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How much does it cost to build and maintain a website like primedice (for example)?

Hosting,programming,design and advertising costs?

I have an idea about a brand new bitcoin gambling game which will be completely different than the dice sites,

but i don`t know from where to start.

I don`t know if this is the right place to ask,but can anyone answer?

If u dont know where to start, please refrain from starting one. Securing bitcoin is not easy. U'll be dealing with other's money.

Creating a gambling site is pretty cheap the problem is you need capital to maintaince a bank roll. It can cost a few BTC to get the design and program up and running but nobody will feel safe depositing money because what if one whale, cleans out everyones wallets?

It's going to cost shitload of money, advertising probably is the one that will cost you the least and programming and security will cost you the most. Without forgetting the fact that you should have at least 100 BTC (your wallet to pay users on your website) , that assuming that you want to start a very small website. It's probably better to contact Stunna or other gambling websites owner. I wouldn't recommend starting one personally as there is too much competition and It's not as easy as It sounds.

100 btc for starting gambling site? wow its a big amount for me, but perhaps it was appropriate for the profit that we can get from gambling site. hm i think it will give ROI for short term, i wish i can have that 100 btc, i will become the rich person in my city  ;D

According To me Making a Btc Gambling Website is Easy But For Making Payouts And For Promoting Your Gambling Website You Need A Huge Bankroll And Also According to me It would Cost You a Minimum Of 50-100 Btc....

Actually 100btc is too low for me to start a gambling site. Site, advertising, bankroll, and everything you need so 100btc is not enough. Also it cant cover your losses if high roller came into your site even atleast 3 of them. For sure you will got bankrupt.

For Developing it will cost you only few bitcoins
Hosting depends on players and traffic.
Advertising 5 BTC
Promos and offers 25 BTC

But for bankroll, estimation can't be given approx too, in long run house edge will increase your bankroll. Yep you are right But if some players got lucky bankroll will be big problem, but you can try for investors for bankroll, If luckily got more investor bankroll problem is solved.

But how do you think you can successfully run a gambling site where many site disappear within few months. Only a few stand for long period

If you are just thinking of opening a dice only casino like primedice than you only need dice script which you can also find for free shared under open source in github however some security and bug changes may required. Let me break down my cost estimation;
- script + bug fix + add security features = $500
- Hosting, domain + ssl certificate + anti DDOS = $500 for one year
- paying staff members, server adminstators, paying mods, payout for faucet = $1000 per month
- Starting bankroll (later you can ask investors for site bankroll) = $5000 (may be even more)

So total i think around $7000 to $10,000 may be needed for all of the above and extra few in running different advertising campaigns, i can't estimate the probable profits.

I honestly do not know how much it will cost but I think that it will cost you some nice amount of money for sure, its not something you can just do.
Another fact is that you have to invest a lot of in marketing.

I think better to have even 3 btc for small business before you can start a big casino site so that you can experience and monitor how you spend and how you can make a good profit..  because you will lose in the future.. if you have no experience in the first time..

100 bitcoin is really such a big amount, but i think you can also start a little lower category of casino, it will depend on the material use in in casino their cast and so many other expenses.

The thing is that you need to be able to let people cash out if they have a big win in the early days of the casino.

If you don't have a lot of capital behind your website, you can always lower the max bet and max multiplier to make sure you never have to pay out more than you have. This may turn away some people who like to bet big though.

I don't think you really need 100bitcoin to start. 50 BTC will probably do. Set 30 - 35 BTC as your bankroll and the remaining
for the program, website, security, advertisements and promotions.

Finding a good developer/coder that you can trust would be the main point(after capital).

As for whales wiping out your bankroll, you can always set a max bet amount like .01, .05, or .5 . It's okay to start small after all.
This way, you won't have to worry about your bankroll getting wiped out by whales. You can always raise it afterwards once the site has stabilized.

Did you have a capital to start build a gambling site?? if yes you can ask for someone to help you about it or why didn't you think to invest your money on gambling site. that's way more easy to earn money.

