4/8 - So the studio leaned in. Open Road Films teamed with MovieTickets.com and payment processor GoCoin to let fans buy tickets in Bitcoin at over 900 of the ~2,000 US theaters showing the film. It was the first theatrically released movie you could pay to see in Bitcoin.

Richard Skelhorn: From £400 Debt to Casino Empire and Financial Freedom – The Inspiring Story of a Gambling VisionaryRichard “Skel” Skelhorn, born in April 1980 in the United Kingdom, is one of the most successful and quietly influential entrepreneurs in the online gaming and casino industry. With over 26 years in the sector, he transformed a £400 credit card debt into a multimillion-pound empire, complete with billion-pound (and dollar) exits, record-breaking luxury properties, and a life of absolute financial freedom. His X profile @Skelhorn Reveal a man who builds, overcomes, and celebrates — always focused on “building the best casino” and inspiring others with brutal transparency.Childhood and Humble Beginnings: The Young Man Who Chose Work Over UniversityDetailed information about Skelhorn’s early childhood is scarce — he keeps his first years private — but the family context is revealing. Born in 1980, likely into a British middle-class family (his father had a formal job that was later made redundant), he chose entrepreneurship early. In his early 20s, while many were heading to university, Skelhorn dove into the emerging world of online casino affiliates (around 2000–2001).“I started with £400 on my credit card limit and built my first casino affiliate site with no external investment,” he recalls. By age 23 (~2003), he was already earning enough to retire his father — he picked him up from his last day of work in a Ferrari 360, bought his parents a beautiful house in Marbella, Spain, and secured them a perfect retirement. “I helped create the best memories, although I never felt fully appreciated. Your parents are the hardest to please… but the ones you always want to please.” This family gratitude marks his journey: he values “pay it forward” and dreams that his son will do the same for him in 10 years.It was pure overcoming: no capital, no network, just grit and perfect timing during the early 2000s online gambling affiliate boom.Explosive Rise: From Affiliates to First Major Success (2001–2014)Skelhorn was one of the pioneers of online gambling affiliates. He built and scaled casino, bingo, and affiliate sites focused on the UK market. In 2007, he co-founded Tournament.com in Norwich (with Alex Holt and Marcus Pearcey): an innovative skill-gaming platform with cash prizes, exclusive Valve rights for Counter-Strike, and more. Although suspended in November 2007 due to infrastructure costs and player hesitation to deposit, the experience solidified his expertise. He and Holt then founded BGO (Bingo Gaming Online).In 2009, he launched Costa Bingo (under Mandalay Media Group, based in Gibraltar and the Isle of Man, co-founded with Alex Holt). He rode the “free bingo” wave and turned the site into one of the busiest in the UK. In 2010, as CEO, he gave interviews celebrating aggressive growth through affiliates and marketing. In 2014, he sold Mandalay Media to the Intertain Group (later Gamesys, now part of 888) for £60 million — an epic exit achieved with no external capital.In parallel, BGO raised US$17 million with Playtech’s participation. He kept building: in 2015 he founded the Atemi Group (focused on betting comparison and affiliates), which he sold to Better Collective for £40 million in 2020. “I was an affiliate for nearly 20 years… while others were at university, I was working hard,” he summarizes. Total exits? He mentions selling a business for “100M” and reinvesting in successive cycles.Current Companies and Empire: Casinos, Sweepstakes, and InvestmentsSkelhorn never stops creating:MetaWin (crypto casino, founded/led by him in London): Famous for instant “frictionless” withdrawals (up to US$200k), trust, and innovation. In November 2024 it suffered a ~US$4 million hack on hot wallets (Ethereum/Solana). Skelhorn covered everything out of his own pocket (“I emptied my piggy bank”), temporarily disabled the site, called the FBI, offered a reward to the hacker who could identify the culprit, and kept building. “We’re not going to dwell on it. It’s in the hands of the feds and we’re adjusting internally.” Today it is one of the most respected names in crypto gambling. MW Services Limited (Gibraltar, co-founded with Christian Colton): Operates WOW Vegas (launched 2022, 2 million users, excellent Trustpilot rating), Rolla, MetaWin.us (2025), and CoinsBack (2026, with instant 50% 5% rakeback). Powerful American sweepstakes/social casinos with aggressive promotions and partnerships (e.g., Paris Hilton). Also includes Gladiator Studios, Fanbase, Betzoo. Others: Angel investor in GoCoin, bgocom, Underground Cellar, and dozens of startups in fintech, games, social casino, AI, etc. (based in Dubai). He openly promotes “CoinsBack Casino destroys the competition” and “Building the best casino” on X, with multi-million giveaways and a clean player-experience focus (no criminal streamers or toxic promotion).Epic Overcoming: Hack, Dark Industry Side, and ResilienceStarting with debt: £400 on the card → empire. US$4M Hack (2024): Instead of collapsing, he paid from his pocket, rewarded, fixed systems, and doubled down on transparency. Industry criticism: He publicly denounces the “celebrity problem” (criminal streamers, addicts), racism in chats, and problem gambling. “In 26 years I’ve seen it all. Using criminals to promote casinos is not the way.” Multiple build-sell-reinvest cycles: No initial venture capital, always bootstrap smart reinvestment (stocks, gold — he recently accumulated 850 kg —, real estate). Achievements, Luxury, and Life Today: Conquered Financial FreedomToday, Skelhorn lives the dream: no mortgage, no debts, no leases. “I sold all my stocks and most of my crypto, only gold, cash, and real estate. I never need to work again to sustain this. $50M view, paid house, paid cars.” He impulsively bought (1 a.m. in Dubai after beers) a 14,930 sq ft waterfront mansion on Palm Island, Miami, for US$45 million (island record, 2025) — 8 bedrooms, private dock, cinema, gym. He calls it his “new winter home.” He owns hypercars (BYD Yangwang U9 — first in the Western Hemisphere, shipped from China via Dubai to Miami), possibly Bugattis, boats for sale, and constant travel (Maldives 15% of the year, Monaco, LA, London).He invests in presence and purpose (“focus on what money can’t buy”). He remains active: hiring KOL managers, giving bonuses, playing and testing his own games (e.g., Candy Cash with a US$1.1M bonus buy), and inspiring: “I’m among the first affiliates from 2000… I’ve been building casinos for 26 years.”Lessons from an Extraordinary LifeRichard Skelhorn proves that timing relentless execution reinvestment transparency wins. From a young man in debt who retired his father at 23, to a magnate who overcomes million-dollar hacks, sells companies for tens of millions, and builds player-first casinos — he embodies the maxim: “Don’t dwell on it. Keep building.”His article (or book) has not yet been officially written, but his trajectory on social media, old interviews, and documented exits tell everything: persistence, vision, and gratitude. At 46 years old, Skelhorn is living proof that it is possible to start from zero, clean up your own industry, and still enjoy $50 million views with peace of mind.If you’re looking for inspiration to entrepreneur in digital or gambling, Skel is the blueprint. He doesn’t stop — and the best is yet to come (maybe more startups, maybe a SpaceX bag, maybe “the best casino in history”).“Life feels pretty good… but it’s time to focus on what money can’t buy. Presence.” — Richard Skelhorn. A living legend of British-global entrepreneurship in gambling. From nothing to everything — and still building.

