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I have been investing in bitcoin since it's inception. I've used it for very notorious things, DW, sports bettings, buying lifelong subscriptions etc. Well I am kind of over that and the other day it occurred to me when I lost my last hand of blackjack. Why don't I just make my own?? I did lots of googling and the templates available make you pay extra fees and add scripts to enable games. Total rip off.

Are there any normal bitcoin templates out there? I already have hosting and domain from previous thing. It seeems so damn easy and I feel like most of the time your losing anyway.

If someone could help point me in the right direction that works I will send them a gift, seriously!!!

You can get some ideas with these threads on what you are looking for;

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1478559.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1062680.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=918428.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1537628.0

Creating a casino is something that has to do with spending huge money and the nice looking of a gambling website templates also makes gamblers believe the site has required bankroll. With that been said, I believe you can still get a bitcoin template at the rate of $2 on themeforest or post on the service (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=52.0) what you're looking for but I will advise you to go for grade and good looking one.

there are some open source bitcoin/cryptocurrency casinos and betting scripts listed on github. you might find what you're looking for in one of these repos:
https://github.com/topics/casino

You can find pretty decent and reliable scripts with a couple of good google search of "Bitcoin Casino Github Code", like this one https://github.com/Bitlits/Bitcoin-Casino.

They are pretty frequent nowadays with the main problem not obtaining the code, but instead getting the resources to launch it (enough capital to pay for marketing and other services), as well as having a big enough bankroll to attract big betters.

Firstly, check with your country laws or a lawyer if you are even able to make a casino where you are.

Go ahead if you feel you have the resources to make a successful casino, I believe it's a profitable business if you can compete with the big reputable casinos in the space now. I will add this thread to my watch list, hopefully you'll keep updating on your progress so it could also inspire others who have the same passion. As for me, I just like to gamble but i don't have the tools to go as like your plan.

Secondly, please please please have someone check the code before implementing this.

Spending for someone to do a quick audit may save you a lot of money down the road incase there are backdoors in the script.

All in all, if you can afford to get a dev to code the casino for you, do so. It'll pay off in the end having your own code. Remember, the one caveat for open source scripts is that if it's not popular enough to be source-reviewed/well maintained, it can become a security risk.

I have interesting gambling bot idea if you are interested in cooperation PM me.

What are the specific games you want to add to your casino? If dice and slots then there is a lot of open-source out there as stated in the above comments. If poker and other cards game then you need a specialist developer for that game since it's a bit complicated. In that case, I can refer you to my friend that set up a card game in the different casino in Costa Rica. Actually he lives there. I can contact him to help you and let you two negotiate. Just PM me if you are really interested.

Maybe what you want after all is a whitelabel casino. You don't want to start from scratch yet, until you learn a bit more about running a casino and managing revenues, along with expenses you haven't thought about, like support staff, promotions, marketing. Hosting and maintenance is the least of your worries, though once you grow, you might find you need dedicated servers, bigger bandwidth, better security.

1. Buying those scripts and paying for each option doesn't show you the cost for maintenance and upgrades to the script later on. And you'll be limited in what you'll be able to modify after.
2. Building your own without experience might lead you down the wrong path.
3. Better to see a few whitelabel options and try the one you like first.

P.S. It's not as easy as it looks;)

Simply having an online casino does not mean it will be successful, nor does it mean that players will join and play.

You need much more than a whitelabel script to make a successful casino... These include marketing (expensive), a relatively large bankroll and hosting that can take the burden if someone tries to DDOS you.

Also, people are sick to death of the same old same old, basic games aren't going to cut it anymore, hence why casino based on templates are basically DOA.

Almost missed that step, good post mate, I'd recommend getting a white hat hacker to try and get into your system, and getting a auditor to have a look at your system would be another good idea.

These 2 options would cost you a lot of money but will save you a lot in the future if your casino is ever hacked, or vulnerabilities are ever exposed.

I will still recommend you go look for a coder that will work with you for equity, way better then using free code.

