So far you can bet on European football leagues, NBA, NHL, NFL, Copa Monero in Argentina and we just added prediction markets, so you can also bet on the next US president for example.

If you have suggestions for more prediction markets just let us know.

You are betting against other users not “against the house”

Thank you!

– “Doesn’t holding two keys in 3/4 multisig instead of one in 2/3 increases complexity?” Yes, however since we launched we changed the scheme from 3/4 to 2/3 multisig. This means that users can indeed have full control of funds and settle the bet in any way they agree. In Sigmanero you can’t contact the opposite counterpart, however, we you can always create a “private bet” that can only be accepted with whomever you wish. If Sigmanero disappears and leaves funds in multisig wallets, it is also possible for users to coordinate to get the funds back since both users will know the main address of the multisig, so they could in theory ask around, “who also has this main address?” and agree between them where to transfer the funds. Hope this makes sense and its not too much detail.

– “Would you consider sharing this work?” yes, especially the front end code which relies on the outstanding monerots library. There isn’t much more to add to it besides getting coordination sequence steps right. On the back end the code is unsurprising to be honest. Again just a matter of handling the steps of the multisig generation.

Could take us about a week to add AFL. Do you think there will be interest from people?

Some financial alchemy would help. The borrower would need to buy some derivative that pays off if monero goes up, like a call option. Impossible to find today and possibly expensive for low amounts.

We are live again – thanks for all your comments :)

Hello,

Yes we are adding some extra features, most importantly changing the set up from 3/4 multisgs to 2/3. We got feedback that the possibility of Sigmanero being able to “lock” funds was not good. This way users will always be able to get funds back if they can coordinate to find out who was their bet counterpart – which should not be hard since they will have the main address info.

– “Got a question. Is there a way to open requests for sigmanero to open up certain bets? Eg/ US election” Not at the start, but this sounds very easy to implement. We want to offer political markets soon as well, and we can always receive special request if they make sense by way of message. We get asked quite often about political bets so for sure will be made. How you offer bets for events far into the future will be a bit tricky because whoever if placing the bet offer needs to keep its browser window open, since the wallet is locally generated and they need their seed key. This is the rationale for having “bet windows” of 6 hours or less before events. But yes, if users can coordinate the timing, it can defiantly happen.Maybe in forums or users just end up typically checking the website at the end of the day to scout for interesting bets.

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