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I live outside the country, but I still watch the American news to see what's going on..I was just watching NBC's coverage of what's ballooned into a $600M lottery payout, and while they were interviewing "folks" (they always say "folks" -- "volk" sounds too German), it occurred to me that NBC is basically what you, or me, or anybody else who understands casinos, would call an affiliate marketer.

They go out and interview a bunch of people on welfare, ...

Running at a Loss.
It's been exactly six months since I opened the Bitcoin casino. When I started this thing, credibility was a real worry for me. I mean, I had none, and we opened it from Costa Rica, which doesn't really help. I committed to keeping a radical level of transparency, publishing all the card shoes and daily RTPs. But I thought I'd go a step further and share with you the actual balance sheet for what's happened so far.

The word "quixotic" has been running ...

It's been 3 months since I opened StrikeSapphire's doors as the first all-around Bitcoin casino and poker room. With original software, a completely untested currency and the world being how it is right now, what could go wrong?

After years of writing the software, and all the ups & downs I've shared with everyone here, it was looking like I'd be stopped at the very last step -- never getting payment processing because I had no connections and no big pile of money behind me. I ...

Well, the Bitcoin folks seem to be taking more interest in my project, and a new blog on the subject -- a good one, actually, with a lot of smart analysis -- asked me for an interview, so I just kind of unloaded my life's story on them. Why not, y'know? It's not every day I get interviewed. And next week they're interviewing Bruce Wagner, so suddenly I'm like, almost famous

Anyway, here it is, for any & all that's interested:
http://bitcoin-trader.blogspot.com/2...sh-strike.html

I don't know why they didn't warn me, or move it, or something. I've been on the board for 2 years, asking people for advice, and giving advice with everything I know about the poker situation, through a very tumultuous time in the US. In all that time, I only posted twice about my own project. Suddenly I announced it had launched, and I don't know if their corporate sponsors are just really threatened by Bitcoin or by one lone programmer writing better software than theirs or what... but it hovered ...