Best Ethereum Betting Sites in Great Britain

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27 October 2026 · Cross-checked against the Gambling Commission’s public register of operating licences.

Ethereum hit the market on 30 July 2015, ten months after its white paper went public and a year and a half after Vitalik Buterin first sketched the idea at nineteen. A decade on, “bookmaker takes Ethereum” is a question a UK punter types into a search bar often enough to deserve a careful answer. The honest one runs through the Gambling Commission, not the blockchain: any brand serving customers in Great Britain needs a remote operating licence at the point of consumption, and whether it lists ETH as a payment method is a second question that turns on the operator’s own banking terms. This page walks through that distinction, what licensed sites have published on the topic, where the FCA and HMRC sit on crypto as a payment rail and a taxable asset, and which of the ten brands reviewed below makes the strongest case for the reader who already holds Ether.

What “Ethereum Betting Site” Actually Means in Great Britain

The phrase covers three different ideas that get blurred in marketing: a bookmaker that *accepts deposits in Ether*, a bookmaker that *settles bets in Ether*, and a “crypto sportsbook” run on the blockchain with no fiat on-ramp at all. Those are not the same thing, and in Great Britain the first two are the only two a reader will usually meet through a licensed operator.

A licensed bookmaker is a Gambling Commission licensee. Since the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014, any operator whose remote facilities — websites, apps, software — are used by customers in Great Britain must hold a Commission licence regardless of where the operator is based. A Curaçao, Maltese or Gibraltar incorporation is not a substitute. The Commission’s public register, searchable by business name, trading name, domain or account number, is the only place the licence status of a brand can be confirmed. Operators use both .co.uk and .com domains, so the domain tells the reader nothing.

Identity verification happens before the first deposit. Since 7 May 2019, every Commission-licensed operator has had to confirm a customer’s name, address and date of birth before they can deposit, gamble, claim a bonus or use a free bet. That requirement reads as “KYC” in industry shorthand and is what kills any meaningful sense of “anonymous” play at a licensed site. Anyone selling anonymity at a licensed book is selling a non-existent product.

No Commission licence, no GAMSTOP, no ASA route, no British redress. A punter who bypasses the licence to chase crypto rails trades protections they would otherwise have — multi-operator self-exclusion, an approved dispute-resolution body, the ASA advertising code, and British consumer protection if funds are withheld. The Commission’s response to unlicensed operators is disruption, not blocking: cease-and-desist notices, search-engine delistings, work with payment providers and registrars, with court-order DNS powers pending.

Set against that frame, the rest of this page is a working answer to a narrower question: of the brands the Commission does license, which ones openly list a crypto rail such as Ethereum among their deposit methods, which ones describe their policy in terms that leave the door open without naming it, and which ones name only debit cards, bank transfers and a handful of e-wallets.

The Statutory Frame Around Crypto in Great Britain

The Gambling Act, the LCCP and the licence types the brand sits under

The Gambling Act 2005 covers Great Britain — England, Scotland and Wales — and not Northern Ireland, which sits under older legislation. The bookmakers reviewed below hold a “remote general betting standard (real events)” licence, which is the category that covers sports betting on actual fixtures, as opposed to virtual events, pool betting or the betting-intermediary licence an exchange runs under. The bookmaker is licensed *at the point of consumption*: the customer sits in London, the operator’s holding company can sit in Gibraltar, Malta, the Channel Islands or, increasingly, the UK itself, and the test is the same. Each remote licence carries with it the Licence Conditions and Codes of Practice (LCCP), which is the operator-level rulebook in which most of the player-facing protections live.

The FCA’s role with Ether and other cryptoassets

Cryptoassets are a different regulator’s problem. The Financial Conduct Authority administers the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 as amended, under which firms providing cryptoasset exchange or custodian wallet services in the UK — a category that includes firms dealing in Ether — must register before they operate. The FCA’s financial promotions regime, in force since October 2023 and tightened through 2026, applies to all firms marketing cryptoassets to UK consumers regardless of where the firm is based. The upshot for a bookmaker’s payment page: when a regulated exchange is used to acquire the ETH in the first place, the punter is buying from an FCA-registered firm. When the brand itself holds or accepts crypto, a separate registration may be in play, depending on what the brand does with the asset.

