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Priya Raman

Sports Betting & Asia Markets Editor

Priya Raman

Priya covers crypto sports betting and the country guides for South, Southeast and East Asia on Best Bitcoin Casino.

On the sports side she writes the crypto sportsbook hub and the cricket, football and esports pages. She checks which sportsbooks actually show live markets for a sport before listing them, explains how odds formats and settlement rules work, and works through the maths of a bet in crypto, including what happens to the value of a winning stake when the coin moves.

Her country guides cover India, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Japan and South Korea. Each one starts with the law: the statute by name and year, the regulator, what is prohibited for operators and for players, recent enforcement, and the tax on gambling winnings and crypto gains. She works from the statute text and regulators' own notices rather than from other gambling sites, and she corrects the common myths those sites repeat, such as calling a country a "grey area" after its courts or parliament have settled the question.

In countries where offshore online gambling is prohibited, her pages are informational only: they explain the rules, the risks and where to find help, and they never tell readers how to get around blocks.

Every page Priya writes lists its sources and is fact-checked by Elena Márquez before it is published.

Crypto Casinos in South Korea: What the Law Says (2026)

South Korean law treats betting at an online casino as gambling under the Criminal Act, so playing at a crypto casino from Korea is illegal whether you deposit won, bitcoin or USDT. Korea licenses no online casinos. Korean citizens may legally play casino games in exactly one place, the Kangwon Land resort in Gangwon Province, … Read more

Crypto Casinos in Japan: Law, Tax and Risks in 2026

Gambling at an online casino from Japan is a criminal offence under Article 185 of the Penal Code, and that stays true when the site holds a foreign licence and takes bitcoin, ETH or USDT instead of yen. Japan issues no online casino licences at all. The only casinos the law will allow are land-based … Read more

Bitcoin Esports Betting: Crypto Esports Sites (October 2026)

The best place to bet on esports with Bitcoin in October 2026 is a crypto sportsbook with a dedicated esports section, such as Stake, BC.Game or FortuneJack. All three list Counter-Strike 2, League of Legends, Dota 2 and Valorant markets, accept Bitcoin and other coins, and hold licences we checked on 7 October 2026. This … Read more