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Vera&John - First licensed online casino to accept Bitcoin

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Vera&John (http://www.verajohn.com/) is proud to be the first licensed and regulated online casino to accept deposits and withdrawals in Bitcoin (http://www.verajohn.com/about/bitcoin). We host over 200 high quality slot games, many of which are from the same slot games providers that hosted by the traditional “offline” casinos at Las Vegas, Monaco and Macau. New players receive a 100% deposit bonus up to £/€500.

Vera&John offers a wide range of first-class online gambling products and games in a safe and user-friendly gaming environment. We host games from the most popular games providers such as NetEnt, Play'n GO, Betsoft, IGT, Nextgen Gaming, Bally Technologies and Three Pigeons. Vera&John is a EU based casino, regulated by Malta’s Lotteries and Gaming Authority: LGA/CLl/552/2009

At the Vera&John Casino you will find everything from table games such as blackjack and roulette, to slot machines, video slots and other online casino games. In essence, everything that you would like to play at an online casino is here for you to enjoy.

Several games are offering big jackpots (http://www.verajohn.com/jackpots). At the time of writing you can win up to 5,000 BTC from a single bet. Vera&John's legendary Guaranteed Winnings promotion (http://www.verajohn.com/about/guaranteedwinnings) guarantees that every day's biggest win is topped up to €5000 and every month €50,000.

We personally think Vera&John is the best thing since sliced bread.


Using Bitcoin at Vera&John

We provide support directly in this thread and are happy to answer any questions you may have.

Please see answers to frequently asked questions below.

What determines the exchange rate?
Current market rate is applied from several Bitcoin market places such as but not limited to a mixture of all bitcoin marketplaces that exists today. Our rates changes in real time, please see exchange rates on the deposit and withdrawal pages.

Are you using an implementation of "provably fair"?
No, but this website is operated under license number LGA/CLl/552/2009., issued and regulated by Malta’s Lotteries and Gaming Authority.

Are U.S. players allowed if they pay with Bitcoin?
No, U.S. residents are not allowed to use this service. Our regular payment options apply for all deposit methods, whether you deposit with bitcoin or other methods. Please see the Terms & Conditions.


Most Recent News Item: 2014-02-28

sweet! Finally some good news for bitcoin! :O

Wow mobile interface .
how are processed the withdrawal&deposit ? instantly?

Nice!

Finally a officially legit place to gamble! :D
I'll try it out sometime

Tried their blackjack for fun.
I split My hand and thought I was with the 13sum hand but it is the 17, and it ask you to really continue?
I don't think alot of casino would add that to their games. Nice

Hey thanks for the feedback.

The deposits are instant.

About the withdrawals, our European Union casino licence in Malta prohibits us to directly process withdrawals due to anti-money laundering rules and regulations fraud and other issues, so we do need to manually review each withdrawal. We have a large team maintaining this specific topic, on weekends it normally takes 4-10 hours normal days about 4 hours. Officially we say within 24 hours just to not make anyone sad.

I forgot to add: All withdrawals, regardless of the method you use, are treated the same. This includes bitcoin. Once approved, the withdrawal is instant - well, instant - the time it takes for any bitcoin transaction to get confirmed.

This company dont have a way to verify bets.  Play with risk

VeraJohn
How about your affiliate program?
I tried going to the affiliate site but it seems to be down :(
Seems like something I could really get behind and promote...
it would be nice to promote a Bitcoin casino whose affiliate program provides proper stats

Awesome. Watching this thread.

Curiosity: Is there a meaning for this name you picked, "Vera & John" ?

seems like there two threads on this casino seems to have a hero member advertising for him as well, Shouldnt one be taken out of this thread?  double post of a casino is not allowed according to TOS

Agreed, please refrain from posting in the other thread, everybody.

What is the advantage of a licensed casino over provably fair casino?

We like the name, it's something that stands out from the rest of the casinos. That's also why we have a big pink balloon ball as a logo.

Or can you tell us what is the casinos edge?

Good question. We think the provably fair concept is awesome. However, imagine having 8 different software providers providing you established games that have been all focused and developed for fiat currency. To add one provably fair to one single game would be simple. However, there's 400+ different games at 8 different large-scale companies who are providing us with the games, many of which can be played at traditional land based casinos. (IGT, Bally to name a few)

It's a hot topic and we're looking into it, but it'll take a while before anything can be realized. It's just not about changing a few lines of code. It's about persuading many different technology partners to accept and understand the benefits of provably fair.

The benefits?
We're established and been around for many years. We have a huge selection of games. We got a fantastic mobile site and 10 different languages of which a majority has native language support. We're licensed and regulated. Millions of Euros pass through the games we host every day.

