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“For a hundred years this game lived on the corner,” he said in TCS/JOHNHUXLEY’s press release. “Now it’s got a dealer, a pay table and a seat at the table in a real casino. Same dice, new floor.”

Cee-lo—derived from sì wǔ liù (Chinese for “four-five-six”)—is played with three six-sided dice. Popular among Chinese-American players as early as 1893, it was adopted by hip-hop culture in the late 1970s and became a fixture on the street corners of Harlem, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

Nas, the Notorious B.I.G., and Jadakiss all referenced the game in their music. Kool G Rap called his 1995 album 4,5,6, and its title track included the line “Headcrack, time to get the bread”—the lyric that most likely inspired 50 Cent’s casino adaptation.

But it was Thomas DeCarlo Callaway who gave the game its biggest mainstream exposure, and gesture of love, when he took his stage name, CeeLo Green, directly from it.

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Paired with the recent rise of prediction markets—which allow traders to stake money on everything from sporting events to pop culture outcomes—Americans are risking more money on casino-like activities than ever before.

Buffett has repeatedly raised concerns regarding the mainstreaming of gambling and its marketing under the guise of investing. In May, he targeted prediction markets and traders speculating on short-term instruments like 30-minute bitcoin options.

“If you’re buying or selling one-day options, that is not investing. It is not speculating. It is gambling,” Buffett said during an interview with CNBC. “There’s nobody who can explain why they’re buying an option for one day.”

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The following are a set of articles that discuss some of Bitcoin SV’s capabilities and offer some real-world business use cases. Most of these are specific to the gaming industry but there are a couple that are more generic but highlight BSV’s benefits.

How Bitcoin SV provides data ledger for Internet of Things – The Internet of Things depends on fast, unfailing data. This recap from a CoinGeek Live 2020 presentation explains how the Bitcoin SV’s low transaction fees allows that data to be stored on the blockchain for minimal costs.

Bitcoin SV is capable of 9000 transactions per second – In January 2021, the Bitcoin SV (BSV) Scaling Test Network (STN) reached a new height processing over 9,000 transactions per second. If your business needs an enterprise solution the TPS potential opens up a world of possibilities as to what can be done on-chain.

Bitcoin SV is capable of enterprise data management – At Sir Anthony Ritossa’s 13th Global Family Office Investment Summit in Dubai, a panel of Bitcoin experts explained how Bitcoin SV is already helping enterprises and governments, digitizing currency and data to solve existing challenges.