{"id":597919,"date":"2026-05-12T06:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=813287"},"modified":"2026-05-12T06:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T06:30:32","slug":"uk-gambling-commission-posts-65000-job-to-hunt-16-6b-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/12\/uk-gambling-commission-posts-65000-job-to-hunt-16-6b-black-market\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Gambling Commission Posts \u00a365,000 Job to Hunt \u00a316.6B Black Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/uk-gambling-commission-posts-65000-job-to-hunt-16-6b-black-market-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"UK Gambling Commission Posts \u00a365,000 Job to Hunt \u00a316.6B Black Market\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The Gambling Commission posted a new senior \u201cHead of Illegal Markets\u201d role, with a \u00a365,000 salary, as research surfaced by the Betting and Gaming Council confirmed the UK black market has grown to \u00a316.6 billion in 2025, more than tripling from 2019. The hire arrives during a CEO transition period at the regulator and amid [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gambling Commission posted a new senior \u201cHead of Illegal Markets\u201d role, with a \u00a365,000 salary, as research surfaced by the Betting and Gaming Council confirmed the UK black market has grown to \u00a316.6 billion in 2025, more than tripling from 2019. The hire arrives during a CEO transition period at the regulator and amid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-597919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}