@Shishir99 (#13)
You raise a fair distinction. I'm not claiming it's intentional — I can't prove that. What I can say is that the outcome is the same whether it's deliberate design or catastrophic negligence: a person on record as self-excluded was able to pass KYC using the exact same government-issued ID and the same image file. Whether that's a policy choice or a broken integration between their responsible gambling and KYC systems, the result is identical. A system that fails in this specific way — on the same platform, with the same document — either needs to be fixed or explained.

@yhiaali3 (#14)
Thank you for the honest assessment. I understand the likely outcome, and I'm not under any illusion that Stake will suddenly change course. But the value of documenting this publicly isn't just about my individual case — it's about creating a record. If this pattern is happening with other players and nobody speaks up, nothing ever changes. I'd still appreciate the link if you find it, even just to understand the timeline and what arguments were tried.


@nutildah (#15)
I'll keep this simple.
I'm a real person. English is not my native language — I used a tool to fix grammar and spelling so my posts would be readable. The words and facts are mine. That's it.
The screenshots are redacted because this is a public forum, not because I have anything to hide. The full documentation exists.
As for the policy quote — a clause in Stake's own terms doesn't erase the fact that their system approved the same ID document that was already linked to a self-excluded account. That's not a matter of interpretation, it's just what happened.
If anyone actually wants to see the evidence rather than speculate, I have a PDF with screenshots of my full chat history with Stake support. Happy to share it here.

https://stake-emails.tiiny.site/

Yeah, it happened but now fans have evolved they only fight each other via social media in the name of hate comments.

At least there is no property to trash now since things are happening digitally but spreading hatred still happens, that is an attempt to convince others to hate them as well.

And it's not just in loss even after win there can be serious issue like the one happened in IPL 2025. RCB won the title and went back to their home stadium for people to celebrate because this is their first championship since the beginning of IPL but it costed 12 or 18 lives due to the stampede that happened at the gathering.

When you think about it, the point is that we’ll eventually receive the funds in our wallet, whether it’s a fast or slow withdrawal. However, we prefer fast withdrawals—it’s a psychological trait of ours as humans that we simply can’t wait very long. As long as the withdrawal is still in process or our money is still in the casino’s wallet, it isn’t truly ours yet. So it’s natural to feel anxious or whatever else while we haven’t seen the balance in our personal wallet.

And one of the common promotional tactics used by casinos is to highlight fast withdrawals, because they know that users really want to see that.

Time for yet another brief monthly overview of the local boards activity, this time a little bit later than usual as I was travelling and its pain in the ass to do these kind of things on laptop screen alone. All charts and table are made using data from @DdmrDdmr Merit Dashboard and BitList.

Communities marked with * (Pakistan, Bengali) don't have their own local boards but are part of this overview nevertheless.

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Post activity per local board during February 2026

During February, 12919 posts were written across local boards that are part of the overview, which is a noticeable drop compared to January's 13925. Majority of that drop happened on the most active board, Nigerian, whose numbers went down from 4824 in January to 3924 in February. Despite the drop, they are still by far the most active board, followed by Russian and  Turkish.

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Active members per local board during February 2026

During the above mentioned period, 1335 members wrote at least one post, which is an expected drop compared to January's 1392. Unsurprisingly, majority of the drop happened on the Nigerian board. It would be ineteresting to hear from someone from their local board (maybe from their local sheriff Igebotz?) what has happened there.

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Local board members per amount of posts during February 2026

When it comes to the percentage of members who wrote only one post in their board during February, leader is Indian board with 50%, while at the same time Croatian local board had only 14% of such members.

At the 2-9 posts bracket leader is French board with 52%, while Turkish was at the bottom with 36%.

Regarding the 10+ posts bracket, the leader is Portuguese board with 50% of such members, while French is at the bottom with only 5% of the members that wrote 10+ posts during last month.

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Merit shared per local board during February 2026

During February, 7901 merit was shared across local boards which is a big drop compared to January during which 9717 merit was shared. This time noy only Nigerian  board is responisble for such a big drop, but basically all the more active and merited boards as well. Despite the drop, I think those are still pretty good numbers.

