How's your gambling experience right now?

[Reid]

It cannot be avoided, this will happen eventually and it's now. I think all we can do is be wise about it. Use other currencies instead like USDT or XRP if it's available. Low fees and fast transactions, we are now limited at using altcoins instead and let this high bitcoin transaction fees calm down.
But if forced, it will be a good idea to deposit large amount to evade going back and forth which is probably more expensive. There's no other solution yet than those two, in my opinion.

[molsewid]

Best to wait a bit until things calm down and fees drop. Or gamble with an altcoin. You do not have to use Bitcoin everytime just to gamble, you know? And personally, losing altcoins does not sting as much as when you gamble and lose Bitcoin, for some reason 

A middle-way solution would be to use a Bitcoin pegged altcoin, and preferably, when such casinos come out, gamble using those Bitcoin pegged altcoins without having to send them to any third party wallet.

It should be possible already with BEP20, ERC20 and etc. pegged Bitcoin and self custodial wallets. But I have no idea if there is any legitimate and trusted casino offering such services.

Yes, few hrs ago I think binance freeze the withdrawal of bitcoin due to the fees. When I gamble I rather choose altcoins rather than using bitcoin itself, I cannot take the thought that what if my betting amount in bitcoin when being converted is higher than it was before, I have that kind of thought that's why I gamble using usdt or other xrp or other altcoins that are available in the website.

[Jawhead999]

It should be possible already with BEP20, ERC20 and etc. pegged Bitcoin and self custodial wallets. But I have no idea if there is any legitimate and trusted casino offering such services.

There's no difference if you gamble with ERC-20 tokens since the fees are higher compared to Bitcoin network, only BEP-20 tokens are make sense. Yeah there's an altcoins pegged with Bitcoin e.g. Wrapped Bitcoin. AFAIK the most trusted and popular casino which offer to gamble by connecting your wallet are owl.games, but their casino aren't accessible now, they said they were in development and will comeback when it's done.

[348Judah]

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee?

People will definitely gambles regardless of the high transaction fee just that it might also have little impact on those who were unable to achieve such to affordability, those gambling using high amount for stake sees nothing bad in doing that, all they were after us the satisfaction in gambling which they will eventually get at the end, they don't mind winning or loosing as well unlike those that have this as a mandate for them to win for their sustainability.

I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

I will say it helps to an extent in this regards for those that already have funds on their casino wallet but i must confess that they would have developed a kind of trust in their casino to have make such deposit because not all casinos can be trusted, many gamblers only put in what they can afford to loose in their casino wallet, know also that there's no amount of deposit you already made to your wallet it will definitely finished and you will need more funds to gamble with time.

[Zilon]

The lucky fellows are those who have Bitcoin left in the wallets before this price surge. The mempool lately is messed up with high tx fee and i don't know how long it will take to fix this up. I think the number of withdrawals has increased and the mempool is crowded which in-turn has resulted to such outrageous fees.

[YOSHIE]

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee? I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

Isn't it that currently most online crypto casinos offer various types of crypto that can be used as transaction methods, such as LTC, Doge, and so on at a lower cost.

I think we can have different experiences for online gambling, many online casinos currently don't only use Bitcoin, there are dozens of types of crypto that can offset deposit and withdrawal fees for use by casino users, that's the advantage of playing at a crypto casino.

My experience is certainly there, if you talk about transactions, fees, and so on, I still bet even though Bitcoin fees are expensive, of course, as I mentioned above, methods and other types of crypto a wise choice to do, if Bitcoin costs are high, it's not an obstacle for me to bet.

[piebeyb]

this not only affects bitcoin gamblers but affects casino campaign signature participants on this forum who pay BTC , I think this will be a problem in bitcoin transactions also on their payments or withdrawing money from the casino, especially if the bitcoin price is in May had such a drastic drop in price that it was hard to hold hot coals in hand, lol

I think why is there a need for an exchange within the casino so that users can look for other alternatives for withdrawal if bitcoin is experiencing a busy network like this, this function actually used to be widely used but no longer, if only this feature was used again it would help the process of withdrawing to other blockchain networks that are more cheap and not busy. 