We have now started accepting bitcoin as a first step. It's not perfectly executed and we love provably fair, but give us some time. It's a new phenomena and we are still just testing the grounds with bitcoin. All large corporations are like big trains; it takes time to build new railroads in new directions.

Advantage? I wouldn't say we are better than anyone else, verajohn.com is what it is. And we like pink balloons.



The casino edge is different on each game, the highest one is at 98%, the lowest at 93%. You need to check each game for the number.
We also have a large selection of bonuses and rewards for all players at Vera&John.

It shouldn't be down, works perfectly fine now, also checked it this morning and it was working fine then as well.

Please try it again!

Yup
I signed up
Looks like it would convert due to the fact it is so professionally done, nice graphics, licensed, great software
But Ill have to test it out... Im worried about
- users have to fill out more personal info than other Bitcoin Casinos
- no US players allowed

But I feel good abut Vera and John; only time will tell

Thanks, love the feedback!

- no US players allowed
Yeah, the non-US thing is what it is, we decided to follow regulations and do it this way.
That said, millions of euros every day are placed as bets at the games - through European customers.

- Users have to fill out more personal info than other Bitcoin Casinos
Agreed - This is fantastic about the bitcoin casinos. We're not a bitcoin casino per definition. We are an online casino accepting bitcoin. It has its pros and cons.

I can confirm that I could withdraw 0.7 BTC from this casino. I was lucky and won almost 2 BTC from an initial deposit of 0.026, but lost half of it before withdrawing. I got the payment sent out to me the next day.

So, You are making payments for affiliates in bitcoins ?

Looks great can't wait to try it out!

Yes, if you cash out to your player account. Other option is wire transfer to your bank account.

Looks nice indeed, and has mobile interface too. Will take a while until a Bitcoin-only casino has all this stuff.

Is anything in the casino regulation stopping you from letting people see their balance in Bitcoin and bet Bitcoin directly?

This website is simply amazing.

Never been into online casinos, but this one rocks! Games are fun, deposits are instants!

What sucks about these casinos is that you still have to do age verifcation and all that bull crap sign up crap,  Rather stay with bitcoin casinos, they are only copying us now, cause they want piece of the pie, why give them our business, when they didnt want it long ago.

I don't think that they mind Bitcoin as I see clear advantages for casinos to take them (no fees, quick settlement, no chargebacks).  Probably the regulation for online casinos have created slow giants,  and I see no reason to not accept them like any other old-fashioned retailer that starts to accept Bitcoin.

I registered, didn't do any location/age/identity verification, did 3 deposits and one withdraw (all in bitcoins).

What other casinos like this are there? ('coz this one kicks some serious)

What exactly do you mean by licence ??? And if you do have some of that kind is it on your website or published anywhere on the forum i guess we can see it you ensure you are strongly legit   :-\ ???

Not available in Italy.disappointing.

Deposited €20 (+€20 bonus), went down to €10 and I'm now up at €104.38 and it says "You do not have any cash available to withdraw."
This is bonus account thing is really annoying  >:( How much do I have to wager to release my winnings?

I think the bonus thing is basically just for show (as is it in all online casinos).  I made a withdrawal and got a popup saying I had to lose all my bonus money if I chose to withdraw.  I had played for some hours and still only released like 1% of the bonus so I assume it's pretty much impossible to release it anyway.  I figured I just ignore the bonus number and consider it "play money".

They didn't ask me to verify anything either when I withdrew some BTC.

Bump. I would much rather play and talk about this casino than deal with the ponzi game madness that is going on in this forum section.

this is why Ill stick to bitcoin and crypto only sites and stay away from license.  license dont mean anything about it being fair, they can change there code after Audits.

Thanks DjPxH, we're happy you like it!

I have investigated their license here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=514558.0), as it seems they are not very clear on this themselves.

The first deposit bonus has a 40 times wagering requirement before it's released and available for withdrawal. In your case you have to have made bets for a total of €800 and the bonus is yours to withdraw (higher amount if you are playing games other than slot games). Our bonuses are explained on our bonus explanation page (http://www.verajohn.com/about/our-casino-bonuses).

I like your affiliate stats and functionalities. but no USA players can't be a good idea. Dunno if it's worth advertising.

I will show different bitcoin casino banners for visitors from US IP, so it's not an issue. I have a few affiliate methods coming. It would be nice to se banners with bitcoins in them.

Yup that's why these casinos sucks, not allowing USA Players to play when most of us are americans ;D    You guys must be doing bad if you had gotten into bitcoin to up sales.

How do you accomplish this? Are you using wordpress?

No, but you can do it with WordPress, the free MaxMind service and some plugin to execute php code in widgets/posts. But it might not be possible to do on some of these wordpress hosting services.

The smell of shill...it burns...! Seriously, you are attacking this casino for absolutely no reason. The idea looks great.