{"id":648880,"date":"2026-08-26T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=842571"},"modified":"2026-08-26T20:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T20:10:10","slug":"uk-gambling-lobby-puts-illegal-premier-league-bets-at-1-09b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/26\/uk-gambling-lobby-puts-illegal-premier-league-bets-at-1-09b\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Gambling Lobby Puts Illegal Premier League Bets at $1.09B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/uk-gambling-lobby-puts-illegal-premier-league-bets-at-1-09b-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"UK Gambling Lobby Puts Illegal Premier League Bets at $1.09B\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>The UK&#8217;s Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) says unlicensed operators could take up to $1.09 billion in Premier League wagers this season, rising to about $1.36 billion once a betting tax increase lands in April 2027. The trade body published no methodology and named no source for either figure. The researcher it cites elsewhere in [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK&#8217;s Betting and Gaming Council (BGC) says unlicensed operators could take up to $1.09 billion in Premier League wagers this season, rising to about $1.36 billion once a betting tax increase lands in April 2027. The trade body published no methodology and named no source for either figure. The researcher it cites elsewhere in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-648880","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\/648880","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=648880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}