HMRC and the tax position on a winning Ether bet

HMRC treats gains from disposing of cryptoasset tokens as potentially liable to Capital Gains Tax, calculated as the difference between acquisition value and disposal value. For a punter, the practical scenario is rare but worth knowing: betting in Ether from a personal wallet, withdrawing a winning stake in Ether, then exchanging it later — the gain between bet and disposal is a CGT event. The bookmaker side is different. The player pays no tax on betting winnings in Great Britain, and General Betting Duty (currently 15% on the operator’s gross profits, rising to a new 25% remote rate from 1 April 2027 under the policy paper of 26 November 2025) is the operator’s tax, not the punter’s. That split is worth holding on to when the marketing of crypto sportsbooks talks about “no tax”.

Responsible Gambling Where the Payment Rail Is the Blockchain

The protections the Gambling Commission makes available to a GB punter do not bend for the payment method. They are the same whether the punter pays in pounds or in Ether, and that is a frame worth restating before the brand reviews, because the rest of the page is about what licensed brands have published on payments and offers.

GAMSTOP is the multi-operator online self-exclusion scheme. Every Commission-licensed online operator belongs to it, and the exclusion periods — six months, one year, five years, or five years with auto-renewal — sit on top of an additional seven years before a customer can ask to have it lifted. GAMSTOP covers online sites and apps; betting shops run a separate scheme.

The financial vulnerability check applies once a punter’s net deposits cross £150 in a rolling 30 days. This is a public-record check (county court judgments, bankruptcy, similar registers), not an income check, and it is a Commission requirement under LCCP condition 3.4.4 in force since 30 August 2024, with the threshold in place since 28 February 2025. Beyond the vulnerability check, the Commission’s financial risk assessment framework — the “affordability checks” of the press — has been announced in a staged plan (the Commission’s article of 7 July 2026), with no start date confirmed. Say “announced, staged, no start date” and leave it there.

The deposit-limit regime changed in two phases. Under Remote Technical Standard 12, licensed remote operators must offer a gross deposit limit on a fixed time frame. The first changes applied on 31 October 2025; a second phase was postponed to 30 September 2026; whether that second phase has gone live is not established in the public record. The headline point for a punter is unchanged: there is no state-set ceiling, and the ceiling a punter sets is the punter’s own choice.

Help is reachable independent of the operator. GamCare runs the National Gambling Helpline. GambleAware directs to local services. The NHS runs gambling clinics in regions across England. Gamblers Anonymous runs groups in person and online. Licensed operators link to all of these from their safer-gambling pages; an unlicensed brand does not have to, and most do not.

A feature of a crypto-onboarding flow that deserves a sentence: the temptation to delay the affordability conversation until the Ether is in the wallet is real, and the Commission does not carve out a delay for crypto deposits. Whatever the marketing says about speed or “no waiting”, the same £150 net-deposit threshold, the same GAMSTOP membership and the same withdrawal-of-funds process apply.

Crypto Payments at a Licensed Bookmaker: What the Rules Quietly Permit

The hard rule is one paragraph long, and it is worth keeping it framed.

No statute on crypto deposits at a licensed bookmaker was found in the public register, the Commission’s guidance pages or the LCCP. A licensed operator may accept, refuse or process crypto payments at its discretion, and the choice on each brand’s payment page reflects its own banking arrangement. The Commission’s published position on digital and virtual currencies, citing Bitcoin and Ethereum by name, addresses the *risk* side: that anonymity may be attractive to those who want to conceal identity, that price volatility can wipe out deposits between bet and settlement, and that the asset class has a history of hacking and theft. None of that is a prohibition.

Credit cards have been banned for gambling in Great Britain since 14 April 2020 (LCCP condition 6.1.2), including credit-card-funded top-ups through an e-wallet. Debit cards and bank-based payments are not covered. It is the most-cited rule at the cashier, and it is the one to check for whenever the cashier page tries to route a deposit through a credit-issued instrument.

Identity verification before the first deposit is the rule that makes “anonymous betting” impossible at a licensed site. The brand may have published the words “instant deposits” or “no verification” on a marketing page; the cashier still asks. A GB punt who wants truly anonymous play has to leave the GB-licensed pool.

Source-of-funds checks appear above the deposit threshold under the money-laundering rules the FCA administers. The brand may ask for a payslip, a bank statement or a recent utility bill. This is not a Commission-specific rule, but it is the rule most often felt during a large ETH-to-fiat withdrawal.

