Topic: bustabit – The original crash game - page 34. (Read 61171 times)

This is true, of course, thanks for the clarification. Like any review (no matter if hardware, shoes or even casinos) you should not trust them blindly but get further opinions if necessary before you deposit larger amounts of precious BTC.But why I mentioned BTCGosu is that efialtis also reports about scam accusations against casinos and in such cases even takes their reviews offline. This was the case not long ago with Sportsbet: Sportsbet.io & Bitcasino.io temporarily deactivated on BTCGOSU

I have already pointed out to efialtis that both bustadice and bustabit are definitely worth a review, if only because they are among the longest existing casinos and serve thousands of customers per year. I will ask about the reviews when the opportunity arises

That makes sense, although I think I can make a decent counter-argument. By giving people dilution fee credits, you are giving them something worth something but it'd be very tricksy to sell. As they would basically have to sell their entire busta* account to someone who wanted to invest. At first I thought it'd be neat if you allowed people to safely trade their dilution fee credit for bitcoin with prospective investors, but that seems overly complicated when you yourself could just give everyone cold-hard BTC instead and recollect it on the next X of new investments. So in effect, it would be like everyone immediately and safely selling their dilution fee credits, and you're just fronting the money until enough new investments come in.

Then again, it is a bit of a weak argument as you logically extended it basically means the dilution fee shouldn't exist (as someone's should be able to sell their investment, rather than divest). But thought I'd throw that out there anyway 


My experience with virtually all casino-review sites (there are however a couple small exceptions) has been the only thing they care about and optimize for is their own bottom line, which generally means pushing what gives them the most affiliate returns. The casinos that give the most affiliate returns often are the worst (i.e. that's why they need to spend so much on affiliate, and they do dodgy stuff to have high margins). Ever wonder why sites like askgamblers will knowingly list and excuse outright scammy behavior like bitstarz as #1 (even defend WTF-bad practices, like seizing account balances for accidentally exceeding a software unenforced and unwarned betting limit )?

It's a pretty rotten industry really. I've been waiting for someone honest to disrupt it, but doesn't seem to be happening any time soon.




I have never been doing that for bustabit. I do that for bustadice, as I run the audit server -- so it makes sense in that context -- as running the audit server allows me to verify wins/loses due to bustadice's multi-party provably fair scheme (there's basically 2 server seeds, and the audit server has one which Daniel himself doesn't know).

Looking at these statistics shows just how big a success Bustabit (and after looking at Bustadice stats) these websites have become.

With phenomenal amounts of money involved it is clear not all investors and game players for that matter will be happy with all the decisions made but it would be wise to try to have some form of input from them at least to gain some form of consensus.

Is RHavar no longer one of the 3 multi-sigs for the cold wallet? devans said he has no role beyond being an investor and former owner.

And I disagree with changing commission structure based on USD. Keep it in Bitcoin.

thanks, for the clarification, I'm aware that devans/Daniel is the owner. I have a decent % of my networth on his website, obviously I trust him.

I honestly don't expect to get real btc delution fee credit, I still think it is a bad idea to trying to reduce the bustabit bankroll.

There are so many clones out there that have better graphics, boni, more coins, VIP systems, affiliate commission etc. Still people play on bustabit and I think that is due to those two reasons.
A) Trust
B) Gigantic betting limits for whales

Reducing the bankroll will make the whales unhappy and we just had a whale who went for max win possible per hand. Obviously there are also lots of customers who enjoy watching the whale action.

I have a feeling this change will reduce the bankroll, but also the overall betting volume and overall profit for devans and investors.

Of course it makes sense. It's just something a player looking for unbiased reviews of casinos needs to be aware of, so it's worth pointing out. After all, the conflict of interest extends beyond not including sites without an affiliate program, which is economically rational. It is also rational for such a site to favorably highlight casinos with higher commission rates over ones with lower commission rates, for example.

 I mean that kind of makes sense though isn't it? I am not here to defend efialtis or his website because that is not my job, however when you do not have any affiliate structure at all, a casino review website not caring about your website does kind of makes sense. The difference is, if you take a lot of money from a shady casino and publish them as 5 stars and best casino ever knowing that they are not really a good legit place just because you took money from them, that would be something very bad to do and I would condemn anyone that does that. However listing a bad place and not listing a good place are different things and shouldn't be really put to same light. I would say one is very bad while the other one is quite expected frankly.