I don't have an idea either, but maybe you need to cover up ranging 20 - 100 bitcoins depending on how much is going to be on your bankroll.

And just exclude the fee for the domain fees and other fees to start up for building your website. You must focus to your capital and I think the amount declared is enough.

But I think there are some gambling sites that just have small amount of capital they are just rolling their capital and getting some attraction to investors for it.

Creating gambling website is not that easy you need to have full knowledge on how to run this kind of website and maintaining the balance is much important for this all in all approximately you will need atleast 10btc or more to start building a gambling website which is much more better and much reliable.

I think about 12 BTC for making bitcoin gambling website, 3 bitcoin for promotion the website, 3 bitcoin for capital include website and scrypt maintenance. And The other coins for reserve, on your website of gambling.

I do not know any exact numbers but I think it will cost you a couple thousand or even more because you need scripters/marketing/admins it will be a whole job to set something like this up.
It will not be easy at all if you are asking me.

You need much money to create a bitcoin gambling site. Maybe around 100 bitcoins, because you also need to have big amount of money on your hot/coldwallet, some money for marketing,programmer and many else.

I think that is a good amount already, what I can say is that if you want to start a good gambling site you need to have different budget for the promotion as well, the bigger you capital the better as people will trust your site if you were able to accept high rollers.

there is big difference between the cost for maintaining a big site like PrimeDice and support a large number of users, because for example the traffic alone requires a good hosting that will cost a lot more than a simple small dice site with 2 visitors per day.
also the security cost, the DDoS attacks, the hacks and many more need a lot more time and money.


it depends on what your final goal is. if you want to make something medium then start small from free scripts then work on it little by little and grow it yourself.
but if you goal is a huge site then you need a team of developers if you are not good at it and that will cost a lot.

To make gambling sites will cost around $ 500 to build the site. Not including paid services board gambling sites, due to build gambling sites I think need more than two people. It costs to make gambling sites but if your gambling site has many users you would gain a lot.

I think build a gambling site which made from scratch would cost you thousands of dollars, it's not easy easy to get positive response from the players with copy paste script and cheap hosting, because security is the very important factor for any gambling to be the successful and make profit for the owner.

You'll surely need to have a big amount almost 20-30btc to start and have atleast a back up of 10btc if one player wons high amount.
But that depends on your game or you may set the highest winning amount for them to maximize your capital at first months of launch .You also need a 24/7 support to handle question a group who will protect the possible hackers that will enter and steal money from.your gambling house and the advertisers you need.

In as much as various suggestions have been given, in my own opinion, I know its not cheap if your are ready to go longterm and also compete favorably with other sites offering the same services even with their longetivity in the business. I think what you should do is to hire someone to do you a feasibility plan of action and the cost involved then you can now decide on how to reduce it either by going crowdfunding or building teams and be ready to forfeit some profit but I must say, its really expensive...

I think if someone is interested to run a gambling site than it must need a unique script and a site with attractive graphics and enough funds to cover the winning amount there, I think around 100 BTC would be enough to run a gambling site with good way.

It's true because if you have money you will just let the money work for you.

Very good topic.

If some of the site owners could share their experience it would benefit the whole community. May not be interested in starting but would like to know how was their journey and how difficulty moments came and still exits along with ROI?

Around $2000 just for the website. It should cost you way more though for the security, maybe around $7000 in total. What you should also remember is that you need a bankroll, maybe $10k to start with. So probably around $20k to begin a good-looking, user-friendly, secure, legit online casino.

If you wish some simple design with few games, you can limit bets and op2n gambling site for couple thousands dollars.
On other side if you wish something more serious, you will need 100 k and plus. Yes I'm serious, even this is not enough maybe. You need to pay attention on so many things, design of the site, hosting, games, huge bankroll for highrollers, security of everything and anything on that site. And on top let's add advertising, more money you invest that is better. For good marketing you will need couple thousands.

I think the bankroll should be at least 10 times of the maximum profit in one round. Aside from that, you also have to hire programmers, advertisers, designers, and a support team. I think that will all depend on the rate of who you are and how good you want your site to be. You can save money and study how to become all of this. In other words, you're the own who's going to create all the things necessary for your gambling site.