Oh yeah, it's so easy to make casino. Bet365 just bought template from some php developers and then everything started, omg. Well, you can buy template or cms from themeforest or codecanyon but you can't really run casino on them. At first to run casino you need high security and a lot of money + license. Then just html5 based blackjack game isn't enough too, a lot of people prefer live casinos, live blackjack and you have to make contract with such service providers which is pretty expensive too.

If you are not a programmer that can tweak any template either free or premium and you don't have the capital to pay well for a veteran programmer, it is better to stay away from it. The security aspect is very essential, even the almighty binance was hacked and you are going o be dealing with people's data and money. You need to do a well-structured finding including the legal framework within your domain.

Of course, there's a lot of templates out there, but the thing is you really don't know if there's some backdoor on the code specially if you are a non technical guy. That's why it is really not advisable to used free templates out there as it might give you a big head ache in the end. There could be some that offer licenses, If I'm not mistaken, to be able to used their build in apps and then you will just have to customized it. It's not that easy as you pointed out, there are things that you really need to take care of specially in the back end.

Yeah. That's a good point, all the free templates out there are likely ridden with bugs and backdoors and if you don't have anyone that's competent with code there's just going to be no point for you to run a casino - once any hacker sees your project, it'll just get hacked.

You can try raise money through friends and family and actually fund a good developer to work for you. Or get lucky and find someone willing to do it for equity.

Or he can make a bank loan, I think that will be a good start and if that doesn't work then go to your friends and families instead of looking for investors. Yes there could be angel investors out there but it will be very difficult because of the current (worsening) conditions of the market. I doubt that he can find partners or programmers who's willing to work for equity as these guys usually do one job and then go on the next.

Before taking any loans on any banks or loans into his close friends or relatives just make sure on the things hes trying to create because not
all would succeed as you think or he can see on some gambling sites that generate monstrous income.About scripts and templates its much better
if he do hire some developer but be sure that there would be no backdoors because it will be all useless.

I think you underestimate how easy it is to get a bank loan. To get a decent sum (enough for some basic marketing and enough for decent code), it'll be something over 25,000 USD.

Banks don't just give this money randomally and you'll need a buisness plan for them to grant such a loan to you, but since banks dislike crypto and dealing with crypto ventures, you'll likely never get it.

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Creating a crypto gambling site may not be an easy task but making the people to play on it is the real job behind creating one for that you may need few thousands of dollars to advertise it and also need team to actively monitor the things going on your website so if you are ready to spend money to make some then you can but having this idea just to don't want to lose your money to other gambling sites looks silly for me.

I've done it a couple years ago. A full site. Had to close it due to lack of volume and you really need to spend time and money on it for all sorts of expenses aside from hosting and domain. You'll preferably want to run a full node on it (maybe pruned) if it accepts bitcoins, even if just to watch the wallet.

Before that, I ran a weekly lotto/raffle on these forums.

I might help a new site get launched, but I don't know the extent of my involvement yet.

It would be possible to open a casino using only 3rd party providers and these agreements are fairly easy and affordable to make, you would then need a reasonably talented UI dev to build a site around them.

You can use them for table games, slots, live games, sports betting, pretty much anything you like these days. There's a lot more than just this of course which goes into running a casino, it's always best to have a team member experienced in running casinos and to have the tightest security, as online casinos are a target. I'm the CEO of Play Royal which is an established Tron casino now breaking out into the general cryptocurrency market and I'd be happy to have a chat with you if you have any questions.

Just a little bit of tip after you have somehow develop your own crypto gambling site, since I think you are new from this stuff I think you must know that even if you have a fully working gambling site you must know that before you can operate it you must be legally licensed to go on business with it. I'm talking about registering a gambling license for you to operate and one of the most quickest and safest ways is having your own website licensed by the island country of Curacao which a lot of crypto gambling sites registered their businesses. The license if of course recognized by a lot of countries who welcome international gambling sites for their citizens to play with and the license also is an added benefit for boosting your reputation as a trusted gambling site.

If your strategy for making your own casino is to google for templates and then complain that they make you *gasp* pay money, then perhaps bankrolling a casino might not be a good idea for you. I've seen a silly amount of people on this forum use a template they googled and spam up the Gambling section with their revolutionary 1% house edge dicing game and it gets tiring; obviously, you won't get anyone using your casino if you do that.

