this is more of a gambling related information aggregator rather than a gambling portal or a casino
hence you should move the topic to the discussion subsection
I found the information very helpful and structured well , the forum itself is far from being as popular as bitcointalk  but its a start
an interesting feature that allows a user to create his own blog on the platform , have yet to test it out

in my years reading bitcointalk and news in general
I learned two things: 1. bitcoin price is unpredictable  2. never trust any cryptorelated news coming from Russia or India
my IMHO - not going to happen , this is not something to just turn the switch on aka issue a bill and the things change
they need infrastructure and at least companies and funds to start moving towards regulating crypto
because once cryptocurrency is treated like assets , there must be a special agency dealing with crimes , special institutions providing official exchange services or banks   , investment funds  etc.
it exists only on paper , at least I heard no such development in Russia
in some unrelated news: there was a huge scandal a fw days ago when a St.Petersburg senator bribed his voters , publicly , with a token of his
he created some cryptocurrency and promised to airdrop it to the ones who would vote for him in the upcoming elections , according to the laws , cryptocurrencies are unregulated , so he , technically , committed no crime
article in russian: https://www.rbc.ru/crypto/news/5d0cc9559a7947b627a76a79

haha , Edward is mega lucky every time he is playing on stream
I remember the beforelast? one where he competed vs Mladen
think he got two! 130x! plinko hits almost head to head
this is some crazy luck , but audaces fortuna juvat - fortune favors  the bold
when you can risk the coins and try some optimistic , in relation to your total bank , bets  you can win big

the more I'm reading about it the more skeptical I become as to wherever the current system will allow something big like this to happen
if the project is complete and is not a total flop , the new coin could challenge fiat
yes it is centralized , yes it can be called crypto just because it is somehow connected with the distributed ledger or blockchain
but this could be the first attempt , the real one to overthrow the fiat supremacy as we know it
it could both open the floodgates for the real crypto to enter the day to day people's lives
or it could compete with bitcoin and make it less viable , lets wait and see
one thing for sure:P financial regulators and institutions won't go down without a fight and I expect sooo many different interesting laws directed at Libra very soon

you will be notified in chat prior to the maintenance
there is a notification on the forum in advance , so players are aware and can plan ahead their gambling sessions
and yes , tonight can mean this night european time , but if no concrete hour was mentioned , it means that the maintenance prep works could be shorter or last longer

Thomas Lee has been at it since the dawn of times
if you make 10 different predictions , some of them might be even close to reality
he has been predicting > 150k growth at some point , I am sure whenever a bulls run occurs the prophecies will be even more generous and numerous
also media following the golden rule: when there is no news , post bitcoin price predictions , you cannot go wrong with them
people will always click on something like : A prominent scientist thinks the Earth will collapse by 2085 or , Wall street analyst says bitcoin will cost 236.999,99$ 
 

we can only speculate as to what have caused the rise
some say there is an incognito investment fund that just started to buy the coins at the exchanges , starting at 7000$
but if we stick to the proven news that could influence the bull run my top three would be:

1.Libra - facebook pseudo cryptocoin , which is a hush hush secret , to an extent that everyone knows about it
as much as I am sceptical about the whole idea , it could mean facilitating the use of cryptocoins in an average Joe's day to day life

2.BAKKT pay launching its own crypto wallet within a month
and soon to introduce bitcoin futures trading testing on a federally regulated futures exchange in collaboration with its parent company Intercontinental Exchange (ICE)

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bakkt-to-roll-out-first-bitcoin-futures-testing-in-july-2019

3. FAFT regulations
despite the news not being too positive ,since the idea is to fight money laundering and stricter control over the exchanges
this puts crypto on the same deck as fiat money , hence recognizing it as a potential fiat substitute

no it won't count as deposited money
the system won't recognize it automatically , there are two easy ways if you want to hunt jackpot but do not fancy depositing big amounts ( or you already have some balance):
1. withdraw and redeposit , the money will count as deposited ,obviously
2. deposit some small change in the same cryptocurrency , for example - I have 0.01 btc from telegram giveaways and forum contests:
https://forum.windice.io/
https://t.me/windice

