I have to admin that what you are saying is highly inspiring to me. The decision about suspending is final, so that did not change my mind, but damn, [/b]YOU GUYS ARE GREAT[/b].
I am getting tons of emails from "potential buyers" about YOLOdice, and let's make it clear: our intention is NOT to sell it. Especially not for 1 BTC, as offered by one of such "buyers".
As you noted earlier, there is a matter of reputation - the new owner would basically have to start building his reputation from ground, and there is a pretty long way from that to accepting investments.
On the other hand I strongly believe that what makes YOLOdice reputable is 1. people that run it, 2. people that support it, 3. people that use it. There is a huge value in the package (1+2+3), not necessarily in the separate pieces.
Suspending YOLOdice is not THE end. It's the end of something, but come on - there are less and less people who want to deposit coins if transaction fees are over $10, and coins themselves are increasing in value even if you don't gamble them.
I respect Dooglus for closing JD and switching from BTC to CLAM - it was a sort of solution to keep the game rolling, but detach the value of the tokens from BTC.
YOLOdice might actually come back in the future (that's why I am reluctant to sell it), but in a different form.
Cheers,
Ethan
PS. If you really want to buy YOLOdice, please spare me some nerves and don't offer 1 BTC for it :-)
Just received this news via the update a couple of days ago.
And it is a tragic turn of events to decide to suspend play on your site as it had been around for a long time.
One of the first dice sites from what I remember as I was never a primedice fan to begin with and your site was lightning fast at everything including the bets which was the important part of any gambling site.
But as others have mentioned already, it was a decision you had to make and as with everything else in life:
Nothing truly last forever.
And it is probably the best for you and the site that you take a break for now.
Hope you do recover and come back one day, so really knows.
But all the best to you and your loyal players from Yolodice.