Couldn't agree more! And people don't know this, but TF was also in the middle of launching a new venture when he went rogue -- I still don't understand why he did...
And I also have funds I push to PeerBet and a couple others,
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I guess an inherent problem with a site that hold too much users money is the financial incentives start aligning going rogue.
For instance if you compare my two sites: bustabit and moneypot. Bustabit is completely self bankrolled and typically holds ~20-30 BTC in players funds, but makes 30-50 btc a month. Stealing players money, or doing anything to jeopardize it's legitimacy would be totally retarded.
Now take moneypot, at the moment it's probably only makes me a bitcoin a month or so, but holds >125 BTC of other peoples money. If I was less scrupulous, it offers the ability to undetectably steal from investors and if I doubted it's long term prospects going dark might be attractive.
Fortunately however, I'm not a psychopath and optimize for a lot more than financial incentives. But that's something that I can't ever prove and even if assuming it's true there's other ways you can lose your money with me (gross incompetence, me getting hit by a bus, someone putting a gun to my head). All cases I want to improve protection for players though =)
Anyway, I don't mean to alarm anyone or anything. I just cringe a little every time someone downplays the risks.
And of course, I think moneypot has ridiculous potential and I'm extremely invested in it's success =)