Ah... I see why you are doing this OP ....." Refer a friend, get $10 ...On their first deposit, you both get $10! " ....Well Done on innovative thinking.    Something that I picked up in the ToS ===> "All Non-U.S. and Non-E.U. players, can always participate in warm-up free to play tournaments."

Also, they require (a) full name; (b) permanent physical residential address and a billing Zip Code in a jurisdiction in which participation in the tournament you select in Ultimate Arcade is unrestricted by law; and (c) credit card or other payment information, which information and/or signing authorization may be verified by Ultimate Tournament (becoming a "Cash Player").

So people that does not qualify to play here, will struggle to bypass all these KYC requirements. 

Yes, we have seen a steady growth in the Bitcoin price, since it has been released ....but it is not a guarantee that it will continue on the same trend. In theory.... the Bitcoin price should continue on this trend, because it is designed on the principle of scarcity ...like other commodities for example Gold.

The problem is, scarcity does not guarantee a high price, if there are no demand or use case for it. We have to make sure that there are a constant demand for bitcoins, by supporting the retail outlets and shops that accept Bitcoin as a payment option. (Do not just hoard your bitcoins... use some of it... and keep buying more) 

I think by revealing only the city name, the casino are not endangering the players real identity. In the 2020 census, Iloilo City had a population of 457,626 inhabitants, with a 0.42% population annual growth rate. For the metropolitan area, the total population is 1,109,649 inhabitants. Source : https://artsandculture.google.com/entity/iloilo-city/m04wdb1?hl=en (So finding a single Lotto winner in a metro with 1,109,649 people will be extremely hard)

Some winners even allow the Lotto operators to publish their name, without the surname for promotion and publicity, because it gives some credibility to the lotto operation. 

I can still remember a few years ago... how we as a Bitcoin community... reached out to countries like Greece, when they had a situation where Banks closed their doors. We saw old pensioners breaking down in front of closed Banks and people going crazy in very long queues... because they only had 1 currency (Fiat) to make payments. 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-07-04/crying-greek-pensioner-behind-the-photo/6594984

Did anyone learn from this.... or did they see this happen.... and then simply moved on with their lives?

I think the moment when the Bitcoin price goes to a new all-time-high of $100 000 .....hardcore hoarders will bend the knee ....and they will sell some of their coins. I think whole coiners will significantly go down after the $100 000 per coin is reached .... and the only people with whole coins will be early coiners and Whales like Elon Musk.

The speculators (weak hands) will jump ship between $70 000 and $80 000 per coin ..... because they are simply hunting profits. I know I well never sell all my coins..... so I will hang around until we reach $1 000 000 per coin. 

CasinoRank is an advanced system developed by AskGamblers professionals to appoint unbiased ratings to online casinos and thus give players a clearer picture of what they can expect from a casino brand. The secret of CasinoRank lies in its complex algorithm that considers all aspects of an online casino and updates the rating accordingly. Source : https://www.askgamblers.com/online-casinos/casinorank

Well, I am not sure if this so-called algorithm is very trustworthy....   ....also, it takes only 15% inputs from actual users with player reviews.  (This can be manipulated a lot) 

How many players from Stake.com actually take the time to do player reviews?

Karl, you guys owe me a huge win to recoop the money that I lost due to my grandmother taking over my gaming notebook to play these Bingo games. (joke)  ......but yes, I made the mistake to show her the selection of games and now she wants to "borrow" my gaming notebook to play these games. 

I am in the process of buying a low spec notebook for her, to FREE up my gaming notebook now. So.... may the gambling Gods give me one big Jackpot to fund the purchase of this notebook. 

I appreciate the contributions of alternative options, but the convenience of typing a short URL (preev.com) to reach a very effective service to convert BTC value to Fiat currencies...has been one of the advantages of using this site. 

It also provided good source data from very large trading platforms to get a very accurate value for the Bitcoin price. Preev.com is a no nonsense service with all the basic features that you want. (No unnecessary bells and whistles and clutter)   

The biggest problem with Zimbabwe is the high levels of mismanagement and corruption in their government. The Mugabe government decided to challenge the "West" and the result was economic sanctions that crippled their economy even further.

At one stage.... their citizens opted to use "sweets" as substitute for small change, because the hyper inflation killed the value of their ZIM Dollars and people rather wanted "sweets" instead of a hand full of worthless fiat currency. 

Bitcoin has also been used as a hedge against inflation, but the lack of Internet infrastructure and also stable electricity and 3rd world education system...has sabotaged it's success.

