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Topic: CasinoBitco.in - Raising Bankroll for Football! [IPO] [BTC-TC] [BITFUNDER] (Read 3896 times)

legendary
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Casinobitco.in currently has an unpaid loan with CoinLenders that they did not disclose. This loan is not overdue, however it should have been noted.



Yep, a loan of 25 BTC which is no overdue nor has any plans of being overdue.

I didn't disclose this because any funds raised here weren't for that purpose. Further, the loan is tied directly to me personally, and not the CasinoBitco.in venture.

vip
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Casinobitco.in currently has an unpaid loan with CoinLenders that they did not disclose. This loan is not overdue, however it should have been noted.

hero member
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Hayek, we appreciate the feedback. However, I have no doubt we will pretty easily multiply that earnings figure.

We appreciate the interest received so far, and are on the way fulfilling our bankroll goal for now. We are happy to share our balance, income statement & answer any questions to those interested in private investment via PM, and will continue to consider the IPO path, to increase publicity and make it easier for smaller investors to take part.

Thanks to all who have left positive or constructive feedback, we will close this thread for now!



sr. member
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I want to give you my BTC because I think you'll make me some money. There is no way I can justify your valuation.

You don't make enough BTC

You're business is too much of a risk for what I would need to give you

It would take much too long to get my money back.

Other than the IPO boom at launch there are more secure securities that offer comparable or better returns.


I'm still  Huh at how 40 BTC profit = 5,000BTC company.


I can run some awesome prediction charts if I compare the week I was unemployed to my first paycheck. I just don't think this is very realistic, I'm sorry.
hero member
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I have finally had time to review your numbers that you have given, which in honestly is not a lot for someone who actually reviews ratios.

Over a ~2 month period you are up over 60 BTC, which is a nice profit but looking at the charts that you provided No IPO/ IPO you are seeing an additional ~50 BTC profit with the IPO on 10/1/13 which is in cause to raising you max bets.

You have a valuation of 100% of your business at 5,000 BTC which is right now approximately $500,000 in USD, as for that it would be hard for me to justify, as most valuations are based on 1 year revenues or approximately 2-5 year profit margins based on what type of business and the approximate longevity.  Right now all bitcoin businesses should be based on the very low end of the # of year’s profit margins.  

Casinobitco Perceived Val, imo

I would estimate you will make about 200 BTC for 4 months during NFL season and approximately 240 BTC during the other 8 months.  This is based on your booking and Black Jack games, futher growth is needed, imo for more profit.  Therefore making about 440BTC a year.  Now this depends on your ability to gain market versus other books, and also gain more US betting during NFL/CFB, which honestly I am yet to determine if the regular BTC user with deep pockets is really American football fans.  Your major US sports gamblers are not here yet in the BTC community, imo.

So using that I base you guys a perceived valuation at 2 years x 440 = 880BTC
But in all honestly just using the 60 BTC over the last 2 months as basis the 1 year total profit would be 360BTC = a valuation with 2 year basis of =720BTC right this very minute.  

With 30,000,000 shares (also a number I don’t like as the future stock grows the market loves low number of shares as splits generate future profit gains) it would make the shares in my mind at 880BTC = 0.00003BTC per share.

So you are looking at 2 options of investments IPO versus additional Venture Capitalists,

1. Venture Capitalists, if they know what they are doing and not just bitcoin miners who got rich back in day without investing true USD, then their offer will be approximately 400 BTC for ~45% of the company, or worse, with you running operations daily

If you get the amount you are asking with the percentage of the company you are willing to give do it, DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT TAKE $200!

2. IPO - If you go this route and at the share price you have listed, which I would suggest if you dont get a VC dumbass, you need to dump all 10%, not in 2 waves but initially , as second wave won’t ever get to that share price imo in next 2-5 years, after first release.  Because imo an IPO is an opportunity on BTCT.co as a pump and dump.  

Meaning you are going to get more invested initially for less % of company. This will also create market buzz for your business like Labcoin did last week.

Possible issue with this is people can lose out money on this venture with very little possible gains unlike VC where there are 1-3 people who gain a lot on large amounts.  If enough people lose out are these people who lost people who use your service.



Well thought out post & some helpful feedback, thanks! I have to address couple points.