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Merit/Post ratio per local board during February 2026

As it can be seen on the chart, despite the big drop of merit sent, merit per post ratio remained pretty high. Well, at least on the majorify of the boards, while some like Greek, Bengali, Pilipinas and French are still struggling.

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Merit senders and receivers per local board during February 2026

During the last month, 535 members sent while 615 members of local boards received merit, which is expectedly a drop compared to January (633 senders, 725 receivers)

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Percentage of merited posts across local boards during February 2026

Once again Romanian board remained at the top of this chart, but this time with more realistic (but still very high) 45% merited posts, while Indian and Italian were just behind them. At the same time we have Greek board which is on par with Off Topic and similar boards.

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Merit per transaction across local boards during February 2026

And the last in this series of charts, merit per transaction, that shows meriting habits of local boards.

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The most active members per local board during February 2026

Last but not the least in this monthly overview, the list of the most active members per local board. mandown from Turkish local has been the most active member with 132 posts, followed by two member from Russian local, Julien_Olynpic  with 121 post and klarki with 119 post. GG guys!

Russian	|	German	|	Turkish	|	Italian	|	Portuguese	|	Spanish	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Julien_Olynpic [121]	|	1. mole0815 [104]	|	1. mandown [132]	|	1. gbianchi [63]	|	1. joker_josue [97]	|	1. famososMuertos [32]	|
2. klarki [119]	|	2. Lakai01 [66]	|	2. execijutiere [90]	|	2. Italian Panic [43]	|	2. TryNinja [38]	|	2. LUSUBY [32]	|
3. safar1980 [113]	|	3. MaxMueller [54]	|	3. yenerbatmaz [72]	|	3. fillippone [39]	|	3. Forsyth Jones [34]	|	3. Hispo [24]	|
4. Numeral [102]	|	4. Real-Duke [51]	|	4. Hvdv [61]	|	4. Plutosky [34]	|	4. alegotardo [33]	|	4. Don Pedro Dinero [22]	|
5. xandry [96]	|	5. Soonandwaite [51]	|	5. kriminall [60]	|	5. babo [32]	|	5. criptoevangelista [33]	|	5. Porfirii [20]	|
6. zasad@ [90]	|	6. cygan [49]	|	6. Mustang Shelby [57]	|	6. Ale88 [31]	|	6. Pumared [30]	|	6. darxiaomi [15]	|
7. Alex077 [81]	|	7. willi9974 [47]	|	7. Phoenix Anka [56]	|	7. Paolo.Demidov [29]	|	7. sabotag3x [27]	|	7. danadc [13]	|
8. mak013 [65]	|	8. Koal-84 [47]	|	8. MomusReign [52]	|	8. georgino22222 [20]	|	8. bitmover [27]	|	8. Crystal-Trade.org [12]	|
9. tvplus006 [63]	|	9. MinoRaiola [47]	|	9. blomen [51]	|	9. *Ace* [15]	|	9. rdluffy [22]	|	9. Tete130 [11]	|
10. internetional [62]	|	10. Unknown01 [46]	|	10. lodocus [50]	|	10. bitcoiner180 [12]	|	10. mikel_012 [18]	|	10. btc-marty [10]	|

