I know Dzeros from bitdice.me... not personally.. he NEVER had any ownership of the site.
I had talked to him about doing some marketing, but nothing was ever finalized.
I have another person from bitdice.me the moderates the chat and gives away chips.
These are some of the people I have met playing dice. Nobody has access to anything but my self and the owner.
The mod can not even look at emails.. I fill his account with chips to give away.
A license from Kahnawake starts at 50K and you have to host with them. We've been looking into other options because of the hosting.
Poker Software licences start at 20K and go very high from there depending on the deal.
Then add in all the man hours..
Do not pay one player quickly without a damn good reason and your finished.
The most I ever saw at one time on SWC was about 300, but was a while ago so not really sure.
I am willing to bet the average player hold was less then 0.5btc
Pretty sad return for a "scam"
Do you have any idea the kind of money a decent poker site can make on rake?
Once we get going, I do think we can do it better then SWC or his new site.
I tend to go off the deepend when attacked.
The posts I had deleted, I am still not sure it was my language, or off topic , but it was in this thread.
In reply to the guy complaining the giveaways were to low. Sure we want people to have fun, win some, but we are not giving away the barn.
I am sorry I snapped and in hindsight I should have use PM to resolve this.
A quick google search regarding Canadian law and online gambling comes with results that both say that online gambling is a gray area of the law and that running an online gambling site is outright illegal. I would say that at best the site will cause legal headaches for you.
I believe the owner of SWC was recently arrested inside the US for running an online casino (or some similar charge related to that) recently. The US also tends to be pretty aggressive at pursuing crimes against successful people, as doing so allows prosecutors to make names for themselves. I was able to recently access the site while using a US gateway from my VPN (from a US based IP address).
If you have to pay $50k for a license to run the software then your initial investment would be the equivalent of ~217.4 BTC. The site profit of bit dice is ~600 BTC (which I assume does not account for any expenses), however I would think that dice sites wold get a lot more volume of betting (and as a result more profits) then a poker site, however I may be wrong on this.
I admit that dzeros is very good at marketing (however his ethics are questionable at best) as this is likely how he was able to scam for such large amounts of money. Anything with his name anywhere near it is almost certain to be a scam in my eyes. I would guesstimate that he has probably scammed for at least 50 BTC from sites advertised on bitcointalk and probably more from sites run on other forums. Research into his identity has lead me to find allegations of scamming dating back to 2012 on various forums, however I suspect that he had started scamming prior to that by ~2 years. He was able to manipulate multiple people into taking actions that resulted in their reputation (on here) to be ruined, including getting people to both attempt to extort people and to participate in his scams (as in help him scam).
I have (credible) information to believe that dzeros is an alt of the people I mentioned in my negative trust. The people I named are better known alts of his. I have removed my negative trust, however please see my above statement.
The quoted statement includes the phrase would be after would scam, which is saying that if the site were to scam you would do it in a certain way, it did not say that you actually engage in this practice.