Seeing that you're in a signature campaign, I bet that you cannot afford to build your own gambling site unless you ask people for help or you get a huge loan.

It will cost big amounts for i think it needs 10btc or more ,creating a gambling site needs a lot of work ,workers to work on different section or games in every program and at first the very hard time in a gambling site is the amount of capital you have when starting .All the expenses are there from creating to paying on advirtiser and advertisements.

10 bitcoin is just for starting capital if you really want to build a very good gambling site. Because base on my understanding, most of the gambling websites has 20-50 bitcoin capital.

And as the site is keep on running their profits are being invested again for their funds so that more and more gamblers are going to be attracted.

Because they know that the site is being established well.

Indeed and actually no site starts rich they grow up rich as gamblers loose day by day. I think if someone is starting a site then around 25 bitcoins would be enough to start and then you can take investments too, while moneypot has made such things easy too since owners don't need their bankroll now ;)

Actually it depends from site to site and the condition of a owner, creating a site can be done with hardly one bitcoin also, if you run a moneypot powered website. While if you want to create something like primedice ( which OP gave as example ) then I cannot even imagine the efforts and money used to get that sort of status.

And someone can start with one btc bankroll and hence maximum wins limited to some 0.02 or so and actually if you see the profit comes from small gamblers as they don't care much and loose whatever they have.
So, the site owner can make a moto that he will use al the earned funds for the betterment of site only.

Sharing here doesn't mean caring :P , actually due to the competition in the market right now, hardly anyone will share their journey ups and downs because that will simply mean in encouraging a new site to be opened and this would obviously give them loss as the gamblers divide with each new site being created.

Lets say all the things from designing to coding and everything will cost 2 BTC hardly, but the main problem while creating a site is how to bring bankroll because hardly any gambler will play on a casino that has less than a 50 BTC bankroll.

actually the main cost in this project is of only making script program of the gambling site and second cist is in advertising .
both of this will take about 2 btc in the starting so , it is not more costly if you are going to make a gambling casino .

Before Creating Own Bitcoin Gambling Website You Need to Consider the Following things:-
1) Firstly You Need a Huge Bankroll To Hire a Web Designer Who Can Design a Gambling Website For You and Also For Some Marketing Of Your Website...
2) Then You Need a Good Marketing Team Which Will Work For Your Website to Populate Your Website.....

actually it will take about less then 1 btc but i will suggest you to make a better view enable site that will take above of 1btc .
and main cost of your project is only for programming because hosting and domain will be done with few doller ( about $12 ).
well i can help you to find a programmer who is also in this forum and he is my friend ( rick3 )

You need at least 10 bitcoin to develop a gambling site. This money is divided into many purposes such as advertising, banner, promo, signature campaign, the payout for users, etc.. And you will need to have a wide knowledge and experience about gambling as well as the Bitcoin system so that you can easily manage your gambling site.

To creating, hosting, programming and designing 1 BTC is enough but to maintaining the site you need to be dedicated developing a team. And to promoting your site, you need some money. This is just for launching your site. If you want to run your site without any issues, then don't expect any profit from first 3 months, so to run your site this 3 months you need some big investments. If you are ready for this, then you can easily create your site.

Creating a gambling site is so much more than most of us think. First you have to look for a programmer or a web designer to create the gambling site. Then you have to look for beta testers after you alpha tested it. Then you have to hire moderators, and support staff. You also have to buy CloudFlare (or anything similar) to protect your website from DDoS attacks. Then you have to promote your gambling site in this place. Just a simple signature campaign costs a lot. You have to buy signature BB Code, hire a campaign manager, and then pay for the participants.

I think all of these would take you about 20BTC, give or take. Then you would need about 100BTC for the bankroll of your gambling site.

Creating  or  planning to  build a gambling site  is  no  joke  because  its  a big investment and you would really need  big  amounts  of  bitcoin to start from. In my  opinion you would  really need  over 200 btc all in all  , including all the marketing stuffs, website design, and others.