What that means in practice: at the brands reviewed below, the cashier is the canonical answer. Where the cashier lists ETH, the page below treats that as a “supported” reading; where it lists only cards and e-wallets, the page records that and moves on. Honesty matters more here than coverage: an unlicensed brand has no Commission register to look up, and pretending otherwise wastes the reader’s time.

The Comparison Table: Ten Licensed Bookmakers Side by Side

The ten bookmakers below are ten rows of one comparison: the Commission’s operating licence, what the brand itself publishes at the cashier on crypto, and the broader support question for the package this page is built around. Where a row carries a no-data marker, that marker is the working answer for that operator on that point: the brands name different payment stacks in different places, and the page records each as the brand states it rather than filling gaps from memory.

The “Subject support” column is the answer to the page’s central question — does this brand support an Ethereum deposit rail? — and the operator rows below record it precisely as each brand’s published terms allow. Where the cashier page names Ethereum directly, the row says so. Where the cashier names only a generic “cryptocurrencies accepted” or skips the topic, the row says that. Where the brand does not address the topic at all in its public terms, the row carries the no-data marker — and no apology for the marker is needed, because the brand’s own page is the only place that question can be answered.

Betting Sites With Ethereum at a Glance: the 2026 Field

The “Subject support” column carries the same listings-only reading on every row on purpose: the page’s central question is what the cashier lists, and the cashier’s reading is the only reading the page can stand behind without inventing. A brand that names Ether openly deserves a “supported” reading; a brand whose cashier omits the topic deserves an honest “not listed”; a brand the page has no documented cashier reading for deserves the marker. Every row above is the second of those three.

What Each of the Reviewed Brands Looks Like Up Close

The page walks ten brands one at a time below, in the order the Commission’s register returns them. Each section carries the brand’s licence reference, the published safer-gambling toolkit, the welcome offer as the brand describes it (and not as a code), and a closing read of where the brand fits for a punter who holds Ether.

London Bet — The Boutique Regional Book With a Thin Crypto Trail

London Bet is published by Thistle Bet Limited under Commission licence 066162-R-340278-004, with Thistle Bet’s accounts visible on the public register and a 17+ App Store age rating. The brand focuses on a tight sport-horse-racing and football product set, with the cashier listing debit cards, Apple Pay and selected bank-based rails. There is no published Ethereum deposit rail. What you get here is a smaller brand that takes its licence duties seriously — GAMSTOP is live, identity checks happen before the first deposit, and the safer-gambling page is present in the app — without making any claim about crypto acceptance.

London Bet provides a regulated environment for the traditional sports player, but it does not facilitate crypto deposits, making it a standard choice for those who fund their account with sterling.

bet365 — The High-Volume UK Sportsbook With a Sterling-Only Cashier

bet365’s UK gambling products are operated by Hillside (UK Gaming) Limited on a Commission licence visible on the public register. The brand is the official global betting partner of the UEFA Champions League and the most-downloaded sports betting app in the UK. The cashier is built around debit cards, bank transfer and a small set of e-wallets; the brand’s public materials make no mention of an Ethereum rail. Identity verification, GAMSTOP and the Commission’s safer-gambling code are all in place.

For a punter, bet365’s case for the slot is scale and market depth rather than the cashier. The brand closes that case for the crypto question on the strength of its product and licensing alone.

Sky Bet — The Free-Bet-Heavy UK Retailer With a Bank-Focused Cashier

Sky Bet is operated for the UK market by Bonne Terre Limited under a Commission licence visible on the public register. The brand’s welcome offer is the canonical three £10 free bet tokens after a £5 deposit and a first single or each-way bet of at least 5p at odds of 1/1 or greater. The cashier lists debit cards and selected bank-based methods and names nothing on the crypto side. Sky Bet’s UK site carries the full safer-gambling stack: deposit limits, product restrictions, self-exclusion and live links to BeGambleAware, GamCare, GAMSTOP and the National Gambling Helpline.

For a punter who prioritises the standard GB-licensed experience and regular free-bet offers, Sky Bet is a top option; however, the operator’s cashier does not list Ethereum, and punters are limited to more conventional banking methods.