🔹Meet @iamcryptobenz One of the Co-Founders of @Pact_Swap Eric Benz is not a loud, hype-driven crypto founder. He operates at the infrastructure layer, where onboarding, liquidity access, and capital markets intersect. Professionally, Benz is positioned as a serial entrepreneur and digital asset strategist. His career at key infrastructure touchpoints of the crypto industry exchanges, payment bridges, and now public-market Bitcoin treasury exposure. 🔹Overview of His Life. • Name: Eric Benz. • Education: British American College. • Profession: Serial Entrepreneur, Digital Asset Strategist, Investor, Advisor, CEO in Crypto/Fintech/Web3/AI. • Active since: Early 2010s in the crypto and digital asset sector. 🔹Early Career. Public data on his earliest ventures is limited. LinkedIn-level disclosures indicate involvement in fintech and digital payments prior to his exchange leadership phase. No major tech exits or publicly verifiable large-scale IPO founder roles are documented from this phase. Uncertainty: Detailed early startup performance metrics are not publicly disclosed. 🔹Industry Entry (Crypto Expansion Era). - Key visible leadership role: • Former CEO of @Changelly_team And Senior leader at Bitcoin dot com. - At Changelly: • Focused on crypto-to-crypto swaps. • Strengthened fiat on-ramp integration through partnerships like MoonPay. • Positioned the platform toward retail accessibility and UX simplification. - Important distinction: • He was leading operations and strategy, not building exchange infrastructure himself. - Role classification during this phase: • Operator Strategic Executive. 🔹Expansion / Ecosystem Positioning. • Involvement in advisory/investor capacities with firms such as: • Uphold. • GoCoin. • Mynt vc (UK-based VC vehicle; limited public data available) - This phase reflects: • Network expansion. • Board-level positioning. • Exposure across payments, exchange, and fintech infrastructure. No clear record of founding a Layer 1, DeFi protocol, or technical breakthrough product. - Role classification: • Capital allocator strategic advisor. 🔹Current Position. - CEO of Vaultz Capital PLC (AQSE-listed). Strategic direction: • Public-market Bitcoin treasury exposure. • Cloud mining infrastructure hybrid model. • Corporate digital asset balance sheet strategy. • This is a financial positioning play, not a protocol innovation play. - He is operating at the intersection of: • Public markets × Bitcoin treasury × Mining infrastructure narrative. - Role classification: • Public-company executive digital asset strategist. 🔹Investment Intelligence. - Major Bets. • Exchange UX infrastructure. • Fiat on-ramp integration. • Bitcoin treasury models. • Cloud mining exposure. - Sector Focus. • Retail accessibility compliant infrastructure treasury positioning. - Pattern Recognition. • He consistently operates where: • Adoption meets financial rails. • He is not chasing experimental DeFi primitives. • He is focused on monetizable access layers. 🔹What Gives Him an Edge. • Timing: Entered during infrastructure build-out years. • Network: Exchange, payment processors, public market contacts. • Positioning skill: Aligns with macro narratives (retail adoption → treasury adoption). • His advantage is strategic alignment, not technical invention. 🔹Their Actual Strategic Value. If applied to a project like Pact Swap or similar infrastructure: - He would contribute: • Market positioning. • Fiat on-ramp integrations. • Public market structuring insight. • Strategic partnerships - He would not contribute: • Core protocol engineering. • Cross-chain cryptography design. • Smart contract architecture.