Indeed if we see it's all going to be a very funny joke. But if you look at the hard work built by those who have the desire and passion is remarkable then I don't think it will be a dream or a joke. because of all the success comes from the intention and action is done, without it then indeed will only be a dream and will surely be a joke for those who really like for it

I dont think 20btc is quite enough to create a online casino, unless if you just want to make a simple gambling game. I think you need atleast 100 btc for building a casino, making promotions, giving bonuses, advertising, etc.

I don't have an idea either, but maybe you need to cover up ranging 20 - 100 bitcoins depending on how much is going to be on your bankroll.

And just exclude the fee for the domain fees and other fees to start up for building your website. You must focus to your capital and I think the amount declared is enough.

But I think there are some gambling sites that just have small amount of capital they are just rolling their capital and getting some attraction to investors for it

I do agree with you , everything is  possible and  we could really  make  a gambling site   if we  like to and  as you said   we  need  to act rather than  keeping it as a  plan or dream. It may  take  some  huge amount  but its worth it as  long you are on the  right  path  on building  one.  Hardwork and  money  would  be the recipe though . Members  already mentioned here what would be the  right  things  that are needed  to build a  gambling site and  the  capital .

Gambling site demand high level security and custom script something made from scratch with unique attractive looking graphics, the running of gambling a business would cost around 25BTC but it depend on bet amount what is maximum profit you offer, if anybody have good bankroll than it will be nice to run a gambling site.

Creating a gambling site is pretty easy and if you are not skilled with web development you can hire people and it will cost only couple of thousand dollars but the biggest obstacle is in having a big enough bank roll to pay your customers,if you cannot pay back then it is a matter of seconds people will flag your site as scam and you will end up in a loss and the next problem is security ,as even the biggest gambling sites have fallen for hackers ,so it is not that easy as you think it is.

i think 25 bitcoin is a big too low for starting a gambling site! of course it is obvious that people are not going to make huge bets the first days or even first month of your site's creation but that is not the main concern in the beginning.

the cost of a strong hosting which is fast and also paying some good coder to build the site and then spend money on security. you will be almost out and you can barely get anything for the most important part which is advertisement and promotion.

Yeah I agree with you mate..25btc is not much, you need to have a backup funds that is unlimited because at the first month since the launch of your site you will not earn much because you may have fewer players to visit your site. You also need to have a good connection for those people who has a wider network in gambling so that they can advertise / endorse your site and sometimes you will be needing a money for that. pretty much it's a hard and tough job for you.

The amount you need depends on what kind of gambling site that you need. I believe if you are just creating a gambling site, that would not be enough. You need to understand that the promotional stage requires already a decent amount of money to pay your advertisers and to tell you, gamblers are more attracted to gambling sites with big bankroll.

Block chain based games are being quite popular these days so you may think about creating one blockchain based unique game like dice game where results depend upon the random block hashed value from bitcoin blockchain that will be picked up.

The cost on this can be around 1000$ for script + 200-300$ for nice responsive design, difficult part on this could be finding capable developer who have experience with bitcoin blockchain.

If You Want to Start A Bitcoin Gambling Site Then Firstly You  Need a Good Amount Like 100 Btc For Your Bankroll, Website Domain and Hosting and Advertising  and If You Have At least 100 Btc Then You can Start a Bitcoin Gambling Site Otherwise its Not Possible......

Yes with a capital of as much as that I believe could make a very good gambling sites. Capital 100 BTC above it could make gambling sites that are responsive and good design. In addition we need people to manage our gambling site because gambling sites may not be taken care of with just one person. Bankroll and promotion costs also require capital. So with a capital of 100 BTC over it deeply enough to make gambling sites.

Yes, we need big Bankroll, but you can start if you have 60+ BTC, yes to creating a website and maintenance team cost and to promoting your website within 10 BTC you can manage. But you need money to run your website at least 3 months. So first set your limit bit low and start. When your site began to give you profit like that you can increase your limits that;s it.

