The way I see public and private bankroll is pretty much whether a company decides to go public and get listed on the stock market. Both are pros and cons. When a company does an IPO they do it pretty much to raise capital so they can expand the company and open new ventures to make more profits. In return they need to give some control of the company over to the shareholders and sometimes they might need to pay dividends.
With casino crypto public bankrolls its pretty much similar. If a site is small it enables them to increase max bet and be able to use more of their funds for advertising and maybe move some funds to another venture. However by doing this they are pretty much making less BTC because they need to share it with the investors. But keep in mind that if a site goes public, they increase their advertising budget, get more gamblers, get more revenue and might make more BTC than before even with the bankroll. So its up to the admin to decide if it right for them or not.
Well said! There are benefits of both public and private ways. Going public (shares or bankroll) also means more transparency too, which is generally a good thing. Going private mean you have more freedom in managing the funds you have.
Anyway, the idea that has been sitting in my head for a while is:
1. All coins could be open for investments,
2. Commission would be based on wagered amounts (expected profit), not pure profit. This means if the commission was 40%, the commission would be 0.4 BTC from every 100 BTC wagered (with 1% house edge). There are a few benefits for the investors:
- no "commission runs" - the commission would be taken in real time, which means your investments value is what you get when you close it
- if players lose more than "expected 1% of wagered", it's investors' gain
- yes, this would put a bit more risk on the investors in case there are big wins on the site with lots of wagering.
On the other hand, it protects the site (us) in a situation when players win a large portion of bankroll, and the site still needs to pay referral/rakeback bonuses. It would also help us get a steady income-to-expenses ratio.
3. There would be
no "leverage" setting - almost all investments were at x10 leverage anyway, so I don't think there is much point in having that option IMHO. This would simplify things A LOT for us. We'd just set max bet profit to %1 of the bankroll.
4. For the time of competitions we'd pause all 3rd party investments for a given coin. That's because we'd still like to add 50% of the site profit to these competitions, and we couldn't do it with other investments active. Competitions happen every 2-4 weeks, we have 4 coins, so a given investment would be paused every 8-16 weeks for one week.
What do you say?
Cheers,
Ethan