It's good to be this busy. 

I've got the village idiot on ignore but I guess he's got his tin foil hat on again. We're not based in the US and in the US regulators own words their jurisdiction only extends to sites that 'operate mostly within the US'.

My role will not involve any programming as wetsuit wants me to take over all the day to day running tasks so he has more time to do development and strategy.

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You've got it right in that reducing the house edge would mean removing something else. We're happy we have the balance correct at the moment and will not be changing that.

Why have you been hired then and why does this thread exist?
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I'm not saying that the forum isn't still important to us. I was originally hired to give support here to our existing customers and those that come here from the links we give to the forum from our site. What I mean is that just about everyone that is involved in Bitcoin already has (or had) an account with us. New customers come from a wider audience.



What I do know from the 6 months that I've been working for him is that if profitability increases he'll ask me how to increase the rewards without encouraging the bots, not how to reduce the income that funds those rewards. That to me is the whole business model and what brings new customers in from that wider audience that doesn't obsess about house edge in the way people here do.

I have to meet him as I'm moving out there to take over running all day to day operations.

Exactly. The forum != our potential customer base.



I can't see why he would change something that is working so well. I haven't asked him about this but it just seems illogical to do that to me. I'm going to meet him the week after next so it's going to be fun to chat and find out.

Ignoring the minority in order to keep serving the overwhelming majority.


Yes, as I just said it was originally intended to be tempory and reduced. But it turned out that it didn't reduce gambling volume and spending the money by adding reward points, a lottery etc. was a more successful way to expand the business by attracting more customers than lowering the house edge would have been.

The site was originally funded by advertising and had a 0% house edge dice game just for fun. After about two weeks the bots turned up and started abusing the faucet so the 5% house edge was added. It was originally intended to be reduced but wetsuit stumbled on a sucessful business. It turns out there are many people that are far more interested in the extras we give and really don't care about the house edge. Over time advertising revenue dried up as rates reduced for incentivised sites and the site evolved into what it is now. We could completely change our business model and go and compete with dozens of other sites in the crowded low edge sector or we could ignore the few complainers and continue the way that works for us.

That was the point I just made. You are welcome to do that and there are plenty of sites competing for your business. We offer a different service and that has been very popular and successful for nearly 5 years now.

DiceBots and scripts don't break any rules. In fact, we make more money from people that use them than the ones that don't. The people that use them tend to keep on wagering the same funds over and over until they eventually lose. The simple fact is that when you gamble on random numbers, whatever system you use, there will be a sequence of rolls that will result in you busting. The larger the sample size of bets is the higher the probability that it will include that sequence.

When it comes to morals people are entitled to think whatever they want to about gambling. Our business model uses a 5% house edge to fund a faucet, rewards program and lottery. When people ask about reducing the house edge I ask them which of those things we should remove to pay for it. Most people it turns out would rather we didn't. If they don't want those things then they can go to other sites but we're not going to change a successful business.

Bots come in two varieties. The bots that cause a problem are the ones that claim free rolls and are used to massively abuse the faucet with multi-accounting. The other ones that automate playing dice are no problem at all as they do not give the player any advantage over someone playing manually or using our auto-bet function.
If anyone wants to use a bot for that I would recommend https://bot.seuntjie.com/
It is open source so you'll know for sure that it doesn't contain malware, it has many built-in strategies and a programming interface to create your own.
The developer is also honest and trustworthy, he understands gambling and doesn't pretend his bot can do things that are not possible.

https://steemit.com/gambling/@seuntjie/why-botting-doesn-t-work-at-casinos

He doesn't have a point that I haven't demonstrated is flawed logic many times already. As he keeps on repeating the same things and demonstrating he no understanding of gambling and is incapable of conducting a conversation (hint you have to address the rebuttal and not just repeat your false statements) I've put him on my ignore list. Just do the same and leave the village idiot sat in the corner talking to himself.

The reason that isn't displayed is that it wasn't tracked from the beginning of the site so we don't have fully accurate numbers. We're probably going to add it soon as that only effects accounts that signed up in the first couple of years.


That's right. It is a ratio of free winnings to wagered on dice, jackpots and lottery tickets bought.

That's right. Gambling on random numbers is purely about luck. There are plenty of snake oil salesmen pushing systems and scripts that make false promises that they increase your chances when that is actually impossible to do. They usually come with the proviso that you sign up to the snake oil salesman's referral link and they are actually designed purely to maximise the referral commision by trying to roll over the same coin as many times as possible.

That's right, you're at the maximum which is a 19x bonus on top of the base reward added to all prize levels.

It's the multiply BTC bonus as displayed on the free BTC page.

Not really a problem. Just don't use more than one account for free plays as I'm getting tough on people that abuse that.

Up until last year it was always in my signature here so not really possible to hide it.



I used to get about 800 tickets a week.



Quite nice considering I've never paid to advertise it.

The first thing to do is to extend your session. That gives an extra 7 days as insurance. I would also send a follow-up email to support if you have already been waiting 2 days for a response.

PM me your user ID and/or email address and I can have a look.

I didn't think about that, I just turned lottery off on my account this week as I guess a few people here would go a bit crazy if I won something. Most of my tickets came from referrals so I didn't notice that it doesn't apply to wagering yet.

Why is there always one that has to encourage the troll?

You can turn off lottery in your profile and you get reward points instead. If you save up 100,000 of them then you can exchange them for 1 Satoshi each.