It shouldn’t be a surprise that the online gambling industry is full of fees.

Some you see and some you probably don’t.

The biggest one you’re probably not able to see directly if you’re gambling in a traditional online casino is the house edge. That’s the main way traditional casinos — both online and offline — make money.

This house edge can be programmed into the not-so-random number generator powering the online casino’s algorithms.

And it can also take the form of unfair game design, i.e. having 37 positions on the roulette wheel (0–36) but only offering 1/36 chance of winning.

There are are also a laundry list of other fees you can probably see directly if you look close enough like deposit fees, withdrawal fees, payment processing fees, and so forth.

Most “crypto casinos” offer some sort of improvement, but it’s probably not as big as you would hope.

One of most blockchains’ “big things” is transparency.

So if you see the term blockchain floating around a certain online casino, you can probably expect to get better transparency and fees than at a traditional casino.

Just remember that most online casinos have their own crypto tokens (not crypto coins — they’re different) and that means you are gambling in someone’s walled garden.

That’s not automatically a bad thing. There are some pretty solid token-based online gambling platforms out there. Just do your due diligence. It could be, for example, that one of these walled gardens has some sort of indirect way of making money that is not so obvious — similar to how traditional casinos don’t publish their house edge.

Even so, in our opinion there’s only one fee you should be paying to gamble online. And it’s the only fee you’ll ever have to pay at BlockStamp Games.

When you place a bet on BlockStamp Games, you have to cover a miner’s fee to ensure your bet gets sent into the system in a timely way.

Strictly speaking, this isn’t just a fee to gamble. It is a fee that you would pay to send crypto coins on the Bitcoin blockchain or any of its forks (including the BlockStamp blockchain). That’s because most so-called blockchain miners would like a small fee to add your transaction to a block.

And technically speaking, you don’t even have to agree to cover this fee. But your transaction might not go through very slowly or not at all.

Currently, the miner’s fee to send in a bet on BlockStamp Games is almost nothing. Literally!

That’s it. If you’re paying anything else to gamble, you shouldn’t be.

You shouldn’t even be paying to have your crypto winnings sent back you.

Let’s say you won some Bitcoin playing on another online gambling platform that accepts Bitcoin as a payment method.

You’re going to have to cover the miner’s fee to send in your BTC to place your bet. The BTC miner’s fee is going to be waaay more expensive than the BST miner’s fee. But fair enough, in principle you have to expect to do that on any crypto gambling platform.

But you’re going to have to cover the miner’s fee to have your BTC sent back to your BTC address!

Again… especially for BTC, that miner’s fee won’t be cheap.

At BlockStamp Games, your winnings get automatically included in a completed block — so you don’t have to worry about paying this fee to get your winnings.

And there you have it. Just one tiny fee to place a bet. No house edge, just fair play. Expect nothing less when you gamble!