the conference was something of a fact-finding mission, relishing the opportunity to take in presentations from other Graphene-based projects.



“I really enjoyed the networking aspect of the event,” Keegan reported. “It was exciting to be in a room with 1000 other developers sharing a common goal and working with the same technology.” iGB Amsterdam Affiliate Conference Details are still being worked out, but PBSA is attending the iGB Amsterdam Affiliate Conference in July. We are scheduled to have a stand and a speaking slot at the event, which gathers together a huge range of actors from the global affiliate industry. PBSA introduced Bookie at the London Affiliate Conference back in February of this year - Amsterdam sees a stepping up of our efforts to educate about the Peerplays on-chain affiliate program that Bookie will be integrated with.



We’ll post more details as they become available, but if you plan on being there then you should also plan on saying hi! Attendance is free for visitors, so you have no excuse not to come (that is, if you’re near Amsterdam between July 17-20). Bookie AMA #2 We’re excited to announce a second AMA on Reddit! Like the first one, this will be Bookie-focused. Launch is just weeks away - days, really! - and we know the Peerplays community has questions. May 24th sounds like the perfect date for another AMA.



Last time around we shared the AMA thread a couple days in advance. It was a chance to pre-post questions for those who couldn’t attend the event live. We may be reinventing the betting exchange, but there’s no need to fix what’s not broken; we’ll share the AMA thread early next week for pre-posting your questions.



Look for a second email with details in the coming days. eXeBlock Nearing Completion of Bitcoin Sidechain ExeBlock Technology Corp, who have committed to develop four DApps for the Peerplays blockchain, recently announced their Bitcoin sidechain plans to the world. The sidechain will provide Bitcoin payment support to the DApps currently in development by PBSA other third parties, as well as eXeBlock’s upcoming 50/50 Labs DApp.



Read the entire press release here. New Bookie Articles on Steemit Some articles you may have missed since the last update:



Introduction to the Tech Behind Bookie Series:



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"In the previous article in this series, we discussed how the Bookie Oracle Software (BOS) brings sports data from the outside world, on to the Bookie betting exchange that sits on the Peerplays blockchain. Each Peerplays Witness runs an instance of BOS, which receives sports data from multiple sources (third party data feed providers via Data Proxies), checks a rule set (“bookiesports”), and then makes (and votes for) proposals to the blockchain for the addition of new events and betting markets. If each element in this chain behaves as it should, then BOS can be left to its own devices - it handles its oracle role automatically, without human intervention."

BOS Diagram & Overview

For an overview of some of the elements in this diagram

Betting with Bookie In-Play Betting

Unmatched vs Matched

Courtsiding

The Types of Bettors Until next month...



- The PBSA Team

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.