While they can be useful in finding out about other casinos, something to keep in mind about these "casino review" sites is that their business model makes it virtually impossible for them to have an impartial opinion. One of the main ways they earn a profit is by sending players to casinos that pay them a commission for whatever that player ends up betting or losing. bustabit doesn't have an affiliate program, so review sites cannot earn money by recommending bustabit. For example, BTCGOSU doesn't mention bustabit at all despite it being the oldest and largest crash game.

Of course, why not bustabit has been in business for a very long time, if there was any problem (no payout, nobody wins, ...) it would have been discovered immediately and they would have had to close down. But this is not the case, the site still exists and has dozens of (happy) customers every day.

You can also inform yourself about casinos at @efialtis site btcgosu.com. He reviews them and writes field reports about them. You would also know immediately about scam accusations or problems.

Always possible, there are lot of people who won from this site , but lot of people are losing too. Don't afraid with fairness of this site, since it has running for long time even though the owner has changed.
Exeperience? I have turned 10k bits deposit to 20k bits and withdrew, but few days later i lose it all,  .
On here, our deposit money called by bit, and 1 bit = 100 satoshis, so 1,000,000 bits = 1 bitcoin

Is it possible to win on that website? Any of you guys has some experience?

I know Ryan already mentioned it, but I feel that I should also point out that he's not involved in bustabit anymore beyond being a bankroll investor like yourself.

Anyway: When I launched bustadice and acquired bustabit shortly after that I was relatively unknown in the crypto gambling space and I assumed that there would be at least some concern that I might try to run with the money. Allowing investors to invest offsite was intended to appease these concerns, at least to an extent. Nowadays, however, I believe the more significant counterparty risk for investors is me stealing from the bankroll by posing as a lucky player and in this regard offsite investing doesn't help.



You'll receive an amount of dilution fee credits that's equivalent to what your offsite investment was. E.g. if you had a 1 BTC offsite investment you will be able to reinvest 1 BTC onsite without having to pay the dilution fee again. For what it's worth investors have always been able to move their offsite investments onsite and vice versa for free.



I don't see any justification for that. After all, I'm not forcing anybody to divest. And other investors (i.e. non-offsite) don't have the opportunity to see their dilution fees returned to them when they decide to divest again. In addition to that, early investors with an offsite investment have likely benefited from the dilution fee more than average, i.e. they received more in dilution fees from other investors than they paid themselves.

I'd say not to complicate things further. If Bitcoin increases in price substantially it would be understandable if you wanted to make adjustments.

I've rewritten https://www.bustabit.com/help/investing to explain the current fee structure in detail and also explicitly state that the dynamic commission rate cannot exceed 100%.



I agree that correcting the commission rate for Bitcoin's price would make more sense given that our wager volume tends to be more consistent in purchasing power (e.g. USD, EUR, KRW etc.) than in Bitcoin:
However, calculating the commission rate like you suggest is also more difficult for investors to comprehend–especially retroactively–so I'm not sure that's the way to go. The bankroll should find an equilibrium regardless of Bitcoin's price. The only concern is that the equilibrium point becomes too low to support the bets our players want to make or too high for my risk tolerance. While I don't like making changes like this often, the formula is not set in stone and can be changed if necessary.

It's worth considering nevertheless. Maybe other investors can chime in. I'm curious what they think about adjusting the commission rate for Bitcoin's price.

Zero chance he's paying out Bitcoin instead of dilution fee credits (lol).

Those credits are actually useless unless you deposit the same amount back into the onsite Bankroll...
Id agree with RHavar to actually pay out the BTC...
But oh well!

And how many dilution fee credits do you get? Is that equal to the offsite portion?

It'll get removed, but you'll get dilution fee credits so that you could add all of your offsite portion onsite if you want (and have the BTC to deposit).

Can somebody explain to me what is going to happen to my offsite portion?

I would say giving people bitcoin could definitely a way to "apologize" for the disturbance but it wouldn't be financially smart decision to make by devans neither, it looks like it would cost a lot of money considering how many people there are and how much will be divested, he may be able to afford that but there is really no reason to do it when you can avoid spending so much money.

I also understand where he is coming from as well, there is way too much money for how much is wagered and with higher and higher fee for devans would mean dropping the invested amount because people wouldn't want to pay that much high fee and leave. It is like a free market version of "I want you to leave but I can't kick you out so I am going to charge you more hoping you will leave yourself" .