Isn't 0.0006 similar in size as a Bitcoin network fee? Much lower than that is nearly dust that you can't even send in a Bitcoin transaction. Anyways it's just supposed to be a minimal fee to help us keep things working, pay for server costs.

Imagine for a second that we did not charge any fee and anyone could just put offers onto our site. What would happen? We would get tons of offers from people who are not serious about following through on their offer. Kind of like spam, it would make real offers difficult to tell apart from fake ones. So by requiring this fee, both parties are interested in finishing the bet and are more likely to follow through.

The above is an interesting side effect of us not wanting to use any kind of "hot wallet". To us the idea of a hot wallet is insecure and always seem to be the single point of failure in many Bitcoin security failures of the past. Rather than repeat this we decided to try to do everything directly on the blockchain. In financial terms Gamblor acts as an escrow service between two betters. An escrow service that ensures the winnings go to the correct party.

However, during the Beta test, where we are making sure everything works properly, we'll give you some credits so you do not have to pay this small fee, you can get them in our IRC channel, see above for that. To use them, at the bottom of the "Bet" or "Offer" forms on our website, change the "Bitcoin" payment to "Credit" and you can spend the free credits on there.

We may in future support some altcoins (e.g. Dogecoin). On those coins, since they aren't worth as much, the transactions are cheaper and our fees will also be cheaper. You can help us choose which altcoin to support on here http://gamblor.bid/altcoin-poll