I doubt they will turn out to be scammers. With the recent spike in on-chain fees, they are trying to take advantage to make a little profit. They sound legit; not vouching for them LOL. I will be using them shortly and won't forget to share a review here so that other users can get help.

Are you kidding me? That's too low to offer a $5 bonus for $20k wagering LOL. There are a lot of other casinos that offer far better promo AFAIK; although it's not something for me. I hardly have wagered $20k in a month.

There was no bonus drop from Stake team after the 25th December of previous year Christmas celebration. The situation will be same this time. However, they have created a new telegram channel for the high rollers, where they will post higher bonus with pretty big weekly wager requirement. On the 27th December, they have made a bonus drop of $50 with $200k wagering requirement within last 7 days.

Yep, Eddie had said that in one of his weekly stream a long time ago.

The $10M Christmas Race is almost over! 🏎



Wager from now until the New Year on either our Casino or our Sportsbook to get yourself a place on the leaderboard! 🏁

https://stake.com/promotions/promotion/10m-christmas-race

I am tend to lean more on the theory Stake and it's administration is not willing to implement a service for exchanging coins because of the legal implications it could mean for the platform, they are already one of the biggest casinos within the ecosystem of cryptocurrencies, so they really do not need to add such feature to catch more attention from gamblers.
One must keep in mind that because we are taking about a service which have a high volume of deposits and withdraws, international authorities have kept an eye on Stake because it would serve as a way to launder money, thrus the AML measure they keep in place to comply with law, if Stake started to function as an exchange as well, it would mean regulators closing in even more on the activities carry out by users and they could even take advantage of the opportunity to pressure Stake to ask for me KYC information for their gamblers, even to the point of asking by KYC during registration (the same way it is done on exchanges), that would turn some gamblers away who wish to deposit and play as soon as they create their account.

Regardless of that the their strategy in the long term is, I believe Stake does good by staying away from the exchange market, at least for now.

Why exchange facilities need on gambling site? A gambling site needs large enough servers to store various games and user data and have to update them constantly, so if they want to have exchange facilities as well, their site may be down at times and on the other hand they will need a license.  So gambling sites avoid it.  And I personally don't think a gambling site should have exchange facilities.  Although if it was we could avoid withdrawal fees by selecting other coins while withdrawing.

I just want to be one of the first people to wish all of you (my Stake family) a Happy New Year... here is hoping that you will win a lot of money and also for the Stake staff to be prosperous in 2024.

Let's hope the North Korean hackers will give you a break and that you have to deal with a lot less drama in 2024.    I also hope that Stake will sign less contracts with huge celebrities and Sport teams and just invest in a good gambling experience for their existing members.

Thank you for a great 2023!

Do you think Stake surpassed 3 billion USD Gross Gaming Revenue in 2023?

Stake claims in 2022 it was 2,6 billion USD.

Betting sites with exchange features seem interesting, because when tired of a particular coin can switch to gambling another coin, besides it can also be a solution when making coin withdrawals to be cheaper and faster.
The exchange is not a general exchange like Binance, Gate and Kucoin. Unless it's just a feature for swapping a particular token/coin to another, it may be added with some specific requirements to use this feature. So that the exchange feature on the betting site is different from the exchanges in general.

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OK good news here, we start the new year at Stake with pre monthly bonus, feel free to claim it with above link.
Dont forget to not lose it quick, I think I'll keep it first and play it in the next few days because usually I lost it all if I play it directly after I claim it.
Thanks Stake, I thought there will be no bonus earlier this new year since you gave us 2 monthly bonus and 1 post monthly bonus in December.
Happy New Year to all Stake teams and all Stake players, wish the new year give us a new better luck