Its Not Easy to Just Start a Bitcoin Gambling Site Because It's Not Mean that You have Designed a Bitcoin Gambling Site and Just Host it......
It Needs to Gain Some Popularity and Trust In the Bitcoin World to be Succeed in Gambling Casino Business and Also You Need to Know About the Marketing Aspects to Make Popular Your Website and At Last You Need a Huge Bankroll to Pay the Users of Your Website.....

60 Btc  would already  essential   to  put  in  the   bankroll. You are right  better to set   low limits  since you are  just starting  and if you  observe   that its  already  gaining profits then  thats  the time to make adjustments. 3  months  would be a good observation  period but  before you  can set all this  up, you will surely pass first to those important things  like promoting your site, if it doesnt get  good  amount of players  then for sure  your site would not  last long.

I have that 60 BTC, I would just probably invest that in different gambling sites. It's hard to put in one basket as that's still investing and I think with that 60 BTC is not enough to make a successful gambling sites because you still have to pay for the promotion and other necessary things to pay.

If you are rich and you want to create a Bitcoin gambling site then i think you need 100+ Bitcoin and just cap the max bet in order not to lose all your bankroll. But if you know how to create a gambling site you don't need to have 100+ Bitcoin just to run it , Just be partner with Moneypot and your site is good to go.

cheap DICE script here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1675611.msg16825170#msg16825170
thanks

Moneypot is actually a good platform for you to make your own bitcoin casino and without the worry of not having enough funding. For a casino, the bankroll is a huge factor when choosing where to gamble.

I think around 100 BTC

Don't mix gambling games with casinos, game you can make with knowledge and few friends that have experience with programming and development. Then you can offer your game to various sites, casinos, or anyone who can place your game on their site.
Normally it's going like that, but you can make a game and put it on your site, if game is good you will attract many people. That is a bit different, but basically you can open such site with couple bitcoins, just you will need to limit bets and payouts.

If it costs 100 BTC to build, and maintain a gambling website , especially one like prime dice, it should alarm you on how the owner of the website is prepared to get his investment back as quickly as possible. No wonder its a few people who can really make profit on dice games, the house edge is so big more than what many think.

With this amount of bitcoin you can already create maybe 2-3 games with your gambling site. And you will save a lot of bitcoins if you are already a programmer for the labor of programming the script of your site will be just for free for you are the one to do it. But if not, then that will also cost some of your capital bitcoins.

You are  right if you are  a  programmer   you could  able to save some  bitcoins  hence  you could  do it  on  your  own  but as  we all know  not all people  does have this  kind of skills  and only  have a  few does  have this  kind  of  talents which  is somehow a  good advantage from others  but  if  you dont have any idea  on  how to  build one  it would sure cost  you  some bitcoins same as  you mentioned.

creating the site is not even the biggest expense you have to deal with, although it may seem big and expensive but it really is not because there are scripts to start with and there are so many developers who can do it cheap besides it is a one time fee you are paying.

the biggest costs are advertising, security, and paying the players who can win big as long as your site is provably fair.

It is expensive because you can't work all alone and so you need to pay staff members, then you need to pay for very good developer to build a platform very secure and bulletproof, that is a very expensive part, there's some guys around here (better open a new thread for it) who dominate this area of developing. The low costs will be in hosting and promo, but the to maintain a bankroll it depends a lot of what kinda game you'll offer, because dice and slots don't have so much winnings, but cards has, so you need a very good mathematical base to don't give more than the "house" could win.

You need a big balance when you are planning to create a gambling website ofcourse you need to pay your programmer designer but if you can do this alone then you need is capital starting approximately of 20bitcoin is enough to run a gambling website.

That's what I've been saying that you need to pay the cost for the script and everything for building up the website. But once you have established it already and ready to go. Then you just need to go for the advertising and marketing of it to get the target gamblers you need. And after that when you are able to get some decent gamblers then expect the return from your investment.

20btc is not enough to run a gambling site imho, first you need to pay for the script/code, design, domain, your devs, promotions and many other thing. Even if you say that the 20btc is for the bankroll only then I think your site will not get enough players. Usually max winning on single bet is only a little % of your total bankroll, you wont give max winning on single bet = your total bankroll. The problem is that when you have low max winning amount on single bet then big players wont come on your site, perhaps only dust players will play on your site. This condition is not good for your site definetely.

