20 billion bets, I remember celebrating 1 million!
next is 30 billion bets!
So we have to wait a while before next contest
I am pretty sure they will be a contest for the 25th billionth bet.
Its very difficult to get a timeline on these "billonth" rolls and such. The bitcoin ecosystem is exponetially increasing that the rolls/per/day is constantley changing.
Physical casinos might not realize this but they are starting to lose "ALOT" of profit probably due to online bitcoin gambling.
OK I can wait 5 billion more bets.
Guess you are right about online casino vs physical casino's. Have you found any numbers about this online?
I don't have any statistics but I am pretty sure the "technical" gamblers who rely on low casino edge, will just gamble with dice instead of going to the casino and playing Roulette.
However most gamblers are recreational gamblers who basically go to Las Vegas and gamble for entertainment and plan on actually losing. Those people Bitcoin won't affect.
Technically Blackjack can offer a lot lower house edge. I believe the reason people choose dicing is simply because of the speed of bets and the ability to change odds at ease.
If you think about it, dicing is the essence of all gambling. It takes out the cards, the roulette board etc. and breaks it down into dead numbers only.
Blackjack can offer lower house edge on certain deck amounts and rules,yes
the house advantage could be as low as 0.43% if this site is correct:
https://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/calculator/dice became so popular because of Satoshidice,historically it was the first and long time the only solid gambling site for bitcoins
I remember huge wins of 400+ bitcoins,sad to see it go
so,dice game is simple,easy to code and the most common game for bitcoins-both gamblers and the site owners love it
attempts to create some sort of a trademark game as popular as dice (bustabit,plinko,all sort of new games with not so simple rules) usually fail or lack audience
I can give an example: bitvest.io had all kind of games:plinko,bitspin,slots,roulette,but once they introduced dice
this game topped all the others combined in terms of total wagered in under 2 months
Stake offers many different games including a slightly higher house edge dice,so they covered all the bases