Hello everyone!
First post on casinomeister to try to clear a few things out. Regarding the similarities with Guts:
Before designing Bitstars casino we did a lot of research and what really inspired us was essentially two brands - betsafe.com and the old Casumo design which used the arrow on top and, logo in the middle and zig zag pattern in the footer. We have added few elements like bottom page “most popular” which can be found in numerous other casinos like
www.videoslots.com and right side buttons like winners, help widgets that we believe are very useful and you can find them all over other casinos as well also
www.mrgreen.com.
Not only we strived to come up with the best elements for casino interface but we have also made our page responsive and device aware making the experience adapt the size of the screen of our users. We put a great effort into that and if you check the brands previously mentioned non of them has the responsive page up to this day yet.
We are also very proud that we have a great team of designers who have many years of experiences working for the biggest iGaming companies in Malta. They are guilty for many unique banners and marketing material on our page and have created more than 500 unique retina ready icons and game backgrounds for our casino. My personal favourite is our mascot - a black and white cat which is always friendly following around our casino.
While it is true that the front page turned out to have similarities to Guts, looking at our internal pages like about us, promotions, my account, deposit, withdraw reveals no resemblance.
Bitstars is coded from ground up by our IT engineers in partnership with Softswiss white label provider who have done a great job by who is using the latest technologies to bring the best.
As for other technical differences goes:
- accepting bitcoins and real currency
- wagering in bitcoins and real currency
- truly automatic instant cash outs for real money and bitcoins* (as long as the user falls into the white area of our automatic security checks)
- responsive page
- live feed of latest winners
Although the choice of a couple of design elements and colors brings similarities to Guts' frontpage, we would like to stress that we have no relation whatsoever with them. Online casinos are structurally very similar nowadays (specially white label ones), because such design is proved to work, but we are always looking forward and if we believe that it must be changed, it will in the future.
And to finalize, when it comes to user anonymity, well, that's one of the characteristics of Bitcoin. When opening a casino that accepts bitcoins, that's something that you must deal with the same way the market does. Considering it is something still in its infancy, there is a lot to be learnt with bitcoin handling, but we do believe that being on the forefront will give us advantage in the future to solve any issues that may arise. And it is important to observe that we do request KYC for bitcoin players that cash out 6 or more bitcoins in total. However, note that KYC verification may occur at an earlier or additionally at a later stage for security reasons.
Our best,
Bitstars.net Team