Dean as far as i know him is pretty good guy and yes its true that we/me have very good relationship with him and well most of the competition. Atleast we try to have healthy competition.
As for his remark about being paid by pd / stake , i dont think he meant paid for basing betking or something i think he knows we would never do such thing.
He probably meant for our sometimes bad decisions to who we pay to promote our sites. We did indeed had some "brand managers" that we paid to promote our site and they did it in very bad way. Like spam and other marketing strategies that we dont use like attacking our competition
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That being said i hate ICOs and what they did there.
I do not hate ICOs on the contrary I believe if they make perfect business sense then they are perfectly appropriate but only if certain conditions are met (ie investors have a high chance to make a decent profit on their investment, lots of transparency for accounts and expenditure, adhering to the whitepaper proposals and milestones as best etc). I do dislike the Betking ICO and what Dean Nolan did with a view to simply making himself rich using investors money. He never thought I would expose his PM comments so he quickly came and posted here to show it was a non-comment, a tongue-in-cheek comment but he did not like how someone could make positive posts about Stake and Primedice while making negative posts about Betking so he assumed the one getting positive posts must be paying for them.
I can see how generous, kind and genuine all those representing Stake and Primedice are and how you would never stoop so low to make nasty comments about Dean Nolan or Betking or any other site. What you see as healthy competition and good relationships with competitors is seen as jealousy by people such as Dean Nolan and their ilk.
Both websites Stake and Primedice have excellent reputations. Not a bad review in sight about them. When users raise concerns or report issues a friendly post comes along saying they are looking in to it. Stake and Primedice did not have an ICO as it was not imperative. Betking and Dean Nolan should have taken a page out of your book but in his haste to get rich quick after failing to sell his Betking site he decided to go out all guns blazing with bounty participants to pull in investors and then made the disgusting comment "investors are to blame, they should have applied due-diligence". I doubt Stake and Primedice would ever write something like that to their investors.
I also doubt very much that you would try to fool users to play a 50 BTC Jackpot dice game (such as what Dean Nolan and Betking did to "celebrate" the "relaunch" of the same identical Betking website post ICO) but that Jackpot was never really there in the first place with odds of 10 billion to one. Provably fair? Probably scam more like.
