I also hope that your theory remains a theory and never becomes a fact because there are already many allegations going on in their name. Many people are directly calling them scammers and making such allegations that they are selling fraudulent services.
Now my point is that they should use it if they have a few thousand BTC stashed in their cold wallet and ensure that users withdraw at the right time.
Otherwise, there is no benefit from all those thousands of bitcoins because scammers also hold thousands of bitcoins in their cold wallets.
Have you seen them defending themself or say a word about what is going on? I have tagged their accounts, and some other DT members did as well, but we haven't heard anything from them, and they did not show any sign of coming back and solving the issues. People are not calling them scammers without any reason. If they are not scammers, then they should solve all the issues and answer all these allegations.
You are right; scammers may have hundreds of bitcoins in their wallets, which they made by scamming people. If they want to prove themself as a legit service, they should solve all the issues and pay their users on time.
This is one of the reason why negative thoughts about them keep spreading since they are not answering and providing assurance that their casino is fine. That's why lots of people think about many negative things happen to them.
I don't know why there are still people playing here but maybe they should be more careful since they are acting so weird nowadays. Don't know if we can still see the old reputable freebitco.in or they would just totally collapsed and can't recover. To bad for them to let their community go since they already built a solid community but they waste it and just let their loyal clients hanging around.
This is exactly the very same thought I've had in mind and even commented here ever since the issue with this casino began, it's still very painful to me seeing the kind or type of reputation the team behind freebitco managed to build over the years, and just in a twinkle of an eye, they have lost it due to pure negligence and or carelessness, seems to me that the reputation meant absolutely nothing to them, else, even if they really needed to shut this casino down to run after other goals, a good idea would have new for them to sell the casino to some one from this forum who already understands how things work.
But like I said, it seems to me that the reputation they built and the respect and trust they earned over the years possibly meant nothing to them, and personally, I think it's high time we actually stop our morning here and take things as they are or appear, one thing is, even if the team will come back to apologize and promise to fix things up, it will take a long time before they gain the communitie's trust like before again.