Originally posted on 03/03/2022:

You need offshore if you want to bet on anything somewhat unconventional/controversial. Can't bet on election results outside of the Iowa model, for example, unless you do it offshore. Also, some of the more esoteric lines/markets, particularly 3rd world lower league or youth soccer, you pretty much can't find except offshore. I realize that most people are not betting Algerian 2nd tier U18 moneylines but for those of us who do, it's really offshore or nothing.

As for interoperability, the Nevada Gaming Board at least is making a lot of efforts in getting public workshops set up to amend the current regulations, but the problem is that they've rescheduled the same session like 4-5 times already due to COVID and even the last time when they passed the amendment was during the height of Omicron. But there's another problem: Nevada currently requires the digital infrastructure - namely the hosting services - of the system to be hosted in Nevada and be strictly regulated in a kafkaesque and onerous manner. There are a lot of datacenters here in Vegas of course, but none of the major operators - AWS or Google or MS Azure - maintain most of their infrastructure here. Google had been trying to expand but ran right into the start of COVID and even if a gaming operator happens to already use GC, not only would they still need to migrate their infrastructure onto the west-4 region (not the cheapest one, that's for sure), and then the gaming commission is supposed to document and keep tabs on employees and actual physical infrastructure of the datacenter itself, and also force the casinos to run parallel sets of infrastructure if they already have something set up, which every large provider does. The regulations are really about having in-house infrastructure for casinos but on the scale we're talking about now, it'll either be prohibitively expensive or implemented in a hilariously shoddy way on the cheap. So they're working on that part of the regulations, but since we're addressing issues that were first scheduled to be worked on 2 years ago, it's really not clear as to when Nevada will be able to get in line with the rest of the country. Feel free to follow the snail-like pace of regulatory reform (and submit public comments, it's the primary way the public can influence regulatory action on any level, federal or state) at https://gaming.nv.gov/index.aspx?page=16

tl;dr: if you're thinking about going to law school, don't go into administrative law, it's bdsm without any of the fun.