[Davidvictorson]

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee? I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

I am taking a break off gambling right now. Two days ago I tried to fund my casino account from my electrum wallet and the transaction fee wasn't funny at all. It was triple of what I was charged a month ago and it took almost forever to get confirmed. And even when it got to my casino wallet, I wasn't in the mood to play any game. My two options right now are one, to take a break or two, use the alternative options that is Ethereum or USDT. I may go for the later but I am not sure yet.

[sokani]

The lucky fellows are those who have Bitcoin left in the wallets before this price surge. The mempool lately is messed up with high tx fee and i don't know how long it will take to fix this up. I think the number of withdrawals has increased and the mempool is crowded which in-turn has resulted to such outrageous fees.

I totally agree with you. Gamblers that have some Bitcoin in their gambling accounts have nothing to worry about as they can easily place their bets on their preferred games without having to through the high transaction deposit fees. The only problem they might encounter is delay of withdrawal if they want to withdraw their winnings. But I would rather not initiate a withdrawal until the mempool is clear off and everything is back to normal.

[virasisog]

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee? I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

I am taking a break off gambling right now. Two days ago I tried to fund my casino account from my electrum wallet and the transaction fee wasn't funny at all. It was triple of what I was charged a month ago and it took almost forever to get confirmed. And even when it got to my casino wallet, I wasn't in the mood to play any game. My two options right now are one, to take a break or two, use the alternative options that is Ethereum or USDT. I may go for the later but I am not sure yet.

I have been placing small bets throughout the previous few days, but I haven't done any withdrawal transactions. However, last week when I checked the fees, I also saw that the fees had increased in price.
To lessen our financial load, we should try to convert or even switch to other networks like BNB and USDT. High fees are already a component of the gambling challenge, therefore we have to cope with them. If we are making numerous withdrawals, it would be smarter to make them all at once to reduce the amount of transaction costs we must pay. I concur that it could be wise to take a break for a bit if the dilemma persists.

[Fivestar4everMVP]

Well, for those who have some bitcoin left in an exchange, I believe they won't feel the impact of the high transaction fee since they can easily convert their bitcoin to other coins or tokens on some other networks with low transaction fees, example is bsc, trc or solana, I believe the high cost of transaction on the bitcoin chain didn't affect other alternate chains.

For me, haven't gambled for some time now, the high cost of transactions isn't the excuse though, just haven't been lucky for a while, so I decide to take a little break.

[uneng]

One or few days away from gambling won't kill anyone. Better to just wait the fees to return to its normal average price again. There is a lot of speculation going on Bitcoin's blockchain through NFTs and worthless crap tokens, but once it's over the fees will come back to the normal again.

By there you can convert some fiat to altcoins from alternative blockchains to deposit at casinos paying lower fees. But just in case you are really decided to gamble for next days, while Bitcoin's transactions are extremely expensive.

[Ebede]

I think this situation will become normal within few days when the transactions rate will be low and transaction fees will automatically come down but yes at this time it's hard to deposit btc.The problem is for small gamblers who can't afford this fees with small deposit but yes they can shift to other coins because playing through them is fine to save fees and most of them are also confirmed fast.But hope fees come down and we deposit btc to casino for gambling.

The problem is that nobody knows when a transaction fee will be down, and majority of the gambling websites don't give option of withdrawal except what you choose to deposit with, that means if transaction fees continue to going up that means that many people will quit from gambling, but everyone prayer is for the transaction fee to drop

[Mahanton]

I think this situation will become normal within few days when the transactions rate will be low and transaction fees will automatically come down but yes at this time it's hard to deposit btc.The problem is for small gamblers who can't afford this fees with small deposit but yes they can shift to other coins because playing through them is fine to save fees and most of them are also confirmed fast.But hope fees come down and we deposit btc to casino for gambling.

