they get paid $5 to post on Bitcointalk
Any reason why you say that the Freebitco players get paid $5 to post on Bitcointalk? This is the first time I hear it.
Quick math:
I checked the "BITCOINS WON BY USERS" counter on their website. It increases by about 1 Bitcoin every 40 seconds. That's about 15 Bitcoin per hour. 360 per day. At 5% house edge, the house earns about 18 Bitcoin per day. That's $1.25 million. Could that be anywhere near the truth?
Their counter must be fake. If it was 2014, I would believe that users win 1 Bitcoin every hour because the price was very low but there is no way users win 1 Bitcoin every hour. Look at their registered users counter. It goes up with a regular speed, doesn't matter when you visit the website, the speed of users registering on Freebitco is the same, I haven't seen a little delay in a number of registered users. To be fair, I never trust any live statistics that shows the number of registering users in live with some other live statistics.
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