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Business of Trend Forecasting, Pickleball, And The Lucrative Virtual Gaming World

My First Million

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Is There a Workaround for Sweepstakes?

The company is based around this workaround, which is that the US law lets you do sweepstakes. And so they offer sweeps coins that can be redeemed for cash. They worked with the US lawyers to build a system where like customers can basically buy virtual gold coins and use it to play the games. It's surprising to me that a patent would be this powerful at stopping somebody from competing because in tech, patents usually do nothing.

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