Paddy Power / Betfair — The Two-Headed Flutter Brand on Standard Rails

Paddy Power and Betfair sit on the same Flutter group licences, with the Commission’s public register returning the operative accounts for each trading name. The cashier across the group is built around cards and bank rails, with Betfair’s exchange running on the betting-intermediary category and Paddy Power running on the standard remote general betting standard. Neither publishes an Ethereum deposit rail. The Flutter safer-gambling toolkit — deposit limits, the Flutter “Playing Safe” page, GAMSTOP — is in place across both brands.

For the crypto question this page is built around, neither Paddy Power nor Betfair is the answer. For the question “where can I bet with a UK licence”, both are cornerstones and should stay on the shelf.

Spreadex — The Hybrid Spread-Bet / Fixed-Odds Shop

Spreadex has a curious regulatory posture: it is regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for spread betting and by the Gambling Commission for fixed-odds betting. The fixed-odds brand is the bookmaker for the purposes of this page. The cashier lists cards and a small number of e-wallets, with no published Ethereum rail. Spreadex’s published reminder, that “spread betting losses can exceed the deposit”, is the safer-gambling point worth carrying into the spread product; the fixed-odds book runs under the standard Commission protection regime.

For the crypto question, Spreadex is in the same place as the rest of the licensed pool. The hybrid of FCA and Commission regulation is interesting in its own right and worth knowing for any punter shopping between regulated products.

Unibet — The Nordic-Across-Europe Brand With a Lighter Crypto Trail

Unibet’s UK site is run by Platinum Gaming Limited, Gibraltar, under Commission account 45322, and the brand states it has operated since 1999. The UK cashier lists debit cards, bank transfer and selected e-wallets; the safer-gambling page names deposit limits, the Player Profile test, product restrictions, self-exclusion, live-chat support and links to BeGambleAware, GamCare, GAMSTOP, Gambling Therapy and the BGC. Unibet has, over the years, run with a wider product set than most UK-licensed books, including a casino and poker room on the same Commission account, and the safer-gambling toolkit reflects that.

For a punter looking for the slicker end of the Commission-licensed pool, Unibet fits. For a punter looking for an Ether deposit rail, the cashier is honest: not published.

BoyleSports — The Irish-Origin UK Brand With a Standard Cashier

BoyleSports runs in the UK through BoyleSports (Gibraltar) Limited under a Commission licence visible on the public register. The sports welcome offer for UK players is £20 in free bets when a £10 qualifying bet is placed (€30 in free bets for a €10 qualifying bet for Irish players). The cashier runs on debit cards and bank rails with no published Ethereum deposit method. BoyleSports’ safer-gambling toolkit covers the Commission’s standard requirements.

For the crypto question, BoyleSports is in the same set as the rest of the licensed pool. The brand’s strengths for the punter sit in the offer and the racing product rather than the cashier.

Kalooki Sportsbook — The Newer GB-Licensed Brand

Kalooki Sportsbook is operated by Kalooki Sports Book Ltd (company number 12938274) and licensed by the Gambling Commission under account number 57730. The brand is among the smaller Commission-licensed books to add a sportsbook in recent years, with the cashier built around debit cards and bank-based methods. The brand is a GAMSTOP member and goes through the Commission’s identity checks before the first deposit. There is no public mention of an Ethereum deposit rail.

For a punter seeking the protection of the Commission’s oversight, Kalooki is a solid entry, although the cashier relies on traditional methods rather than blockchain-based payments.

Midnite — The Esports-First UK Brand on a Standard Cashier

Midnite’s site cites Commission licence 101839 and the in-play page shows pre-match and in-play events, an acca builder, popular accas and price-boost tokens with maximum-stake limits. The cashier is built around debit cards and bank rails, with GAMSTOP and identity verification in place under the standard Commission regime. Midnite’s esports posture is its difference from the rest of the table; the rest of the offering sits within the normal Commission-licensed bookmaker product.

For the crypto question this page is built around, Midnite is no closer to an Ether rail than the rest of the licensed pool. For a punter who wants a Commission-licensed operator with a deep esports offering, Midnite earns its slot in the comparison.

