I am just wondering where Dooglus, Quickseller, NLNico, shorena, Dean and Stunna are right now? If there is just a small thing on our site they would already jumped on it.
I'm just catching up on this thread.
This is a tricky issue. It's pretty standard practice not to refund bets I think. Other than the 11 BTC bet nobody seems to be disputing the fact that they gambled and lost. The question is whether the site should pay for the losses from their own pocket because the bets wouldn't have been made if the withdrawal had gone through.
I think in the event that it was simply a hot wallet issue, it's pretty clear. Hot wallets run out occasionally. Players can't expect sites to refund bets made just because the hot wallet was empty. But this case is murkier. There was a bug on the site with made the players think that their coins were already lost, customer support weren't responding to emails or on this thread and so the players apparently felt like their only chance of getting their coins back was to carry on playing. I think if it was me I would have given customer support more time to respond to me, rather than continuing to play, and I don't know what the right thing would be for the site to do. I hope the site compensates the players for this bug and generally steps up its game.
Edit: I notice SatoshiDice is accepting "investment" from players now. Is the cold wallet address and list of investment amounts published? And if not, why not?