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History of betting exchange
Sunday, February 7th, 2010
The concept of peer-to-peer betting – the precursor to a betting exchange – was first brought to the public by the UK website Flutter.com in May 2000. At the same time Irish-based betting exchange Betmart.com was launched into the UK. Soon after, UK-based Betfair launched what it originally called “open-market betting”, in June 2000 – [...]
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Carr–Benkler wager
Monday, January 25th, 2010
Yochai Benkler speaking at UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of law on 27 April 2006. Nicholas Carr speaking at the VINT Symposium held in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 17, 2008. The Carr-Benkler wager is between Yochai Benkler and Nicholas Carr about whether the most influential sites on the Internet will be peer-produced or price-incentivized systems. [...]