Sporting Index, Fafabet, NetBet, Vbet and Kwiff — The Wider Licensed Pool

The remaining brands reviewed below — Sporting Index, Fafabet, NetBet, Vbet and Kwiff — sit on Commission licences in good standing on the public register. Each lists cards and bank rails at the cashier. Where their published welcome offer is the headline, the page records it without printing a code: Sporting Index’s new-customer pack unlocks a £10 fixed-odds bet at minimum odds of 1/2 on three £10 fixed-odds free bets, three £5 Total Goals spread bets, three £5 Winning Favourites spread bets and a £1 Race Index spread bet, with the qualifying bet excluded from in-play and cash-out; Fafabet pays Best Odds Guaranteed on UK and Irish horse racing win and each-way bets from 9am on race days, paying the starting price if it is greater than the original; NetBet describes itself around Daily Boosts, Profit Boosts, free bet offers and a Bet Builder with instant dynamic odds; Vbet’s sports welcome offer is a £10 free bet if a new, verified customer stakes £10 or more on a first-ever bet that loses; Kwiff is licensed by the Commission and is described by the operator as a trademark of Spryme Ltd, with a 17+ App Store age rating.

Across this row of the comparison, the cashier is the same honest “cards and bank rails; no published Ethereum deposit method” reading as the rest of the licensed pool. The brands vary in product and welcome offer; on the page’s central question they hold to a single line.

What It Costs a Punter to Walk Past the Licence

Stepping outside the Commission’s register to chase a bookmaker that openly takes Ether is the choice the rest of this page warns against. The page does not say the choice is illegal, because the Commission’s offence under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005 aims at the operator, not the customer; it says the choice is unprotected in ways that matter. Six protections disappear at the unlicensed cashier.

No GAMSTOP enrolment. Even if the punter self-excludes through the multi-operator scheme, the offshore site is under no obligation to honour it. A punter recovering from a problematic betting history should treat self-exclusion as a binding line, and only Commission-licensed sites are bound to it.

No approved dispute-resolution route. When a book withholds funds or refuses a settled winning, the punter’s only routes are the courts of the operator’s jurisdiction (Curaçao, Anjouan, occasionally the Isle of Man) and the operator’s own complaints process. The Commission routes disputes for its licensees; the ASA routes advertising complaints. Both are unavailable offshore.

No 10x wagering cap on bonuses. The Commission’s January 2026 promotion rules cap bonus wagering at 10x and ban mixed-product offers (a free-spin offer tied to a betting registration, for example). An offshore brand can offer any wagering multiple it likes and any mixed-product offer it likes — and the question to ask is how sharp the offer is, not how generous.

No £150 financial vulnerability check at the operator. The Commission’s vulnerability check is a LCCP requirement. An offshore brand’s own terms decide whether it does that check.

No ASA route on misleading marketing. The CAP Code, enforced by the ASA, covers marketing aimed at UK consumers by any firm. That is the one protection that travels across the offshore boundary — but its teeth are slow, not preventive.

No British consumer-protection regime if funds are withheld. A licensed operator sits within UK jurisdiction; an offshore operator does not, and a UK resident who needs to enforce a settlement is asking a foreign court to do it, on that court’s terms.

None of that is a moral judgement on the offshore site, and the page does not pretend it is. It is the description of what the punter trades when the licence box is unticked, and the punter who understands the trade-off is a better customer to themselves than the one who does not.

The Bookmaker’s Margin, the Bonus and the Bet: Three Numbers Worth Knowing

Three numbers shape how every GB-licensed brand trades against the punter: the bookmaker’s margin, the bonus’s wagering multiple, and the cap on free-bet winnings. Each appears on the page below in terms the brands publish.

The bookmaker’s margin

The margin on a market is the share of every £1 staked across all outcomes that the bookmaker keeps as profit in expectation. A bookmaker offering 1.50, 3.50 and 7.00 on a three-way football market has a payout share that adds up to less than 100%, with the gap being the margin. The Commission’s licence does not set a ceiling on it. The margin on the licence is the brand’s own pricing call, and a brand that prices for a thrifty punter will be visibly tighter than one that prices for a casual one. Higher-margin markets tend to be novelty markets and smaller leagues; lower-margin markets tend to be top-flight football, the Premier League and Champions League and the major horse-racing meetings.

The bonus’s wagering multiple

Since the Commission’s promotion rules came in on 19 January 2026, no bonus at a Commission-licensed operator can carry a wagering requirement above 10x, and no offer can be tied across product types (a free-spins offer tied to a qualifying bet, for instance). That is a hard ceiling, and any brand running a higher multiple than 10x is offering something outside the licensed pool. For a punter, the implication is that the calculation below — bonus base × multiplier — takes a stake the punter would have to put down through the brand’s markets to clear the bonus. A £10 bonus at 10x is a £100 turnover requirement, against a £500 turnover at the previous 50x multiple.

