{"id":668336,"date":"2026-10-09T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T00:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=854547"},"modified":"2026-10-09T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T00:03:56","slug":"satoshis-abandoned-poker-experiment-returns-with-a-bitcoin-twist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/10\/09\/satoshis-abandoned-poker-experiment-returns-with-a-bitcoin-twist\/","title":{"rendered":"Satoshi\u2019s Abandoned Poker Experiment Returns With a Bitcoin Twist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/satoshis-abandoned-poker-experiment-returns-with-a-bitcoin-twist-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Bitcoin Poker white paper screenshot.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Nearly 18 years after Satoshi Nakamoto left an unfinished poker interface buried inside Bitcoin&#8217;s original software, researcher Robin Linus has developed a cryptographic protocol that makes the game possible. His Bitcoin Poker design allows two people to play Texas Hold&#8217;em without a dealer, privately generate cards, and enforce payouts through Bitcoin&#8217;s existing rules. The catch [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 18 years after Satoshi Nakamoto left an unfinished poker interface buried inside Bitcoin&#8217;s original software, researcher Robin Linus has developed a cryptographic protocol that makes the game possible. His Bitcoin Poker design allows two people to play Texas Hold&#8217;em without a dealer, privately generate cards, and enforce payouts through Bitcoin&#8217;s existing rules. The catch [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":668337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-668336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668336","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=668336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}