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Right folks,
As i said in the last couple of videos, i am going to write a post detailing what, in my opinion, are the good, the bad and the ugly points of my Crypto journey so far.
So, from the very beginning then, as someone who has never dabbled in anything Crypto before, the absolute ballache of the set up. Hated every minute of it, had to find a “Crypto wallet” to use and get used to to start off with, this turned out for me to be a place called Crypto.com – recommended to me by a couple of people who have used it themselves. Fairly straightforward to download but seemingly only a n app on your phone which made it slightly more difficult to send money from the wallet to the casino as i always had to do that on my phone. After a number of deposits and withdrawals this place wanted to know shit, they wanted proof of bank statements, they wanted to know how much i would be sending in and out (how the fuck would i know that with it all being gambling based…. could literally be anything!) Once i had added BC to the wallet and stored them it became easier but they stopped me depositing or receiving funds for a 10 day period while they looked at all the shit they made me send them.
Very recently they complicated things further by introducing some weird travel details thing where i had to know what type of wallet i was sending to and in which country that wallet was based, that was needed for both deposits and withdrawals, with withdrawals being held by crypto.com until i realised i had a notification and needed to act upon it.
The fees, jesus christ, the fees. I could withdraw my money from the casino to the wallet for no fee, that bit was fine. If i was depositing from the wallet to the casino though, a £4,200 deposit would arrive as fractionally over £4,000 so almost a £200 charge – somewhere in the region of 4.5% here is a pic of a few….
The most annoying and most expensive fee by far though, was the conversion of any withdrawal from the USDT coin i was using, in to GBP held in a “Fiat” wallet which came out around 8% – when i had those huge wins on MT4 – the fees to get that money finally in to my bank were pretty much £20,000 (Twenty Thousand Pounds) just in case anyone thinks i mistyped that figure! Yes i understand that i could have used a cheaper coin or something but i stuck with USDT as it is tethered to the US Dollar itself and represented the most stable coin to me, i didn’t want to be gambling before i started gambling if you know what i mean!
The next part of the set up was to find and download, pay for and install, a VPN. i went with Nord, it was one i had heard of and again it was fairly straightforward. I didn’t take up any of the offers, it cost me £12.49 i think per month in the end and did the job most of the time. I say most of the time because that leads me on to another annoying point…. every now and then, a country i had selected would just stop working, for example, i started with Ireland, soon enough the casino started telling me i was trying to access from a restricted country. I swapped to Croatia. That worked for a similar amount of time and then again, stopped working. Next up for me was Moldova and with that one, only certain IP’s had problems so i was forever having to refresh it to find a different one that worked and then finally i moved on to Georgia where currently there hasn’t been a problem but i am sure there soon will be! All a load of faff if you ask me. This is what my VPN looked like….
Another bad point for me is simply the terrible reputation any place Crypto seems to have with a select number of individuals. What people didn’t seem to be able to grasp was my sudden change in fortune in regards to achieving max wins on some games and achievements on games like Dead or Alive 2 (Wildline) that i’d tried to achieve for years but hang on a minute, is there any common sense in the world anymore? What could possibly be a reason for me actually managing some decent wins? Let’s take Mental as an example….. in the years that i have played this game in a normal way, i have NEVER once landed the super bonus from the start, that being the 3 scatters plus the 2 spiders, i have literally NEVER had it. I managed ONE time to upgrade to it inside a normal bonus when they both landed for me, that was my 1 and only shot at a max win on the game. Now take this place, i can BUY the super bonus, as many times as i want, i played the game for hours and hours on end buying literally THOUSANDS of super bonuses….. are some of you really unable to see how there might be a significant increased chance of achieving the win?!
Same with Dead or Alive 2 – every time i have tried to get a wild line, i have had to play the base game, land the actual bonus, watch it give me fuck all and then jog on…… now i could BUY the bonus as many times as i wanted to, of course i have a massively increased chance of hitting it, always melted my brain a bit that one.
Bonus buys themselves are a bit annoying aren’t they? I mean yes, huge wins are possible, they aren’t probable but when you are buying the bonuses in the volume that i do, you have a much higher chance of achieving something crazy BUT… from experience, i’d have to say, the massive majority of them struggle to get past the purchase cost don’t they? You are definitely relying on hitting some sort of madness at some point i think.
I think the final bad point for me would be the almost constant uncertainty – by that, i mean how in the back of your mind you are always thinking “i wonder if that balance will be there tomorrow” because its a weird one, Crypto has never been the most certain thing in the world has it, i’m not sure if that sort of thing bothered anyone else but whenever the site was down for maintenance or it didn’t let me log in for 15/20 minutes etc i always thought hmmmm, wonder if i will see that again, it just had to be the thing i have always said i guess, if you are gambling, then you deposit what you can afford to lose and then if its gone its gone, i just had to come to peace with that.
Right then, what were the positive points?
The speed of a session for me was a major plus, it was really nice to have everything back that we used to have, Turbo Spins, Autoplay, Bonus Buys – it was like rewinding a few years and videos were no longer taking me 6/7/8 hours, they were done, from a recording the content point of view, usually within two hours which i really enjoyed. Because of this i was able to make a lot more of them but that old adage of you can’t please everyone would pop up every now and then ha.
Bonuses – The bonus set up at this place was pretty impressive, so many things happening, Daily Recharge, Weekly Cashback, Monthly Cashback, random redemption codes from the host for achievements, Level up bonus for the VIP levels, wagering bonuses, you name it, there just always seemed to be something to claim, no matter how big or small, it all added up….. I am just going to post this part and then continue, just in case it decides to be a dick and doesn’t post!
66Right, it posted fine…. here is a picture of my Bonus Dashboard –
As you can see, it was quite substantial and as i always said, i considered it to contribute to the deposit fees i was experiencing…. obviously it didn’t go anywhere near the wallet conversion fees back to GBP though!
It doesn’t seem like that many positives really does it but the whole speed thing and the games and having all the functions back pretty much covers a lot, i am sure i will think of other things but for now, i will leave it there, if you want to ask anything let me know and i will answer when i am about if i can do.
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