I did not look at the data, I am going by your figures and was surprised at the 1.5 BTC you mentioned. If you are right, he was making over 500 BTC per year and that is simply unbelievable. Well done to Daniel of course if those are a fair reflection of BTC he is making. I had no idea the profitability for the owner would have been that much.

You are speculating that after the change of hands, the previous investors might pull out? There are drops in the bankroll happening already but I see the bright side of this, individual investors stake increases and their possibility of higher wins increase proportionately as the other investors cash out. Hence I am sticking with my same plan and not touching my investment at all.

Just want to point out that I made 4% gains from my 2months investment on Moneypot - had to cash out after their declared their shut down and Leo moving to BAB and BAD now. I have faith in Leo along with Daniel and Ryan, so I am at ease.

Really?

While it's true that the business is extraordinarily profitable, the financial aspect is secondary to me at this point. For me the sale is primarily about the responsibility that comes with owning bustabit and bustadice and the time commitment they require.

I could certainly save some time by hiring more staff, but some tasks cannot be delegated. For instance, I don't believe it's possible to reasonably give someone else full access to the database or game servers given how easy it would be for them to cheat bankroll investors without anyone ever knowing. So at a minimum I would continue to always be on call 24/7, involved in every server upgrade etc. That's not to mention that (IMHO) bustabit's success is at least in part due to me, its owner, being so accessible to players. I'm convinced bustabit would lose some of its appeal if it stopped being a "mom and pop" casino.

But even if somehow I could delegate everything and not have to spend any of my time at all, as the owner I would ultimately still consider myself responsible for players' and bankroll investors' money. That's not a burden I want to bear indefinitely. Of course I could have simply shut the casinos down, but that serves neither players, nor bankroll investors, nor myself well. Handing the reigns to Leo is the best thing I could do.

Some skepticism is natural, of course, but I remember that when I launched bustadice and later acquired bustabit I was virtually unknown and many people felt similarly about me. I like to think that I ended up doing alright and proving their concerns to be unfounded.

When there is full peace here, they come around, don't they? 
Some are sore losers, others are scammers looking to squeeze out a penny or two by making baseless accusations without even any single required proof. Maybe they think members around here will be fooled by their antics. Time wasters.

That depends on why I'm not able to operate them anymore, but I assume you're thinking about a bus-type situation. I've taken precautions to ensure that even in the worst case at a minimum bustabit can be wound down cleanly. I can't promise that bustabit and bustadice continue operating without me, but everyone including bankroll investors would be able to safely withdraw.

For bustadice the factor is 80,000,000 instead of 55,000,000, but apart from that it is the same.

You mean: https://bustadice.com/bankroll_stats.csv ?

@Daniel on a side note, it'd be kinda nice to have a .html version (e.g. a formatted table) of those stats, right now the .csv is hard to read unless you import it into a spreadsheet

Estimating the bankroll's rate of return is difficult because of how many variables there are, but I'll give it a shot:

In 2021, bustabit saw 27,398,415 XDR in gross gaming revenue and the bankroll's current size is 39,339,068 XDR. Let's assume that the gross gaming revenue will be the same going forwards and let's also assume that the commission rate will stay the same at its current 80.9%. Further assuming there are no investments or divestments, that represents an estimated return of 5,233,097 XDR or 13.3% for bustabit's bankroll in 2022.

In reality, players won't win/lose exactly the same amount they did in the past, the commission rate will continue to change with the size of the bankroll and Bitcoin's price and investors will add to and remove from the bankroll. These things are difficult to model, though, and require more assumptions of their own.

For bustadice it's even more difficult because its revenue is less consistent and the bankroll is still recovering from a loss in early 2021. Using the same methodology as above I arrive at an estimated rate of return of only 0.3% per year. In reality, its average annual revenue is larger than it was in 2021 and the bankroll will probably decrease in size once it reaches its all-time high profit again and it starts paying the commission again.

I checked both Bustabit and Bustadice, one has around 2188 BTC and the other has around 2200 BTC in bankrolls. If memory serves correct both websites had around 10,000 BTC bankroll each last year.

Why such large divestment in such a short space of time?

There is no situation where it is not as high as anticipated, if that happens we are really screwed, like it would all go to devans as a punishment for investing too much and if people are fine with that only one that will gain from this would be devans, nobody would gain from this. Obviously people do not want to be the one to get out, if I am in this and if it will go back to what it was, I will profit from this, and why would I get out of something that I will profit?

Plus, the money that is taken out is the profit that I should be getting, so my money is still doing fine, not like I am paying to stay here, hence there is no loss neither, that is why I am not getting out, and others may not as well, but if not enough people do not get out, that is going to be hurting the situation a lot for all of us, that is why I think we have to get out eventually, one way or another.