We are waiting for a few technical details about the fork become more clear before making any announcements on the matter. We expect things to be clear enough to make an announcement within the next 1 - 2 weeks. Ideally, our plan is to handle it the same way as we handled the Bitcoin Cash fork.

The investor lock-in commission refunds have been paid out. Thank you to all our investors!

The altcoin bettor rakeback event has been paid out, good luck and have fun with your rakebacks!

The investor event will be paid out tomorrow.

There are no plans to add sports betting at this time. Any games involving long events outside of the site will not work very well with our current investment system due to allowing instant investment and divestment at any time.

SegWit has gone live at Bitvest! All new users will receive a SegWit address by default. If you are a returning user, after you make a deposit, your next address will be a SegWit one. All old addresses will continue to function as normal indefinitely. Once the majority of transactions we receive are to SegWit addresses, we will be lowering our withdrawal fees. This is expected to happen in the next 2 - 3 days.

The lock-in promotion has expired. But basically, it'd be a rebate after 23-30 days sent back to the account equal to 20% of the commissions charged on any locked investments. So if you had 5 LTC in investment commissions On Oct 1. You'd receive 1 LTC back to your account.

Yes, there are no plans to drop support for legacy addresses. The only new addresses generated will be SegWit ones.

We will be transitioning to Segwit addresses for all deposits later this week, this will allow us to drop our withdrawal fees by 50% or more while still maintaining our quick confirmations!

We expect the Ethereum and Litcoin players to come shortly once they become aware of our latest update

Changing your selected coin for betting changes what is displayed there. I'll look into making it controllable by drop down as well too.

I'll update the API shortly
Edit: Done

Update: We are almost ready to go live, we'll be back in 10 - 20 minutes!

We're back! Best of luck to everyone!

Only investments created before the deadline are eligible. You may keep the extra margin investment open when you create a second investment, but the second will have standard margin.

Altcoin launch event!

For Bettors:
All bettors will receive 5% of the house edge back at the end of the September for any altcoin bets placed, even if they have made a profit!

For Investors:
To reward our early altcoin investors, we will be giving the following bonuses to investors who start an altcoin investment shortly after our launch:

• All altcoin investments created before 23:59 GMT September 7th will have 2x higher margin limits available. You may keep your chosen margin level permanently as long as the investment is not divested.
• All altcoin investments locked in before 23:59 GMT September 7th for 30 days or more will receive a 20% refund of commissions on 23:59 GMT October 1st.

The altcoin update will be live at midnight GMT August 29th, 14.5 hours from the time of this post! We will be down for maintenance at 10 PM GMT August 28th for the updates.

We will look into adjusting the fees once we have SegWit deposits enabled. As of right now, we're paying well over 100k for the smallest of withdrawals due to the major spike in fees, overall we've paid more in fees to miners than we've collected from our users.

There is a known issue with the animation not fully completing if there is any lag towards the end. The number on the board is always the correct outcome.

Altcoin launch event!

For Bettors:
All bettors will receive 5% of the house edge back at the end of the September for any altcoin bets placed, even if they have made a profit!

For Investors:
To reward our early altcoin investors, we will be giving the following bonuses to investors who start an altcoin investment shortly after our launch:

• All altcoin investments created before 23:59 GMT September 7th will have 2x higher margin limits available. You may keep your chosen margin level permanently as long as the investment is not divested.
• All altcoin investments locked in before 23:59 GMT September 7th for 30 days or more will receive a 20% refund of commissions on 23:59 GMT October 1st.

We will be launching our altcoin betting and investing early next week! Stay tuned for more updates, good luck and have fun everyone!

We will be supporting SegWit for all BTC (and possibly LTC) deposits shortly after our Altcoin launch. This means lower fees and faster confirmations for everyone!

The bonus offering details will be coming within the next couple days.

Our Ethereum node is nearly finished syncing. It should be done within the next two hours. Altcoin betting will not be going live at that time, but later this week.

We plan to have a bonus for early investors for anyone opening an investment within the first week of our altcoin support. More details to come soon.

We will consider adding BCH within the next couple months if it ends up being a stable and popular coin long-term.

Bitvest may be running slower with intermittent lag for the next ~18-24 hours as we sync our Ethereuem node.

Edit: Our Ethereum node is continuing to sync and should be finished within ~4-6 hours.