We fully expect to double your estimates year 1. Surprisingly, casino is actually a much larger part of our business than sports – we just released "provably fair", with more on the way soon. So far, most of our high-roller action is 'non-US', so NFL is really just a growth opportunity.

Also, I believe 2-5x is commonly “promised” for some franchise or brick & mortar start-up type investments, but I can’t find examples trading at the low end of that range on any bitcoin marketplaces (see my post in page 1), and 6-8x is a common range in the VC world. I agree, either has risks, but we can agree to disagree otherwise, and I appreciate posting the math to back your #’s.

Finally, we have no intention to "pump and dump", as that would be bad press (Facebook, anyone?). However, if a smart trader thinks that, he/she would simply sit on the sidelines and wait for cheap shares, just like anyone who bought Facebook at $18  Smiley

legendary
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hero member
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Just another thought - bitcoin gaming is growing approximately 10% per month in popularity right now - while still having less than .1% of the overall sports betting/casino market - it's a revolutionary technology with huge potential, and why I originally got into bitcoin... Whether or not we agree on the other items, we agree on choosing to use bitcoin books over the "off-shores"  Smiley

(and honestly think it's likely a better investment than fighting for an ever-shrinking piece of the bitcoin mining pie)
hero member
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To me a 5000 BTC evaluation for a company that hasn't made even 50 BTC yet is insanely over valued. Right now bitbook.biz and NitrogenSports offer many better lines and many other games then you guys. Currently you offer only a couple leagues/sports. Bitbook and Nitrogen both offer at least 10 different leagues for soccer, MMA, AFL, WNBA, you name it. IMO you are valuing your company at what it possibly may be worth, whereas you should be valuing at whats its really worth today. $3000 made in profit in two months does not mean $500,000+ value when the market is saturated with a couple big books and the margins are low. To me the valuation should be 500-750 BTC where you sell 20-40% to get the capital you need for your company. Just my two cents.

(KOS- I edited my post per your edit)

We agree with the feedback on additional options - that's something we're preparing to add, especially with the larger bankroll to support the increased action!

On the share price, I have to constructively disagree - We certainly intend to offer it at a price that will sell out, and have excellent earnings compared to other IPOs and assets in the bitcoin economy (We plan to be able to conservatively pay our investors a year-one dividend at least as high as Ukyo.Loan/ASICMiner, with a large upside if things go well) - and if we simply continue to grow and hit our reasonable targets for NFL, the price should reflect that.

By investing, you're basically putting faith in Tim, I, and the rest of the dev team at CasinoBitco.in to continue to grow as we have, which involves some competing with the other books/casinos. I also don't see Nitrogen or Bitbook offering shares you can compare us to, although they're welcome to - I'll bet it would be at a several times larger valuation than ours (for now)  Wink
hero member
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To me a 5000 BTC evaluation for a company that hasn't made even 50 BTC yet is insanely over valued. Right now bitbook.biz and NitrogenSports offer many better lines and many other games then you guys. Currently you offer only a couple leagues/sports. Bitbook and Nitrogen both offer at least 10 different leagues for soccer, MMA, AFL, WNBA, you name it. IMO you are valuing your company at what it possibly may be worth, whereas you should be valuing at whats its really worth today. $3000 made in profit in two months does not mean $500,000+ value when the market is saturated with a couple big books and the margins are low. To me the valuation should be 500-750 BTC where you sell 20-40% to get the capital you need for your company. Just my two cents.
legendary
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Folks - we are receiving interest on funding our bankroll requirements privately by swapping overall ownership of the venture. Note, we already have such partners so the legal work to do this is already completed and we can execute rather quickly.

While we haven't decided which route we will take (IPO vs Private Funding), if you are interested in funding privately please PM myself or casinobitcoin and we can share details with you.

Thanks,
Tim
sr. member
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Science!
@BitHub, I'm not sure how what % of company is sold or "floated" affects the valuation? This is simply what % the company wants/needs to sell for capital. Maybe you can clarify  Smiley

How about this?
Offer shares with dividends equal to 70% of increased revenue from the day of share issuance until accumulated dividends have reached 100% ROI, then drop dividends to set a value of 10% of total revenue. Kind of like a perpetual variable rate bond which converts to a revenue share after a specific accumulation.
hero member
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@BitHub, I'm not sure how what % of company is sold or "floated" affects the valuation? This is simply what % the company wants/needs to sell for capital. Maybe you can clarify  Smiley



sr. member
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This looks tempting, nice graphs you got.  On the other hand, that's a good point someone made about legal risk.
hero member
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$500k...

