How Blockchain Helps Secure Crypto Casinos 

Online gambling and cryptocurrencies have both experienced a steady rise over the past decade or so. Naturally, the merger of the two has also increased in popularity, and crypto casinos are experiencing significant growth. 

Nevertheless, many casino fans still view crypto casinos and blockchain in general as something unfamiliar and untrustworthy. So, here we’ll explore exactly why and how blockchain helps secure crypto casinos, as well as how such casinos have several key advantages over regular online casinos.

1. Secure Transactions via Advanced Encryption on Digital Coins

The digital coins used as currency in crypto casinos have a significant benefit over the traditional currency used in other online casinos. That benefit lies in the advanced encryption techniques available through blockchain that can make all crypto transactions in an online casino virtually 100% secure. This includes all types of casino transactions – entry fees, bids, profits, and even major jackpots.

This layer of security alone is a huge game-changer for many, as traditional online casinos sometimes suffer from transaction issues and theft that turn a lot of people away. What’s more, traditional web casinos are no strangers to simple transaction bugs and issues, which further erodes players’ trust. 

2. Anonymity and No Private Data Collection

The next major benefit of crypto casinos is the total anonymity they provide because many do not enforce KYC (know your customer) protocols. In other words, you don’t need to provide your real name and personal details—which is not true of traditional online casinos. This encryption ensures the casino doesn’t collect any personal or financial data from you and doesn’t track your IP address.

Though rare, some traditional online casinos have used such personal data for marketing purposes or sold it to third-party companies without their players’ consent. Even more crucially, if your state or country has stringent online casino laws, the fact that your IP address can be tracked without the encryption provided by blockchain could get you into legal trouble.

You can always use a VPN too, of course, but crypto casinos can circle around that entire headache and keep your identity completely secure while you play.

3. No Data Breaches

Stories of data breaches have been relatively common in the online gambling world for years. Needless to say, such issues go beyond just your data being used for marketing purposes. According to reports, there were 42 separate data breaches at online casinos across the globe in 2022 alone. This may not sound like much, but these breaches exposed the data of over 368 million users worldwide to hackers.

Blockchain makes such problems impossible in crypto casinos, as it not only keeps your data private but also records all transactions on a decentralized network of PCs rather than in a central hub. This makes it all but impossible for hackers to manipulate your data or mount any type of successful breach of the casino as a whole. 

4. Transaction Transparency

By its very nature, blockchain is a “decentralized ledger technology.” In other words, the entire network of independent PCs is the “ledger” itself. This makes the information housed on the blockchain more secure against security breaches and more transparent at the same time.

That’s because, although no one can access your private information on the blockchain, everyone can verify the validity of a particular transaction. 

5. Zero-Knowledge Protocol

Zero-knowledge proofs, also known as zero-knowledge protocol or simply ZKP, are arguably one of blockchain’s most significant security advantages. Zero-knowledge protocol is a cryptographic technique that allows users to prove they possess things, such as a private key or another type of sensitive information, without exposing the information itself to any risk of theft. 

This has proven priceless in crypto casinos, as it makes it much harder for hackers to access personal and financial data. This can seem trivial at first, but the majority of online transactions don’t do this. Instead, verifying the possession of something or even just the validity of a certain statement typically involves revealing at least some sensitive information about said possession.

With ZKP, however, both the casino and the player can prove the validity of a transaction or the possession of an amount of money without exposing any personal information in the process. 

6. Fair Algorithms

All of the above leads to another great benefit of blockchain – fair gambling algorithms. This isn’t an immediate “security” benefit in terms of protecting you from hacking or third-party theft, but it does keep the player secure from unfair gambling algorithms and practices.

The way blockchain accomplishes this is similar to how it does most of the above – by ensuring near-complete transparency between the casino and the players. This doesn’t mean that crypto casinos can end up “losing” money to a large group of really lucky players, of course. The chances to win at online casinos are still such that the house always goes on top. However, blockchain ensures that the chances to win and the RTP percentage (return to player) are always as advertised.

Conclusion

The benefits of blockchain in online casinos go beyond security and privacy too, but that’s a different topic. Online casinos are an extensive and complicated subject to explore in a single article, and there are countless books, vlogs, and sites like casinos.com that offer guides and insight into how they work.

By the same token, proponents of traditional online casinos have their arguments against the use of crypto in gambling, which further widens the scope of the discussion. The entire casino industry and how aspects of it have merged with blockchain are also subjects, as technologies and people’s preferences both continue to evolve every year.