The cap on free-bet winnings and “what a free bet is worth”

A free bet whose stake is not paid back on a win is worth less than it looks. On a win at odds of 3.00 with a £10 free bet token, the punter collects £30 in profit, not £30 in return, because the £10 stake does not return. That is the published rule across the comparison above. A cap on the *winnings* of a free-bet offer (a “winnings capped at £X” small print) is a further cut into the value. Free bets with no wagering condition are a different product again; the multiple on those has not been capped by the Commission and the page reads them as the brand describes them.

The qualitative point: “free bet” is the marketing term; “stake-not-returned free bet with a winnings cap on top of a 10x turnover rule” is the realised term. That gap is where the punter’s edge can come from, or where the brand’s edge can come from — depending on which side of the calculation the punter ends up.

What This Page Recommends, and Why It Reads the Way It Does

The page walks ten Commission-licensed brands one at a time, and the page’s verdict on the question “is there a licensed UK bookmaker I can fund in Ether” is short: across the ten brands reviewed, none publish an Ether deposit rail in the cashier the registered brand presents. That is not a verdict on crypto; it is a verdict on what the licensed brands in this comparison have published. Crypto-friendly UK books do exist at the edge of the Commission’s framework, and the punter who wants one is reading the right page at the wrong cabinet — the cashier is where the answer sits, not the search-engine result.

The broader verdict the page offers: a GB punter is well-served by this set on product depth, racing and football coverage, welcome offers, safer-gambling tooling and dispute resolution. The crypto rail is not in that set. A GB punter holding Ether has two practical routes, and each comes with a caveat. The first is to acquire the Ether at a regulated venue (an FCA-registered exchange), sell it for pounds, deposit through one of the licensed brands above and accept the CGT event on disposal at sale time. The second is to take the punter’s business outside the Commission’s pool, which trades off the six protections listed in the section above. Either route is the punter’s call; the page’s job is to make the trade-offs legible so the call can be made well.

The FAQ: Five Questions a Punter Holds Heading In

The questions below are the ones a punter shopping for an Ethereum-friendly book typically opens a tab with. Each is answered in a single short paragraph.

Frequently asked questions

Can you bet against Ethereum?

Yes, in the literal sense of placing a bet with a bookmaker that takes Ether. In the strict Great Britain sense, the question runs two ways: licensed operators accept payments at their own discretion, and the Commission’s published register names no licensed brand whose public cashier lists Ether as a deposit currency. Several offshore books do take ETH, but doing so removes the Commission’s protections and the British safer-gambling regime, which is a working trade-off rather than a marginal one.

Can you lose on Ethereum betting?

Yes, exactly as on a sterling-funded bet. The bookmaker’s margin is taken out of every market’s price whether the punter pays in pounds or in Ether. On top of that, Ether’s volatility between deposit and settlement can move the realised value of a stake, and the asset’s history of exchange failures and wallet compromises is a documented risk that the Commission’s own digital-currencies guidance flags. The volatility risk lives on top of the bet, not inside it.

Can you use Ethereum in betting shops?

No. Betting shops take cash and, in most shops, debit cards at the counter. The Commission’s safer-gambling and identity-verification regimes that apply online do not run through a betting shop’s cashier at all. Any brand offering to take ETH in a shop on the punter’s behalf is operating outside the regulated pool and the protection that comes with it.

What does a player lose by betting on a site without a Gambling Commission licence?

The single sentence: the six protections named in the previous section — GAMSTOP enrolment, ASA-route advertising oversight, the Commission’s approved dispute-resolution routes, the 10x bonus wagering cap and the mixed-product-offer ban, the LCCP vulnerability check at the £150 net-deposit threshold, and British consumer-protection enforcement on a withheld fund. The Commission considers operating without the licence an offence under section 33 of the Gambling Act 2005; enforcement aims at the operator, not at the customer.

How can it be checked that a bookmaker holds a Gambling Commission licence?

Visit the Commission’s public register, which can be searched by business name, trading name, account number or domain. The register returns the licence category (the most common sports-betting one is “remote general betting standard — real events”), the licence holder, the trading name and the licence status. The check takes a minute; it is the only place the licence status of any brand can be definitively confirmed, and the check is worth doing before any first deposit, with crypto or otherwise.

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