Quote from: jjc326 on July 15, 2014, 03:16:03 AM

Jeremy what are the approximate limits here? I'm thinking of getting back into sports betting at BTC site.

Nitrogen it's great how you showed there were some contest winners but even better would be if some of them popped on here to say they had won. Otherwise all winners could just be nitrogen aliases. (See Anonibet accusations)

Hey, Jeremy. I can attest that I am Nitrogen user 33159. I managed to make my way onto the leaderboard despite not hearing about the contest until the middle of the tournament. In case you are concerned that I am a shill for Nitrogen, take a look back at some of my prior posts. I was sufficiently skeptical just a couple of weeks ago that I was asking about trying to set up a third-party hedge system to protect against the possibility of a fly-by-night sportsbook. If you go further back in my posts to December/January, you'll see that my skepticism has its roots in the Bitcoinsports debacle, which I had the displeasure of participating in.

In the interest of complete transparency, I should point out that Nitrogen has not yet paid out the 1.53 BTC contest winnings. This is exactly as stated in the contest terms, which say that they will pay out on July 26. Since they paid out my > 5 BTC in winnings yesterday and let me withdraw it within minutes, I have very little fear at this point that they will be moving to Bermuda on 7/25. Nevertheless, I'll come back here and let everyone know when they pay out.

As for the other contest winners, I think that the individual bet slips linked on their blog are pretty convincing. The only other winner with whom I have personally corresponded is member # 200. I can say with great confidence that he is also not a Nitrogen insider. Our initial chat conversation centered around a bad line that we had both noticed. Once we burst each other's hopes that each of us was the only one who had noticed this "golden" opportunity, we brought it to the attention of Nitrogen support. They generously offered him an unsolicited tip for this, by the way, as they did to me in a similar circumstance a few days later.

In summary, I fully appreciate your skepticism about BTC sportsbooks in general, about NitrogenSports in particular, and about this looks-too-good-to-be-true World Cup contest. However, my personal experience with them has been excellent to date, and I have the Bitcoins to prove it! They are subject to occasional DDOS attacks, but I consider this part of the territory. I'm sure they'll reduce the impact of these over time.

P.S. I was robbed of 2.5 BTC on my bet that Thomas Mueller would win the Golden Ball, but the corrupt, greedy, secretive organization responsible for that theft was FIFA, not NitrogenSports!

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