Cryptocurrency offers several advantages for online gambling, including anonymity and security, fast read transactions, and low fees. These advantages have made cryptocurrency gambling especially popular in Asia, where online gambling is often frowned upon by authorities, despite its massive popularity. In this context, crypto appears as a logical extension. It offers users a sense of financial agency amid widespread precarity. For people excluded from traditional finance or disillusioned with institutional systems, cryptocurrency promises access, autonomy and even transformation. The user is cast as an entrepreneur of the self, navigating risk in hopes of reward. “I have only $100 to put in. My wife stays home with our baby and I work full time and do delivery apps on weekends to make extra.”