Yes, need much more to start a gambling site. But it's a good investment, BetKing is selling his site and the curent offer is 1500 btcs. We can imagine a good profit was made by the owner there and many players were happy to be on that site.
Miser persons shouldn't open a casino, on this business you need to create many promotions, giveaways, to try to please your customers, otherwise they won't play in your casino.

You need a starting capital of course for the advertising but if you can code your own gambling website then you are going to just think all about how it will become famous and it will play by people and security website is really hard you need to analyze those what you need in one website.

In my opinion, the price to make a gambling site depends on what kinds of a gambling site. There are a variety kinds of gambling such as hi-lo dice, sport betting, minesweeper, etc. Each of them needs the different ways and bitcoin to create and maintain. And, if you find that you do now have enough money to upgrade your site, you can open an investment program for investors who enjoy cooperating. You may collect many bitcoin from investors

I think with 100 BTC-200 BTC ou can start your casino. Since the first day you must allow investment from users to increase your bankroll. Be prepared for high jackpot earnings, you need to support all the possible losses for you on the first days.
You need to spend some time with marketing too, if possible, run a sig campaign on forum or twitter. Give bonus for first deposits too. And so on...

you can even find some investors who can help you with the initial funds and then start with a much smaller amount and build your site first and then little by little make it bigger and bigger.

which means more money, and more advertising with that profit you make and returning the investors funds with a decent ROI.

If you're calculate using bitcoin rate , surely it cose more expensive rather fiat.
AFAIK , if you want to make good site , you need BTC 50 or if you want to buy dice script site, their price relative lower ( about BTC 1 )

I think  even 20 btc is enough to start a small gambling site or business in bitcoin..  since the price of bitcoin is very high. and i think people who are gamble are thinking the price of bitcoin before they will play and bet..
Yeah like izinagi said there is some casino gambling script already someone selling here in our forum.. but honestly almost all that game are not unique unless in design..
If you really want to start a gambling make sure you have a new idea and unique gambling casino that can be attract more people to gamble.. you know old gamblers are always looking for new.

Having a good idea can be the difference between failure and success but it is not enough, some of the most successful business on the Internet started just with a bunch of teenagers in their garage without any money but with a lot of talent, so you can try to reduce the huge costs of establishing a casino by recruiting talented people but at some point you are still going to need money.

If you don't have skills on programming, its better not to start. One of the problems of a new gambling site are related to security, user accounts and most important bankroll security. If you don't understand the code of your site you need to trust the coders. Any bug or back door could be a big problem.

Mostly this is the right price of starting a dice site so usually 49 BTC will go to the bankroll and 1 BTC for the dice script. And it will still depend on how you will handle to build up your site by using your own skill in programming or by hiring someone.


Even you don't have programming skill you can still start to build up your own site as long as you have bitcoin in your wallet.

Not necessarily required, it does not ensure success either even if you have the knowledge. What matters here is you must have a capital to start and you can hire competent people to run your business. It's like making your money work for you because you have the resources.

I think we must have capital around 2000BTC it will be enough because we need much money for promotion the website outside need much time up to website become popular and many users on there, we could learned from the website of gambling had been run on here, they been running out large capital just for making promotion.

2000 btc is too high i guess but maybe 500 btc is enough to do so and yes sometimes promotions cost will more high rather than build the websites itself because usually some gambling sites will provide free btc to the players or free signup to attract more people playing at those sites so if OP really want to serious build new casinos online he have to prepare everything

With  2000BTC, that would already make a good online casino and you cannot just limit your games, you can have a dice games, roulette, and even sports betting. It's good if you have a lot of games so it's like a one stop shop and people will just stay there for their gambling needs.

To make a good gambling website in an easy accessible manner at least 30-40 bitcoin is needed and then based upon the number of events added to the website additional funds were required. And then for advertising through different sources at least 5-10 bitcoin is needed.

