in the U.S would a bitcoin dice site need a gambling license?
Not really unless a specific state had a law pertaining to just that. Several online games that are considered as having gambling events will not even allow users from specific states to participate due to Certain state regulations. If the coins aren't being transferred into usd currency as payout or payment at the gambling site (bitcoin payout and payment only site) then there are no state bitcoin gambling laws that i could find. There are several online sites you can go to look up the laws governing online gambling on a state to state basis...it all starts at a search engine
