People Are Betting Big on Risky Crypto ‘Crash’ Games

Gamblers flock to a new kind of online casino that’s open 24 hours a day

Bryan Menegus
OneZero
Published in
7 min readApr 7, 2021

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Caption: A Crash betting game on nanogames.io.

“I’ve kind of developed a problem,” J.J. tells me over Discord voice chat.

In his early teens, his dad won $50,000 on a scratch-off lotto ticket, dramatically improving the family’s living situation almost overnight. “That helped…

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Bryan Menegus
OneZero
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Bryan is a writer and editor covering technology and the humans who use it