I wouldn't take the other side of that bet, sadly. But I think that's the only explanation for why the hot wallet would continue to be empty. Knowing that, why on earth would anyone continue to play on a site run like that? Maybe some of Bitvest's clientele could answer that for me.
I don't know if any of them will come this thread, but I'll tell you what I think.
The problems are only with large withdrawals, and the complaints are buried in a thread of more than 200 pages in the gambling section, so they have appeared from time to time and end up hidden by other comments of people who write to meet their post quota. It is only now after the problem of the delay in the payment of the signature campaigns was added to the problem that people have started to tie things up. The first time I saw an accusation about this I didn't believe him because he was a member with negative trust, but after one accusation, and another, and another... added to the delay in the payment of the sig campaigns, you end up believing what they say.
The point is that many people don't know what's going on and all they know is that these are casinos that are very old, that are advertised on the forum and that Lightlord (until recently) had a good reputation. I guess now things are changing.