What is the essence of spending huge money to relaunch 1xbit when no body cares or gives a damn about them? they just just focus on building 1xbet even to a greater height if they are sure not to carry out the same scam operations on there, or maybe they can just start all over by building a new casino.
It's because they have enough resources to withstand any long-term losses incurred by 1xbit and also because of the reason @Zoomic mentioned. 1xbet is already extremely popular which is why they don't need to devote extra resources towards it.
Linking them with 1xbet, I am not so sure about it. But then 1xbet might be their genuine domain while 1xbit their scam domain.
They are definitely connected to 1xbit since multiple people proved it already within this forum.
Both casinos are definitely connected, actually, I even recall a singular case when a member of the 1xbit campaign seemly was tasked to whitewash the accusations of them being connected and tried to edit the Wikipedia page of 1xbet, in order to make it appear in a possible light in the eyes of anyone reading the article there. Fortunately, some people realized this and included it among the red tags of the user, as a comment.
One must wonder who far one is willing to go to edit wiki pages for a shady service like that.