Hi,
I was wondering why some games or dice sites have more success than others.
What is needed to have success in the Crypto gambling space?
I suspect the most important factor is trust. People will happily bet thousands of dollars on a pretty much anything as long as they can trust it's fair and if they win they'll get paid.
Do you think gambling is here to stay or it can die in some years?
People have been gambling for thousands of years, I really don't see that changing.
What do you look when gambling BTC? Is it the bankroll of the site, when it was launched?
Somewhere that is provably fair (I'm a paranoid guy, I like to verify the results myself) and someone where I know I won't get screwed.
Also, what is your favorite Bitcoin game or site to gamble at?
I run my own casino, and have more variance in my life than I would like -- so I haven't gambled in quite a while now. But if I were to gamble right now, I'd probably do so on PrimeDice or BitDice.me. There's nothing particularly special about those sites, but they've been around a while and processed a lot of bets/players/wins and I've never heard any (legitimate) grumblings. There's a lot of other trustworthy sites out there too, but I haven't really played enough (or at all) to make an informed decision. In the end, I don't care that much about the site as long as they fill the basic requirements.
Do you prefer in-chain games where you don't need to deposit or games where you deposit funds and play?
I don't like on-chain games, and they don't seem to be very popular. I don't see that changing, unless possibly the event of the lightning network. But even that's not technically on-chain. They're expensive (paying 2x transaction fees each round) and offer a horrible UX. I would personally never use an on-chain game, unless I was betting a very large amount of money (to make the fees trivial) and offered very significant advantages (preferably: it being totally trustless, which I've figured out is possible to do in bitcoin's scripting language) or perhaps like luckyb.it where if they robbed me, I would have a public fraud-proof. That's pretty cool too.