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Topic
Board Gambling
Re: SatoshiDICE.com - The World's Most Popular Bitcoin Game
by
tarantoga
on 26/11/2016, 02:01:24 UTC
And any idea why daily prices on satoshidice are no more working from Oct 18? https://www.satoshidice.com/leader-boards/
That looks like they are running out of money, any ideas if satoshidice is a safe place for high stakes?

Not sure but maybe they lost a lot during the recent DDoS attack.
SatoshiDice is hosted with an expensive Swiss ISP.
Fending off even just 1 Gbit/s costs 400 USD / month ... O.o
Many DDoS attacks are magnitudes larger than that. The record is at over 1 Tbit/s.
https://solarcom.ch/en/ddos_protection

Why they choose this expensive host, I don't know. Maybe legal reasons because CH is not part of the EU.