It seems to me the only important question is whether bitdice is still solvent.
I expect they publish a weekly list of investor balances, and publish their cold wallet address, so it shouldn't be too hard to check.
If they don't do this, investors should demand that they do. Nobody wants to invest in an insolvent dice site.
I really don't think that's the only important question. What if more was withdrawn that the operator owned?
Then the site would be insolvent, and it would show up when you check the cold wallet balance. I don't understand what you're concerned about if it isn't that Alex maybe lost more than he owns, and so the site is now insolvent.
He makes claims that he can easily make that amount back but I am not seeing any evidence to suggest that's true other than his word.
I thought he said he doesn't need to make it back because he can already afford to cover the loss. We can tell that by checking the site's solvency.
The owner losing a huge % of his own money isn't really something that should be looked over is all I'm saying. Maybe others are okay with it though?
He lost a bunch of money. It sucks. It also took him at least 3 attempts to fix the dealer bug in blackjack. That sucks too. What should we do? Crucify him?
I don't think anyone's making a secret of the fact that he lost a bunch of coins through his own error, or that other bugs get into the live site. It's up to each investor to decide how much they feel comfortable leaving on the site, as it is with every other site.