Tenth of a cent isnt much of a burden to carry. They are throwing away business currently as there are no bets listed besides the price guesses for the month which I presume is just automatic.
AFAIK, nothing is automated at Freebitco. Someone add the crypto and other betting markets manually. Then it stop taking the bets when the timer ends. And the winnings are also credited manually. Freebitco team is making posts about their daily jackpot on their twitter account on a regular basis. Some forum members previously said that those posts are also made by bots. I have also seen people to complain about not receiving the daily jackpot prize. A dead platform is running based on bots and automated things without paying the users.