Weaver is sketchy and will never acknowledge the real problems at BTConTilt.
They dont need his services because the site has crashed and ALREADY CRUMBLED you genius.
Also, the price of BTC crashed because the community did nothing to support it, and that just turns all new users away from getting into BTC.
BTConTilt really gets under my skin that they are such failures.... How could they fail so miserably. Oh, the days when they were gaining full tables and new players were showing up by the day, but the site began to crash day after day for weeks, so yea, thats that story Weaver....
You guys fucking suck at hosting an online poker site, duh
I don't think you have any idea how hard it is to host a poker site. It's not my job to say nice things about the competition, but BTCOnTilt invested a large amount of cash in upgrading their software. They suffered under DOS attacks and all kinds of shit for a long time and I'm sure they took a beating. They could have folded like a lot of others, but they didn't. They anticipate (rightfully, I think) that the day isn't far off when the US poker market runs out of their last few alternatives like Paylinq and other shady crap, and figures out how to buy Bitcoins. They're well positioned for that. They came under attack right when Seals launched, and took a beating. I didn't too much care for the way Weaver did business, but having talked with the execs over there I know they're serious, that they've got a tough road ahead of them, and they're doing their best by their players. I never heard of them delaying a payout or screwing over a player. I don't particularly envy them, because poker is one of the most difficult business models to run successfully
even under good conditions where the currency doesn't collapse by 90% in a month. To say they had something to do with that is stupid. They suffered from it along with everyone else, but they're still running. So are we. Poker requires constant outflow in freerolls, and huge amounts of time and money to run something that brings in a very low margin. If this proves one thing, it's that BTCOnTilt has the financing behind it to hold players funds safely, which is more than FullTilt could say.
Furthermore, blaming them or another merchant, or the community at large, for the fall of the Bitcoin price is just crazy. The community's job isn't to prop up the price, it's to trade it out to its real value. It was overpriced and underserviced. Now b.o.t. is trying to do a good job of putting their service back together and drawing in attention from outside players that the currency needs, and you're attacking them just 'cause you're pissed the market went down? Or what?
Maybe the poker sites don't have enough traffic 'cause you're not going out and telling people to play in Bitcoins. A couple thousand poker players trading in and out right now would probably double the daily MtGox volume.
