I sent them a PM the next day and they refused to refund the bet.

Alright! Nice to see the Cardinals winning a couple!

Hahhahah I like the poll question

I wouldnt worry about peeps place. Anyone that spends money at these books knows better than to listen to one guys personal preference. I wouldn't be surprised if he was being paid to endorse anonibet

That being said.

Directbet is legit. Only bitcoin sportsbook I have see that offers live lines with the variety of sports

Super awesome book. Will continue to support. If you make the site more pleasing to the eye, I'm sure you would get even more customers!

Anyway, keep being awesome!

E.

Uhhhhh I stroke them? Yea I'm a paid endorser for sure bro.

I posted one review in RyanK thread about them. Yup all over them. LOL relax dude. You work for peeps place?

So either you're following me or you're part of peeps place or anonibet. Lol. No one pays me for shit. I just bet a lot of places. Stop being creepy bro

We've released a software update with a fix to this extremely rare bug.

Once again we apology for the inconvenience this has caused.

Please do create a support ticket on our website every time you feel your bet has not been processed properly and we will investigate it.

We at DirectBet sympathies with those of you who apparently lost their deposits and investments with the disappearance of BitcoinLiveBets.com

To date, there hasn't been a single cryptocurrency Sportsbook that we are aware of, which ceased operation gracefully and honored all withdrawal requests.

All the Bitcoin Sportsbooks that were closed in the past, with no exceptions, ran away with users deposits, and every time that happened, it hampered the reputation of the Bitcoin sports betting industry as a whole. (Note : Bitbook did pay out its users for several days after closing, but not all of them).

The purpose of this post is not to spread salt on the wounds of those affected but rather to raise the point that in today's new virtual currency era, there is absolutely no need for a Sportsbook to take deposits and hold your coins while they are not being wagered.

The "My Account" -> "Deposit" type of wagering belongs to the 90s.

Today, you can bet with your coins and keep them safe in your wallet under your control while they are not in a wager.

No longer do you need to park your valuable coins on 3rd party websites and hope that they will be there when you need them.

I agree with Koshgel Bitbook was the best run book around by FAR

Yes, I did mention in my post that Bitbook paid out its users for several days after closing.

However, they too did not pay out everyone because they only allowed a short window of a few days to get paid.

If you search the archive of Bitcointalk you will find reports of users that were not paid, simply because they did not visit the Bitbook thread during the few days closure period and were not aware of it.

If you use the official Bitcoin client, your bet transfers will deliver within a second or two.

Unofficial wallets might sometimes have delays but this is something that they will solve over time and there is an alternative for the time being. Simply install Bitcoin Core and treat your wallet there as "Your Account" in books that are not taking deposits.

Note that the traditional deposit books force a delay anyhow when betting in-play, typically of 5-7 seconds, in order not to give an unfair advantage to those who are betting while physically presenting in the game.

This 5-7 seconds forced delay by traditional deposit books is equivalent to the time it may take for non deposit books to receive and process bet transfers and therefore there is no difference even with time sensitive bets.

In today's new virtual currency era, we believe that there is absolutely no need for a Sportsbook to take deposits and hold your coins while they are not being wagered.


When Bit365 went down the majority of the people who suffered losses were the investors, not the players, because they did not take deposits from players. The few users who got hit were those who kept on betting there while ignoring the slow pay warning signs. Later some kept on betting even when they did not get paid and as a result had accumulated multiple unpaid winning bets.

By the way, if you are curious why Bit365 went bankrupt, here is my educated guess :

They took around 500 BTC in investments and cashed some or all of it out while the Bitcoin value was around $100, then when the Bitcoin value went up to around $1000 many investors wanted to cash out but at that point Bit365 did not have sufficient cash to buy back the Bitcoins.