Always Playnance! Always GOCoin!

Found another consensus bug on gocoin with bitcoinfuzz. gocoin was incorrectly parsing OP_PUSHDATA4, using Uint16 instead of Uint32.

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Newest bug found by bitcoinfuzz 🏆 Gocoin incorrectly parsing OP_0NOTEQUAL opcode Gocoin is a full Bitcoin solution written entirely from scratch in Go language with zero dependencies, according to their website. Perhaps the second Bitcoin implementation, if I’m not mistaken. Doing differential fuzzing, I figured out that when evaluating a script and parsing the OP_0NOTEQUAL, gocoin was incorrectly accepting values longer than 4 bytes because it was using `pop` to get the element instead of using `popInt`, making it to accept invalid scripts.

交易所可能倒闭，但是dgb币从2014年年一直生存到现在，也是有一定价值的。Travala：这是一个支持多种加密货币支付的旅行平台，用户可以使用 DGB 等加密货币来预订机票、酒店、度假等旅行服务。 GoCoin：一个提供加密货币支付服务的支付网关，包括 DigiByte。商家可以通过这个平台接收 DGB 支付。

Not running gocoin

Full validation sync of Gocoin 1.11.0 on my benchmark machine crashes at block 860,800 after 11 hours 6 minutes due to running out of memory.

Running gocoin

BOND THE GOCOIN

Interesting. So the founder of $Gocoin was accused of being involved w sexual abuse but only DEX exclusives got convited, maybe he was just lucky?\?

Damn Bro, he literally said to buy GoCoin. GAS IT.🚀 7a3xCphABjkkoPeapq4dks8BsJT6Azdgv8soGuPwpump

After looking through some of the Epstine Files we found out that Epstine has laundered Money through "GoCoin". GoCoin used to be a payment gateway for online and retail merchants to accept bitcoin as a payment method. As of now it is CLOSED. It's only fair that we send the only "coin" besides majors mentioned in the Epstine Files 7a3xCphABjkkoPeapq4dks8BsJT6Azdgv8soGuPwpump

$Gocoin can go higher, just need some vol

$Gocoin go moon

prob fake epstein shit but that gocoin pump addy got me curious

The epstein files also talk about GoCoin: github.com/HarleyCoops/Trump…