Some people start earning through gambling by just spreading their referral link and some sort of 'strategy' for that gambling site. Creating your bitcoin gambling site will cost you a lot of time and money.

I would guess that you'll need 20btc just for all the hosting, programming, design, and advertising. It would be better if you did hire a professional programmer/designer because people don't want to play on poorly-designed gambling sites. Poorly-designed gambling sites just look like a scam to me and it's not exciting to play there.

I guess your bankroll should be around 50btc. It's a huge amount all and all so you should definitely look for investors.

ofcourse you need to invest a huge amount there. approximately you're gonna spend 30-50 BTC to build a gambling sites ofcourse you need some people so you're gonna create a campaign which you gonna pay per week or per month and it depends on the rank how much the price per post will cost. but investing to create a gambling site is a good start of business.

If you want to start a big bitcoin gambling it needs to invest almost 50 to 100 btc but if you want to start as small business or gambling you can start even 10 btc gradually you can increase your revenue and increase more games so that you can be like the same as other big gambling sites..

I think 300BTC are enough here we go for details:
1. Hosting cost: about 50 bitcoins maybe it is too high cost but you must make sure the website is not down while there are many users who visit it.
2. Programming and design cost: 50 bitcoin you must be looking for people who can do programming and design with one.
3. Promotion cost: 100 bitcoin in my opinion the most much take out the gambling is for promotion.

It is not necessary but it is strongly recommended we are talking about big money there a small error on the code can be taken advantage by a hacker or a player that knows how to code and if you don't know how to code you will be oblivious to any of that.

We are here just make a random speculation , noone of the real gambling site owner speaking up here.
To make an explanation and clarification at least , so yeaaa this is just speculation and maybe an estimation.
But if you take a look here  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=818014.0 ,when moneypot get sold for 100bitcoin in an auction so i guess it would be the reliable estimation so far.

For build and maintain a dice site like primedice you need at least 50 bitcoins. Some for the hot wallet and some for the promotions, some also for creating the dice sites. But if you want opening a gambling site like sportsbook, it will cost more but the future of sports book is more better than on dice site.

There are many things to consider before you take the plunge and start an gambling sites, poker or bingo website. The multi-billion dollar online gaming industry is on trend today on the internet commerce as it is being used and appreciated by people , but to achieve significant profitability it will take a lot of dedication for you about to make somehing for people. Youll need to ensure that you are or the site is not a on scamming or for the benefit of the owner only.  You must overcome several obstacles such as security holes, inadequate payment systems, player distrust, and legal issues. The pay site business model can be the most trend now for business, but it can also be very expensive to launch and risky to operate.

If you really want to pursue it then be it if you think your capable enough.Hoping to play soon on your site. Hope it be a challenging and reliable site too.

These  partitions are too much  in  my own  opinion. 50 btc on  hosting  cost  is overkill  hence you could  able to make a  website with  good security  which really  cost less  compare  to that said amount and also 50  bitcoins is  too much  for   a website design and also 100 bitcoin  for  promotion  is  overkill :) Just want to ask  if   how much would  you  put  in your bankroll? Because  you didnt mention  it.

I'm sure it would cost a lot of BTC because gambling site is a site where your bitcoin as a capital is the one who will be the price for those gamblers who wins every time they play. Making a gambling site is not that easy because your BTC and others BTC is at risk. It would be better if you consult this thing in a pro which has already have an experience on making one.

Yes, right but I always wonder whether buying a script is a nice idea or not because yes its low priced and already ready but it might have hidden bugs which our team being new might not find and added to this users always like new and stylish scripts rather than a particular one.

I don't know how much it will cost but I'm sure that it would cost a lot because, starting a gambling site is not a joke. It would take a lot of bitcoin and time to make one. You are going to hire someone who knows how to make one and you are going to pay him of course plus the bitcoin that you are going to use in your gambling site balance as the payment for the users. It is really a complicated one to start, it's not that easy to persuade people to do gambling in your site let's say you already have one.