Indonesian	|	French	|	Pilipinas	|	Croatian	|	Nigerian	|	Arabic	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. Chikito [75]	|	1. rony_btc [14]	|	1. arwin100 [23]	|	1. slackovic [48]	|	1. Jubilee58 [81]	|	1. Kavelj22 [32]	|
2. Husna QA [70]	|	2. winspiral [9]	|	2. julerz12 [23]	|	2. katanic97 [36]	|	2. Floxynice [74]	|	2. yhiaali3 [26]	|
3. AakZaki [34]	|	3. Danydee [8]	|	3. cryptoaddictchie [23]	|	3. Daniel91 [29]	|	3. Africolo [49]	|	3. khaled0111 [24]	|
4. taufik123 [33]	|	4. patrickus [5]	|	4. Fredomago [21]	|	4. ovcijisir [25]	|	4. Cleanshit [48]	|	4. OmegaStarScream [9]	|
5. joniboini [31]	|	5. TryNinja [4]	|	5. tech30338 [21]	|	5. cryptofrka [22]	|	5. Yablee0 [47]	|	5. RedFlix [7]	|
6. mu_enrico [31]	|	6. fpelu [4]	|	6. bhadz [20]	|	6. examplens [21]	|	6. Karl_3000 [45]	|	6. NotATether [4]	|
7. masulum [25]	|	7. oscar2000 [3]	|	7. xLays [20]	|	7. Rikafip [21]	|	7. PremiumcryptoHub [41]	|	7. GxSTxV [4]	|
8. Rashlyowl [24]	|	8. paid2 [3]	|	8. robelneo [18]	|	8. Pmalek [18]	|	8. Crypto_Timothy [41]	|	8. DireWolfM14 [3]	|
9. Luzin [23]	|	9. gaelium [3]	|	9. coin-investor [18]	|	9. Trofo [16]	|	9. Charles-Tim [37]	|	9. Ochan_yazo_tochant [3]	|
10. MAAManda [18]	|	10. Botchain [3]	|	10. GreatArkansas [18]	|	10. dkbit98 [16]	|	10. Mr Reporter [36]	|	10. hugeblack [2]	|

Polish	|	Indian	|	Greek	|	Romanian	|	Pakistan*	|	Bengali*	|
_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|	_________________	|
1. cygan [12]	|	1. JSRAW [32]	|	1. cryptosize [36]	|	1. NeuroticFish [23]	|	1. qurbanshah02 [38]	|	1. Bd officer [17]	|
2. pawel7777 [4]	|	2. Bitcoin Smith [26]	|	2. BlackHatCoiner [20]	|	2. GazetaBitcoin [11]	|	2. ZAINmalik75 [36]	|	2. DYING_S0UL [11]	|
3. TryNinja [4]	|	3. vivekdhyani1 [22]	|	3. alani123 [12]	|	3. Botchain [5]	|	3. JunaidAzizi [34]	|	3. Crypto Library [7]	|
4. kazikbalaganiarz [3]	|	4. pawanjain [20]	|	4. Ultegra134 [5]	|	4. TryNinja [4]	|	4. MusaPk [20]	|	4. Shishir99 [7]	|
5. Judicar [1]	|	5. TheUltraElite [8]	|	5. BitcoinsGreece [2]	|	5. b1ack [3]	|	5. Rustam Meraj [20]	|	5. B2Z [3]	|
6. stwenhao [1]	|	6. Cointikka [5]	|	6. whoismeanyway [2]	|	6. isidor44 [3]	|	6. HustleZ [18]	|	6. Hridyansh Labs [2]	|
7. cryptdar88 [1]	|	7. henmark [4]	|	7. WebMonero [2]	|	7. UsdtBucuresti [2]	|	7. Faisal2202 [16]	|	7. Mahiyammahi [2]	|
	|	8. IIrik11 [4]	|	8. bxcxsdfg [1]	|	8. max2000irc [1]	|	8. BTC FutureKing [13]	|	8. Btcloop [1]	|
	|	9. M47AK16 [3]	|		|	9. othell_rogue [1]	|	9. Jaweria parveen [13]	|	9. Comando65 [1]	|
	|	10. Rahulkirford [3]	|		|	10. Razvan_BTC [1]	|	10. Publictalk792 [12]	|	10. Morshedbns [1]	|

It might be really different as far as withdrawal goes for every casino and the network itself or what coin that they are withdrawing. As long as the support team knows what is going on when you do a follow up then that is ok. Maybe the best practice is that after you make a withdrawal, you might want to tag the support and let them know that you have withdraw already and you should be expecting the money in your wallet to be seen in the next confirmation. So at least they know that you are watching the withdrawal and that you have technical knowledge as far as when it should be credited to your account base on confirmation as seen in the blockchain of the coin that you are withdrawing.

