I have noticed several times lightlord's unresponsive and payment delay. All time there is issue I think the issue arises when the site make loss and cant afford the payment of hunters and/or gamblers. The issue of hotwallet might be true but it is difficult to trust as this type of staying offline as well as payment delay is usual fact.
I don't know what is the status of lightlord nowadays sometimes he is online but no update from him I think he is not feeling well until now.
I am one of those members in bitvest last August and the delay of payment almost 2 months which is too much delay. But I am hoping that he is under-recovery now if he has an illness came back here in forum and continue what he started.
What people are saying (or at least I do) is the fact that he could be sick and the business should continue without a problem, he could be dead and it should still be going on. I mean this has been talked about before and it is still true to this day, if he is the only one who could fill the hot wallet, the day he dies would mean we all have all of our money stuck here. That is not the type of place that has only a few dollars in it, there are thousands of people gambling here meaning god knows how much money is only trusted for lightlord to stay alive. That just doesn't make sense to me at all, we should not be doing anything remotely like this. He needs to find a better way.