If you want to make your own casino you need to be prepared to fork out 4 or even 5 digits on custom development (unless you are a skilled front-end and back-end developer), and have 5 digits minimum for bankrolling also. If you can't afford those - which you probably can't if template fees are a big deal to you - then don't start one.

You obviously have no idea what you are talking about. Just go back to sleep rather.

Templates? Do you even know what a template is? How are you going to make a casino with templates?

lol, "hosting and domain" oh wow then you just about ready right??

"It seeems so damn easy" Eh? So where is your casino? You are not serious you made one post and you haven't even come back to reply.

Btw just the payment structure alone is a mission to put together. If you make a mistake or use some dodge script you could lose everything. You also need a large bankroll. I think at least 50x your minimum bet amount.

I have to post again there. I wouldn't say 3rd party providers are affordable for everyone, it really needs good amount of money. What games do you want in your casino? Only dice? Even in this case you need to have huge bankroll in order to accept high bets from players and cover possible loses. Opening a casino doesn't mean it's the date where profit start counts. And also if you want other games like Live Blackjack, Baccarat and others, still you have to sign contract with live game service providers which aren't as affordable as you think. They charge good amount of money and without dedicated tables, you just depend on their generic rules.

And how many of such sites are taken seriously? I won't even bother checking a site out if it's all 3rd party providers. They're simply not reliable and have the worst support from the community.

Accurate as it can get! I wonder how someone working in a Domino's wakes up and plans to start a gambling website when they don't know how to write a line of code.

creating a bitcoin casino is more than just paying money and buying a hosting and a script
this is a very dangerous and hard business to start , there is so much competition and you need to have a decent bank to start with
I would say that even 3 bitcoins is not enough to start a good casino nowadays , you got to pay for marketing, set up and also make sure you have enough to pay the winners etc.
if you want to create it as some sort of a hobby project is one thing , but if you plan to make money , you'd have to do a lot of research first and come up with an original idea at the very least
my advice: check the quotes and ....  forget the idea , it is not worth it if you don't have good coding , marketing skills or at least a solid bank to hire a pro team

I've gotta say that I really love the poll that the OP has put on this thread:

https://i.gyazo.com/073ed1c197f4c8eb4724cbadd8cbd895.png

"Has it been done before on here" - genuinely asking whether or not someone in the history of Bitcointalk has ever made a casino ::) Judging by the 22k topics and 1.8m posts in the Gambling section, I think I'll have to go with no, no-one has ever done that. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKmBEdY35mA)

guys I don't know where I should talk about the opportunities I have here in Iran, but as you just said, in Iran I can loan money from bank from $23k to $75k without any plan or anything at all (I put my lands docs for this loan),! and in half an hour I can chage it to BTC, I have authority for this loan and everything ready , the payback plan start 5 years after paying day, and its 3% profit at all. But 2 problem I have : if i won't  change it from rial it will turn to nothing because of Iran economical collapse and low money level .

There are a lot of white label casino providers out there, but the trick is to find the legitimate operations that would not build in some backdoor in their code to empty your bankroll, once you are operational.

Unfortunately there are a lot more to running a casino than just downloading a script and getting people to gamble at your site. In many countries you will have to deal with obtaining a gambling license and if you want to bypass that step, then you will have to find ways to run the casino on a platform, where it cannot be taken down.

You will also have to fund a massive Bankroll and have a huge marketing budget to compete with other online casinos out there.  ::)

Any casino that is opened has to have funding behind it to payout anyone that wins big and there is a minimum requirement that is needed to be able to get a gambling license. Most Bitcoin gambling services over in the gambling sub forum are not licensed and could be taken down in the near future. We will be seeing increasing legislation with gambling and Bitcoin in the near future so make sure to acquire a gambling license before opening anything. 

You only need a gambling license if you want to go legal. The trend at the moment seems to be that most online gambling operations are not going the legal route, because it is too expensive to pay for these licenses and to adhere to all the rules & regulations that goes with that.

So you find that these people are hosting these websites on services that are not easily traceable or out of reach of their local law enforcement agencies. The primary reason is also tax evasion in their own countries and some even use these sites to launder money for their other illegal activities.  :o