Yeah, you are very correct, people always want to be in casinos that will offer fast withdrawals, especially if its money that comes with less stress, meanwhile they gamble with lesser amount of money. Though, its a good move as most gamblers can't withhold pressure if they gamble with a big amount of money and for the sake of these set of people, it will be good and necessary if casinos are more transparent on their withdrawals, so that they will keep attracting more customers through feedback from the players who are satisfied with their services.

Unfortunately for NFT lovers, you are absolutely right, I've lost thousands of dollars on nfts on ethereum, I spent over 6 ethereum coins buying nfts on ethereum during the nft hype, if you remember the days of Dego mining and the rest, some of those nfts are still sitting in a wallet I've thrown away because there is absolutely no liquidity or demand for them, other nfts I staked on a mining platform and the platform shut down and there was no way to get back my staked nft, but even if there was a way, the nft also does not have any demand or liquidity to sell..

NFTS are very useless across almost all blockchain and this is because they come wit absolutely no utility, and those that come a utility at first usually don't have any sustainability measures to maintain that utility for long term so that the nft will maintain a long term value and demand as well, this is one and major reason why nfts are dead, even those that seem promising at first still end you dying.

It's funny what management is thinking. Why are they jumping on all these interesting trends like NFTs and ICOs so late? Why try to drink from an empty well? Ultimately, their NFT shit will be as disastrous as the useless ICO itself, and they'll be forced to spend several more million to satisfy everyone who's been holding them to this day.

Perhaps they'll realize their mistake and stop doing this again, constantly promising and then reneging.

Yes, the new rules, such as required activity in 2026  and other changes to the drop rules, are simply unfair to people who, for example, can no longer make deposits, etc.

Yes, I think 1 or 2 hours is quick enough

Some casinos have instant withdrawals but even 1 or 2 hours is ok. If you are gambling why are you worried that your money will not arrive in 5 minutess? You should not be gambling if you need the money this fast to pay the bills or pay for food. If you have money on a casino why it matters waiting 1 hour and not 5 minutes?

24h I can say it's an issue because it's too much

All that still doesn't change the fact that (if what OP saying is true) Stake has a pretty shitty self-exclusion mechanism, that is designed to fail. I mean, how on earth can you pass KYC verification on the website you self-excluded yourself?

That just doesn't make any sense to me, if you actually want self-exclusion to work.

Starlink is illegal in Iran, and if you get caught using one, you end up in jail. So yeah, not many are willing to risk that.



Probably to prevent the rest of the world from seeing that not only Iranians living abroad, but also those inside Iran were massively celebrating when their Supreme Leader was killed.

Can you give us the gist of the story if you don't mind? Was he given any reason why he was blocked?

Good thing you know 

Pretty impressive!
Yeah, no one likes delayed withdrawals or payments. It can be frustrating.

It doesn’t take too long. For my last withdrawals it was very quick, I think 1 or 2 hours and only because I ask for the withdrawal and close the website. When I check later the money is already in my wallet.

Many casinos take more than 1 day so it’s a trouble.

Yeah so far everything has been great. This is definitely not a shill, i am
Regular gambler for years lol. I was really impressed by the web3 instant withdrawals. Have played on many sites before but this was something else, more casinos should adopt this.

I have been able to cash out 20k for now. Hopefully everything will go smoothly with no hickups. I can’t stand casinos that stall payment. So far MetaWin looks solid.

I agree with you, there is no way to control fate and it is impossible, but even then those who try to control this impossible thing with their false skills, end up being affected in a harmful way. The result of such activities is definitely a big loss, that is why it is important to understand it correctly. Fate is something that is completely uncertain, and we should keep it in uncertainty and not try to control it, because there is no way to control it, on the contrary, if we do such activities, we will face failure in any case, and in the case of gambling it can definitely take a terrible form.

Luck is something that no gambler can control and there is no way it can be improved. There is no suggestions that will be given by anyone here about how to improve luck that will work.
Skills can not help in improving a gamblers luck. Just like you have said even a skill gambler do still losses, skills has nothing to do with luck . I don't think there is a way to improve luck in gambling that is why it is called luck in first place.