Its  not  really complicated   as  long you do have the  money  to  put on  when  you really want to build a gambling site  , you  must think  the   things that  to be considered first  when   you  build  one.  100 bitcoin  is already  enough to  build  in  my opinion. Building the  website, bank roll funds,  your workers,  and the marketting  stuff.

2000 BTC? It is roughly $1.5 million! Do you want to compete for the title of the best bitcoin gambling site in existence or something?
I guess you can achieve anything you dream of (at least script wise) while investing a much less. The sky is the limit here.
More money = better service, but if you are not building 'next big thing' you can settle with couple BTC as your total budget.

At first you need if you wanna to make your website atractive to others, or make just a clean casino, with that said i do believe you can make a casino with 10-20 bitcoins, as you will need some extra bitcoins to handle rewards and jackpots, something around 40-50 bitcoins to handle casino and big wins should be enought.

Yeah even the best of sites like primedice and others are hacked like I heard HufflePuff hacked them or something. But they are a big company and it was nothing for them and they didn't even moved. While if the same happens to us or a new owner then he might quit all together. So, I agree with you, coding knowledge is must or hire a prodigy :)

To start off you don't need $300k to create a website. Like most websites did, you can start with a simple interface, a few basic games like dice and roulette, and then you will create the rest as soon as you have enough profit to be worth it. $5k would be perfect for a simple and secure website, in my opinion.

It will cost a lot of money bro hosting, advertising, promo and offers, if you want to build your own gambling site and you think that you cannot afford the minimum amount then try to find a partner that can assist you and contribute, it's really hard to manage a gambling site if you only one.

The biggest threat of buying a script are not the bugs but intentional backdoors left by the programmer which could let him or someone that he knows take advantage of it and win more bets, or plain old stealing.

I think knowledge is needed about bugs and possible loop holes and about investment we don't have to worry as much since investments can be made by gamblers too once the site is in market and has some genuine team behind them.

I do not see many high roller bets on any site, so why attracting big fishes when you are new, just earn with regular gamblers unless you have build big.

Its really to have  a trustable  worker  on  your website which  handles  the  code or  programming of the website because  if you  dont have  completely  the  knowledge  of it atleast  he could able to tell you the possible flaws that  might happen. I agree  that   knowledge about bugs  and some exploits  would  be really helpful because  you could  possibly stop  the lose of money. Before you run  or  open  your  site to the public its really better to test it  out first.

Creating a site isn't the on monetary issues since you can create sites that doesn't cost that much. But talking about making a gambling site will make you encounter a problem on your bank money for that site and security for it that will cost a lot since you can't make a gambling site with a low bank since most people would think that you'll only scam them. But I think of something that will cost not that high and it includes on making your own cryptocurrency so that you would mind on your bank since you're the one who make your cryptocoin.

Honestly saying I think other than primedice and directbet no other site here would have such high bankrolls because seriously 2000 bitcoins is a big amount man. And another thing is if you invest so much at beginning then you cannot afford a downfall of site for any reason say it is legal or personal.

Yeah old gamblers look for new sites because for some weird reasons they think on new site they will win. To start a site I think at least 50-100 BTC are required because I have seen people investing 10-20 btc on sites so investor should always have less invested than site owner I believe.

Well maybe you are right 2000BTC are too high, but i think there are no wrong If it be used for reserve on his casino online and if the OP will build other kinds of gambling game or making promotion out there. The capital for make it will not become problem because of there are reserve on his cold wallet.

Well, to make a gambling site, you must have a lot of BTC, because to create a gambling site, would require a promotion that requires a lot of money. apart from that you also need to create a site that has an attractive appearance, and I think it also requires a lot of money.

2000 Bitcoins is overkill when you intend to build a gambling site and yes as you said the sky is the limit here. Well if you do have the money theres no really problem and with this amount you could able to build a best graphic,security for a gambling site but the question is how people would recognize it? You will surely think of a gimmick or promotions that will surely hook up many potential players.If you do have the money then you have the power.

You cant make a gambling website for something like 2-4btc nowadays, with a good layout and security, but you will need some extra balance to handle users winnings, even knowing that the house always wins, you need a bankroll.