One thing I have learned from Bitcoin price history is that it is not predictable at all. There are just too many factors that influence the price and trying to link Bitcoin mining to that, will eventually fail too. We saw several predictions linked to Bitcoin mining when the Bitcoin price took a 80% nose dive in 2020.. and most of them were wrong. 

We had periods of 3 years between a "crash" and a next "All-time-high" Bitcoin price spike.... so all this guess work is simply a waste of time. Just concentrate on increasing Bitcoin adoption ....and the Bull-run will happen on it's own. 

Bitcoin will become mainstream, when a global collapse of Fiat currencies happens. We saw what happened in countries where the Fiat based economy collapsed... (Zimbabwe) ...and people started to search for alternative payment options like Bitcoin. 

Do not think Bitcoin wallets are too complex for people to learn, because uneducated people in 3rd world countries in Africa are using M-Pesa that are even more complex to learn. (Mobile payment method) 

Well, even if gambling were hereditary.... people still have a choice to do it. You should actually be more cautious if gambling addiction is part of your genetic makeup. A lot of people have certain health problems that are hereditary, like for example "Diabetes" .... so the children in the family should then decide if they are going to "live" more healthy to avoid it.... or if they going to eat wrong food and increase the risk to get Diabetes later in their life. 

So, you still have a choice in the matter.... and you should not just blame your weak genes, for the bad choices you make. 

I think after all the destruction with the bombing from Russia ....most internet infrastructure are destroyed. The Russian controlled areas will most probably be restored, so people will rather resort back to the infrastructure that was there before the war started.

I will rather use Elon Musk's Starlink for a more secure communication media, but I doubt if people in a war zone... will be able to pay for that.  (the base price for Starlink service is $135 a month) 

Just to make sure that everyone are talking about the same thing here....

OP, when you are talking about the "Payout percentage" .....are you referring to the RTP (Return to Player)? If you are referring to the actual RTP, then this are more or less determined by the 3rd party game providers. They do give some options to the casinos to choose what RTP they want to apply, but the options are limited and linked to the specific game being played.

Some casinos have their own "original" games ....and they determine the RTP for those games. The RTP is better for the players on the original games, because the casino does not have to share the profits with a 3rd party provider. 

I was wondering....

Let's say you decide to scale down on gambling for a while .... or you want to accumulate your "Weekly" and "Monthly" rewards to have a bigger balance to play with.... will your base amount decrease for the "Weekly" and "Monthly" ...if you do not gamble for a few weeks?

I know your "Weekly" & "Monthly" increase ...if you play 3rd party Slots and Sport betting.... but you have to spend more money...than what you receive in return to boost that amount.

Will inactivity influence your base amount for the "Weekly" & "Monthly" ?

There are multiple layers to security and there are differences between a LAN and a WAN. Why are companies storing all the KYC data on their WAN and not on external storage that are being archived and not connected to the WAN. 

They can process "new" applicants data online.....and once that is completed, they can shift that data to offline storage to reduce the chances that hackers could get access to that data.

So the blame should be with the people responsible to safeguard it. 

You have obviously not dealt with "Brick n Mortar" casino management before.... right? They really only care about one thing ===> "Money" and they could care less about the people who are feeding them those profits.

This employee will certainly not work for them for much longer, because they will find ways to get rid of him. (He is bad for business)  ...The only reason why many of them care about gambling addiction ....is the bad "image" or "reputation" that their industry get, when people cannot handle their gambling addiction... and the backlash that they get when things goes very wrong. 

In the end ... business is business... and companies are doing this for profits. 

OP, no system is "Fail Safe" .....even if you play at Brick n Mortar casinos. People can easily get fake "KYC documents" on the Internet to bypass the KYC requirements. So the problem is not with Stake.com, but rather with you not willing to face your gambling addiction and dealing with it.

You should seriously rather focus on getting some help with your addiction and stop wasting time on "playing" with workarounds to continue gambling. Good luck with sorting out the real problems.... and getting on with your life. 

I am glad to see that there are actually casinos out there that are leading the industry into creating "use cases" for the Lightning Network and also promoting micro transactions. So you definitely have my support on this one, because I want to see the Lightning Network going mainstream in the future ....and it cannot go mainstream if it has no "use case" 

I am not sold on the "We will never ask for KYC details" ...because most new casinos start out with that....and as soon as they get enough users, they dump that policy and they start asking for it. 

Well, how things have changed in only a few years....  :

A while back.... Banks blocked people's credit cards, when they linked any transactions to "Bitcoin"..... now they give "No Limit" credit cards to encourage "Super Rich" people to covert their Bitcoin to Fiat. 

Still a sleazy Bank trick to get super rich people not to hold Bitcoin..... by making the "instant Fiat" conversion possible on a credit card.