I deposit 1000 satoshi and vouala , the balance of 0.01001 is counted as deposited

absolutely sure that it won't be accepted in every country in 10 years
guess the situation overall will be more positive for cryptocurrencies and bitcoin in general , but countries like India won't change their stance
there are many countries that explicitly banned bitcoin altogether , ten years is not some huge period of time , not much will change
for bitcoin to start to be accepted globally it has to be regulated and centralized , it is not going to happen , unless they invent some sort of an energy equivalent of a dollar
therefore the amount of energy you spend to produce something , bitcoin for example is money of the future
but this is just daydreaming , the harsh capitalist reality we are living in says every country has its own interests and it is very hard for them to agree even on the smaller things

it seems that one of the security certificates expired , should be working fine after renewal
I updated Firefox and could not access , but if you allow unsigned certificates it is working all right
the only thing that refuses to work for me is chat

its not HYIP but hype these are too different things
and seems like Libra did create some shockwaves in the market
I can't explain the sudden 20% price raise in a matter of a week , there were no other major news
but they are going to get major flak from the financial institutions and I wonder if the project takes off at all
because it directly threatens dollar and the current bubble debt ridden system , less than bitcoin would since its just the same dollar but in an electronic form , but still

their idea of a cashless society is totally different of what we want
their idea is a form of an electronic prison where you can be wiped with a press of a button and controlled every single moment of your life
where all of your data , money etc. is in a database and you won't be able to buy or sell or get a job if you are not on it
or have a bad record , look at the chinese social ranking system , its the reality already

you don't really expect a gambling site to have the same rates as the exchanges that specialize in trading?
dice sites specialize in gambling , with an additional feature of being able to exchange your coins to a different one without athe need to send them elsewhere
the site charges 3-5% fee on top of the average exchange rate , you can check the rates
if you swap one bitcoin , it is not very wise to do so at any gambling site
but if you exchange 100-200k satoshi , you are way better off changing it  on the spot - you save on tx fees and time

it won't affect anything  , since bitcointalk signature campaign was just one of the marketing tools Stake was using
the total amount of bitcointalk direct sign ups are around 50-60 per week ( stats from another campaign on average) thats not even sign ups , its the people who clicked the signature
sign ups are at least 5 times lower than that , so it wasn't the only source of the players influx
as for the crypto spent there , have a look at the five btc winning bet screens , doesn't affect too much , if you ask me

Libra has yet to be announced but already declared the cryptoking
it is waporware at the moment , but maybe , just maybe
one of the reasons of the glorious bull run we are experiencing now
if it comes to life and facilitates the transition from the conventional fiat banking to crypto based payments
I would say , Libra , you are welcome
on the other hand , this is going to be one centralized pseudo cryptocurrency to challenge and substitute bitcoin globally

it is always important to make sure that the game is free of bugs
sometimes it takes additional time to get rid of them when discovered and I prefer a longer wait to a product released that is not developed properly
keno is eagerly awaited, should be coming this week , unless something unexpected happens

the users cannot choose the fee manually , not a single casino has this option (maybe c-games has the closest to this where you can drag the slider withing certain limits and pick the fee)
some of them give you 2-3 options as in 20-40-60k satoshi , for example
but the vast majority have a set fee , it is easier this way and the system , usually , picks the fastest option
there could be times where the mrket situation changes and the mempool gets overloaded and your normal 10k satoshi fee is no longer cutting it , it happens too but not very often
windice has set the upper limit for the feee , it is 20k satoshi now , if I'm not mistaken
the times I withdrew it was way less then that , think I paid under 10k

you understand decentralization wrong here , it is not about how many people have or hold bitcoin
it is that the network is distributed between many instances , called nodes
if the number of nodes decreases greatly and they are all controlled by the same group of individuals , then you can say that bitcoin is not decentralized
while I agree with the statement that whales can make the price go up or down , they have less and less impact and as the time passes and every coin becomes more valuable
even less of the impact , since to change the price even 500 $ in any direction requires thousands of coins sold
and what do you suggest? whales is the necessary "evil" , same as the rich
our society haven't invented any better form of rule as of yet , so you have to deal with it , besides 90% is an overstatement
I am sure bitcoin is spread very much evenly between the big holders and the miners/general public

following up:

https://cointelegraph.com/news/binance-to-open-us-based-division-with-fincen-approved-partner/amp

Binance is reportedly forming a new trading platform targeting U.S.-based clients dubbed Binance US
Fincen approved partner means that there should not be a problem running it inside the US ... hopefully
now the US customers can sigh with relief (?)

Binance , the Malta based exchange, announced on Friday that it is barring the US customers from its services :
The sudden shutting down reportedly prompted the US customers to withdraw a large number of altcoins, which included Binance’s very own native token BNB coin.
BNB token dropped 5$ in price following the news , from 36$ to 31$

read more:

https://www.newsbtc.com/2019/06/15/bitcoin-price-jumps-above-8700-following-binance-us-closure/