Dice, Guilds, and the Weight of a Wager

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2026-04-29 09:02:32 -

The Dutch have never treated chance lightly. Centuries before the first regulated gaming hall opened on European soil, merchants in Amsterdam were placing bets on cargo ships that might sink before reaching the harbor — a practice so normalized it blurred the line between commerce and speculation almost completely. Risk was embedded in the architecture of Dutch civic life, not as a vice...

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