The problem is that nobody knows when a transaction fee will be down, and majority of the gambling websites don't give option of withdrawal except what you choose to deposit with, that means if transaction fees continue to going up that means that many people will quit from gambling, but everyone prayer is for the transaction fee to drop

No one really knows and everything would really be depending on those miners on how fast they would be confirming on each block and of course it would be understandable that
they would be prioritizing into those who had paid up higher and basing up on mempool.space(as of this writing)

No Priority
86 sat/vB
$3.36

Low Priority
407 sat/vB
$15.89

Medium Priority
449 sat/vB
$17.53

High Priority
501 sat/vB
$19.56

I couldnt really afford on paying up those fees when i do gamble specially when im not really that a whale or does have tons of money.,
I do usually spend up $30 when it comes gambling and paying up that huge fee would really just that make a huge cut or slice on my capital.

[bitbollo]

I'm also on break.
"ith these fees it is really difficult to be able to make deposits (for example I like to bet live but at the same time keep the coins in my wallet).
will this be the right time for the major crypto bookmakers and casinos to decide to use LN in order to manage both withdrawals and deposits??

[Cookdata]

The transaction fee on Bitcoin is increasing day by day. It cost now 14$ for a low-priority transaction to 17$ for high priority transaction. I was planning to make a deposit today on my casino account until I notice the high fee on my electrum sent tab. The fee is almost 5% of my total bankroll that I was supposed to deposit. I decided to rest for now since I will be down immediately by 5% for a transaction that I don't know when will gonna be confirmed.

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee? I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

It is so sad that the mempool is full every hour with large numbers of uncomfirmed transactions when halving is not here yet and this is getting out of hand, the miners are not even giving any priority to lesser fees with low priority or maybe I'm part of the people who don't get lucky yet to get my transactions to verify, and what I don't understand with the mempool this time around is that, in the night and weekends, they are usually lower but yesterday been Sunday was different, the fees were higher and the night was even worse, this made me think these BRC20 tokens are nonsense spams and ddos attack on the bitcoin network.

There is always an alternative, I still used Tron with USDT deposit, they are also slightly higher now since people are using them now as an alternative since the Bitcoin network becomes congested but they are manageable compared to Bitcoin.

[LDL]

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee? I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

I usually do not suffer from this high fee problem because I usually do not withdraw full dollars from my casino and gambling site wallet and I withdraw dollars from my casino and gambling site wallet every week or every 15 days. One of my important things is that when I bet, I don't bet full dollars. If I bet with full dollars and lose the bet then all my dollars will be lost and my casino and gambling site wallet dollars will be empty. So I bet partially when I bet.
Also the gas fees are huge now so for now I will refrain from withdrawing dollars from my wallet and when the transaction fees are much lower I will withdraw bitcoins from the wallet.

[madnessteat]

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Yes, a lot of people are angry about such high commissions. I can't afford to send money from one of my wallets to another for a few days already. Not to mention gambling. Ethereum network as well as Bitcoin network is experiencing congestion and I don't want to pay such high commissions. I hope in few days commissions will come back to normal and we will all be happy again, or we all will have to move to cheaper networks like Solana.

[ChiBitCTy]

The transaction fee on Bitcoin is increasing day by day. It cost now 14$ for a low-priority transaction to 17$ for high priority transaction. I was planning to make a deposit today on my casino account until I notice the high fee on my electrum sent tab. The fee is almost 5% of my total bankroll that I was supposed to deposit. I decided to rest for now since I will be down immediately by 5% for a transaction that I don't know when will gonna be confirmed.

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee? I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

This is a good question. I was going to send some more bitcoin to my gambling account, but the fact that the pool is so full and transactions are so expensive right now, I am stuck with what I've already got loaded in my account. 

Sure I could send with a higher fee and get it to my wallet in time for the Lakers Golden State game tonight, but I never bet enough to make that worth it's while.  So...I shall send with a low fee here sometime today with no rush, getting myself ready for the upcoming late week/weekend.

[ralle14]

Is anyone still playing today with this high fee? I think those gamblers that leave funds in the casino are very happy that they didn't need to experience this fee drama.

With the Bitcoin fees continuing to rise, the only gamblers I see that can take those hits would be the high rollers. The alternative would be to take advantage of crypto casinos that have instant deposits but it's better to hold off any plans to deposit since a lot of transactions that used low fees are getting rejected. We can only hope that it doesn't last long because if we see the same fees for more than a few weeks then casinos might have to bump their fees as well.