If you're interested in betting a few dollars on the UFC fight this weekend, you can do it on the Hive blockchain! Thanks to @dublup and dublup.io, it's easy to make the fights a little more interesting.
The market for this week's fight can be found here.
My money is on Whittaker by KO/TKO, but looking at these stats, I don't know if it's a smart bet. I'm pretty new to sports betting.
Dublup uses PAL for bets. If you'd like to bet on the fight but don't have any PAL, I think I've found the best price for PAL on TribalDex. Instead of using the normal token market, the Diesel Pool gave me a much better price.
To use it, go to TribalDex and log in. Deposit some Hive into your account. It will give you Swap.Hive.
Next, go to Pools (1), and make sure you're on the Swap page (2). Change the From section to SWAP.HIVE (3), and the To section to PAL (4). Last, type in how much Hive you want to convert into PAL (5). It will show you how much PAL you will receive in the To section.
Not shown in the screenshot is the big blue Swap button at the bottom of the page. Click it and the PAL should be in your Hive-Engine wallet. One time the swap button gave me an error about slippage so I had to click on 1% then it went through.
After you have some PAL in your wallet, go to the dublup.io market and choose who and how the fight will be decided. Choose how many shares you want to buy (1 share costs 10 PAL).
After the last fight, it took about a day before the Oracles reported the results of the fight and my winnings were deposited into my Hive-Engine wallet.
I hope to see some of you betting against me on the fight! I'm not affiliated with dublup or Tribaldex. And I'm really not that into betting. For me it's just about making the fights a little more exciting by having some skin in the game.
If you want to make your own markets for other fights or other sports, it's pretty easy and I can answer questions if you like. It costs 50 PAL to create a new market. I don't know if that fee goes to dublup.io or if it goes to the winners.
Done and done!
I may have to throw another share or two in there though. :)