The investors in question are not persons who gambled with you while the thread was open, but rather, the investors for whom you shut the thread down. After which you told me that if I wanted back in on the game, minimum investment was 1.2 BTC. Oops, I forgot to mention that before.
Could you brought a substantial return on 1.2 BTC for me? Too bad, I’ll never know...
(I have a few other potential replies upthread; but I wanted to address that quickly.)
The minimum investment
I want to understand this: Other than the simple business consideration of keeping your customer base small and thus manageable, what difference would it make to take, say, 1.2 BTC from whale_of_a_bettor plus 0.02 BTC from me, and gamble 1.22 BTC with proceeds split appropriately?
Actually, no: My point is to inquire as to whether doubling 0.01 BTC for me was an investment on conning a rich mark.
In her very first PM to me, Alia said that I must be rich. I never contradicted this; I let her make her own assumptions. Only after she required 1.2 BTC from me upfront for a deal I had seen to be profitable, I regrettably had to inform her that I do not have that kind of money to invest. I really don’t.
My PM inbox got a bit quieter after that...
1) The less customers I get, the more manageable my workflow is
2) If a deposit is larger, I tend to be much more conservative and aim for a lower ROI, which leads to a much lower loss rate
3) I can make expotentially more money with much less work
Hopefully that makes it clear. If you really, really want to do it, then with theymos's permission, I'll gamble with small amounts for maybe a window of 48 hours, and livestream the thing while blurring out the script. I'm not a generous person; I didn't just randomly give you 0.01 BTC for free. I gave it to you because I made money off your money, and was rewarding you for it.