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Martin Moshal: Man who Coded iGaming before it was Cool

Before NetEnt made it glossy and Evolution made it live, one man was writing the code that would change online gambling forever: Martin Moshal, the mind behind Microgaming. He didn’t build casinos. He built the operating system they run on. Back in the ’90s, when the idea of betting online sounded more like a scam […]

Before NetEnt made it glossy and Evolution made it live, one man was writing the code that would change online gambling forever: Martin Moshal, the mind behind Microgaming.

He didn’t build casinos. He built the operating system they run on.

Back in the ’90s, when the idea of betting online sounded more like a scam than a business model, Martin Moshal quietly launched what is widely considered the world’s first true online casino software under Microgaming. This wasn’t just about slot games or blackjack tables. It was the architecture, the very foundation that allowed iGaming to exist in the first place.

Everyone talks about front-end glamour today: slick UIs, fast payouts, VR integrations. But none of it works without a backend capable of handling thousands of bets per second. That concept? Moshal wrote the playbook for it.

You’ll rarely see his name in splashy interviews or LinkedIn posts. But industry insiders know, Microgaming was the blueprint. The random number generators, the early game libraries, the licensing groundwork, it all started with Moshal’s vision of what digital betting could become.

If you’re studying iGaming history and leaving out Martin Moshal, you’re not studying history. You’re studying marketing. Because while the world watches new brands raise funding and chase viral trends, the bones of iGaming, the stuff that actually makes it work, still carry the fingerprints of Microgaming’s earliest builds.

Some people chase the spotlight. Others build the stage. Martin Moshal did the latter.

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