DLT Financial, a start-up based in London, is planning to roll out a fund tracker targeting an index of digital currencies, including bitcoin, in hopes of making the virtual coins “a more attractive investment asset class,” Reuters reported.

The index covers 10 cryptocurrencies, according to the report. Aside from bitcoin, there’s also ether and Ripple, a digital currency for bank-to-bank payments. The company plans to use the cold storage method—essentially taking data offline and storing it in hard drives—to minimize the risk of hacks.

Dave Askey, co-founder of DLT Financial, said the goal is to “bridge the gap” between blockchain technology and the “traditional institutional investment community.”

“Currently it’s really very hard to invest in these assets as a pretty deep technical knowledge is needed to buy and manage them. We want to bring (them) to the wider community,” Askey said, according to the news outlet.

The schedule for the final Brazilian Series of Poker Millions of all time is available online, and Connor Drinan continues his hot streak with a victory in the World Championships of Online Poker.

The Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) dates back to 2006, but it was 2012 when the tour had a spit polish thanks to a sponsorship deal with PokerStars. It was a smart move by Stars. Nowhere in the world is poker hotter than in Brazil except the summer jaunt to Las Vegas.

The relationship is set to end in its current form after PokerStars announced plans to renovate their live tournament network and bring everything underneath the umbrella of either PokerStars Championships or Festivals.

Before that happens, the BSOP Millions is preparing for one final hurrah. The 2016 schedule is live. The festival will consist of 36 tournaments of all shapes and sizes, and will take place in the Sheraton WTC in Sao Paulo Nov 22 – Dec 1.

World Series of Poker November Niner, Gordon Vayo, warmed up for his $8m date with destiny winning over half a million bucks in the River Poker Series; and Sean Yu, Erik Sagstrom and Josh Turner leave the World Series of Poker Circuit Festival in Planet Hollywood with reasons to be cheerful.

Gordon Vayo is set to skirr into the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event with more wind in his sails than most after picking up over half a million dollars in the $2.5m Guaranteed $2,500 buy-in River Poker Series at the Winstar Casino in Oklahoma.

Vayo is the first November Niner to pick up a significant live win since the summer, although Vojtech Ruzicka came close when he finished 24th in the recent European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event in Barcelona.

The organisers met the $2.5m Guarantee after 1,054 entrants paid their $2,500 dues. Despite the huge crowd, the final table was full of quality with the likes of Layne Flack, Grant Hinkle, Chino Rheem, Jeffrey Duvall and Danny Fuhs taking a pew.

Five podcasts that have absolutely nothing to do with poker but deserve the attention of the professional poker player.

I once learned about the world listening to pearls of wisdom spew forth from the idiot box. I had an awakening of sorts. The idiot box emigrated to the tip and my books took over. I thought that would be it, I mean, I can’t read all the books in the world, and there is so much to read, but lately another form of education has shown me some impressive intellectual cleavage.

Podcasts.

Smart people realise that time is the most precious commodity known to man unless you are that Matt Damon character stuck on Mars and then it’s potatoes. Creative use of your day is vital, and podcasts fill the white space better than any other form of ‘stuff’.

A convenience store owner says he wants his life to serve as a cautionary tale about the addictive lure of lottery tickets.

Adam Osmond, a 49-year-old accountant from Connecticut, used to own a convenience store. Osmond told the Daily Mail he started buying lottery tickets from his own shop due in part to the mind-numbing tedium of manning the cash register from dawn till dusk.

For years, Osmond’s lottery jones was satisfied by playing a few dollars’ worth per day. But gradually, his habit escalated to the point where he was spending “thousands” each week and reinvesting any winnings – along with his regular income – into more lottery tickets.

Osmond says his worst lottery-playing years were between 2002 and 2008, during which he played the lottery constantly, seven days a week. Osmond estimates that he lost over $1m playing the lottery and characterized his job as “like having your own casino, it was me and the machine all the time.”

Recent researches predicted that 40% of data centers will be outsourced by 2019, this reveals the skill set within an in-house team are changing radically.

The popularity of traditional bulky servers has diminished significantly over the last few years as the benefits of Cloud servers have become far more apparent. In fact, Cloud computing has demonstrated to help companies to make businesses more profitable and viable, whilst still simultaneously offering a high level of security.

How does this play out in iGaming?

Vasilije Skoro, Btobet’s Head of Product Development, stated:

Casino operator Caesars Entertainment has struck a deal to be first to bring Gamblit Gaming’s skill-based gaming devices to the casino floor.

On Wednesday, Caesars and Gamblit announced a multi-year deal that will see Gamblit’s Model G and Tristation positions deployed to Harrah’s Rincon in California. Assuming all goes well, Caesars plans to add 125 Gamblit products to its casinos in Nevada and a further 100 stations in other markets.

The new gaming positions will contain multiple themes and games, including Match 3 and word matching games. Future releases will include Gamblit’s ‘gamblified’ versions of video games like Catapult King and Into The Dead.

The companies say the games will be available in “dedicated entertainment spaces” at Caesars properties, in keeping with Caesars CEO Mark Frissora’s claim last September that the company was testing a millennial-focused ‘casino within a casino’ at one of its Las Vegas venues.