Best of luck sir. But you should maybe bring it down a bit. This isn't like when SD IPO'd. There is so much competition along with legality issues (As we saw with SD) which make these sort of ventures not exactly long term prospects.
sr. member
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you need to give up 70% of this company for this valuation to start making any sense.
sr. member
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Science!
Well done. I'll take a hard look at the offering if/when it comes about.

Cheers!
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I only used the parlay as a colorful default scenario, I certainly didnt mean to imply your operation was amateurish. My point was that in a secured loan, your collateral would be liquidated in the event of a default, which could be caused by many unforeseen events unrelated to your trustworthiness—malicious theft by hackers, seizure of domain/equipment by authorities, etc. In your IPO, you are offering fractional profit-sharing as a reward to those providing the substantive bankroll—i.e. you are overvaluing you current assets. I think a variable-yield bond offering is a more appropriate fundraising tool in this instance than an overvalued security.

Thanks for the clarification Smiley Obviously we'd lower limits on such a long-shot parlay to a safe amount. Also, great point - we are certainly weighing debt/bonds as an option. However, I've not really seen many options for this in the bitcoin world, nor the demand by bond investors. It would be a nice option, though.

Both are common avenues for smaller businesses. I'm sure many organizations going for the angel/VC/IPO option, trading precious equity for funds, would rather issue debt, but cannot get enough credit or want to make the repayments at that time.

I have to disagree on offering profit-sharing being an overvaluation by default. Sure, its a higher valuation than assets alone, but intellectual property and effort put into the business carry much of the value. Not to mention, we already have a significant bankroll (assets) and positive cash flow. The value of a security, and any security taking on rounds of investment, is hopefully more than sum of it's assets - debts Smiley
sr. member
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Science!
It seems like you guys really just want a 500BTC line of credit but lack collateral, so the IPO option allows you to raise capital without collateral—and there's the added bonus of walking away from your obligation if it all goes pear-shaped on a 10BTC 7-team parlay. I suggest you offer a larger stake (> 30%) for the amount of risk you're asking investors to take on.

Your feedback is taken, but it's very unfair to speculate that we would walk away from any of our commitments. I understand there is a trust issue because you don't know us, and there have been plenty of scammers in the past, but we've been a fantastic addition to the Bitcoin community and are offering our players a great gaming experience. That said, you max bets (and max "to win" amount on bets / parlays) will fluctuate based on our bankroll. Never will we exposure ourselves beyond a 1% risk of ruin. So the scenario where a customer hits a 7-team parlay will never break the house.



I only used the parlay as a colorful default scenario, I certainly didnt mean to imply your operation was amateurish. My point was that in a secured loan, your collateral would be liquidated in the event of a default, which could be caused by many unforeseen events unrelated to your trustworthiness—malicious theft by hackers, seizure of domain/equipment by authorities, etc. In your IPO, you are offering fractional profit-sharing as a reward to those providing the substantive bankroll—i.e. you are overvaluing your current assets. I think a variable-yield bond offering is a more appropriate fundraising tool in this instance than an overvalued security.
legendary
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It seems like you guys really just want a 500BTC line of credit but lack collateral, so the IPO option allows you to raise capital without collateral—and there's the added bonus of walking away from your obligation if it all goes pear-shaped on a 10BTC 7-team parlay. I suggest you offer a larger stake (> 30%) for the amount of risk you're asking investors to take on.

Your feedback is taken, but it's very unfair to speculate that we would walk away from any of our commitments. I understand there is a trust issue because you don't know us, and there have been plenty of scammers in the past, but we've been a fantastic addition to the Bitcoin community and are offering our players a great gaming experience. That said, you max bets (and max "to win" amount on bets / parlays) will fluctuate based on our bankroll. Never will we exposure ourselves beyond a 1% risk of ruin. So the scenario where a customer hits a 7-team parlay will never break the house.

sr. member
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Science!
It seems like you guys really just want a 500BTC line of credit but lack collateral, so the IPO option allows you to raise capital without collateral—and there's the added bonus of walking away from your obligation if it all goes pear-shaped on a 10BTC 7-team parlay. I suggest you offer a larger stake (> 30%) for the amount of risk you're asking investors to take on.
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