I think that a lot of it comes down to game choice more than house edge. Roulette is a far more entertaining game than slots or dice in my opinion so I play it even though I know it has a higher house edge.

15% is normal for slots in my country. Why do the casinos (brick and mortar) not compete and advertise a lower house edge than their rivals? The advertise promotions and giveaways because that's what brings people in, not a 0.x% better house edge.

Bots are easy to recognise when you look at them. The hard part is finding them amongst 16 million accounts.


It is automatic but wetsuit waited for the draw and then checked the winners and zeroed the balances on the cheats. We are actually getting a lot tougher on multi-accounting abuse and I've deleted several hundred thousand accounts this week.

Maybe 0.8% of 1 Satoshi isn't worth much more than the bet cost to process. People might even get a little frustrated and increase there bet size to speed it up.

Not if you put a chip on 0. 

How many of them know it is 2.7% on roulette or double that on an American wheel? Not many I bet. How many people playing slots at a bricks and mortar casino ever ask the house what the edge is? It is often obsessed about on this forum and that maybe something to do with Bitcoin attracting a certain type of person but in the wider world it really isn't. Have a look on gambling forums and it is hardly ever discussed.

Only 10 hours left in this months wagering contest.



Plenty of time for someone to come in and take the $10,000 first prize.

We're rebranding and expanding freebitco.in so eventually it will have doge as well. There's not much point doing anything to freedoge.co.in before that happens.

Yes, you can do that. You get full flexibility with the chips as you can mix them up or down into any denomination you require.

It is very normal for all gambling sites and also faucets to have low retention rates. The site stats won't tell us much more than that. The vast majority of my referrals only played 1 or 2 spins. They probably saw the "Win $200 for free" in my signature then when they tried it though 'I'll never win' and just didn't come back. It's the few that do stay that matter. One of my referrals started gambling in the last 2 months after having been active since 2013. They've wagered 11.8 BTC this month alone.

Yes, he vanished at a time when there were a lot of problems so wetsuit asked me to take over.



I'll mention it to wetsuit but I wouldn't expect any changes on freedoge.

wetsuit gave me a promotion this week and I now have access to the user database. I'm going to be taking on a lot more responsibilities as wetsuit wants to concentrate on development.

This one is still playing the same account just not with such large amounts. I wouldn't say what their balance was but it is quite normal for people to wager at least 20x a starting balance and sometimes a lot more.

There are not many gamblers that stop while they're ahead and hit the withdraw button but this one did.

I firmly suspect that more than 99% of gamblers either don't know what a house edge is or don't care about it if they do.

It's worse than a baseless accusation. They admitted to multi-accounting abuse which they knew wasn't allowed when they clicked the checkbox that clearly stated the policy when they signup the fraudulent accounts.

The main effect it has is that it can be adjusted to deal with an attack a lot easier than if you have your own custom system. It just saves a lot of work.

All new accounts are excluded from buying lottery tickets until they reach 25 free rolls. Other than that everyone can play.
The bot detection system just bans accounts from free rolls. If I then look at the banned accounts list and find a botnet I just delete the accounts.

I'd love to tell you what we're doing but the botters read this so I won't. A couple of very well informed people contacted me with a lot of insight. I passed that on to wetsuit, along with some ideas of how to use that information and then we come up with some measures to detect them. He does all the really hard work of programming it all up.

I think the lottery is doing really good this week, tickets down to a projected 310 million last time I calculated it. The botters haven't given up as you will see from the new signups on our stats page. But I can say that the vast majority of them are getting 0 Satoshi from us 

It's that one. It was a general enquiry not a critical support issue so it will not get answered through the support email system. Less important issues we deal with through this forum.

Oh and yes please always set the telephone number to recover your 2FA. Also, please set the profile withdrawal address to one you can sign a message from as that is what we need to reset it otherwise.

We get thousands of support emails a day. We do read all of them but only the important issues will get a reply.

The Merit system is the only positive improvement to the forum in years. We're looking for ways to go further in that direction and curb spam and shitposting, not reviewing the thing that actually helped a little.

We've already stopped new users from buying lottery tickets until they have completed 25 free plays. That's more than long enough for the system I came up with to find a very high percentage of the bots. I'm working with wetsuit on ways to stop the rest.


All the best bits of freebitco.in are for players that deposit and gamble their own money.