Lobby and maths
Ethereum casino games: what funding with ETH changes in the lobby
The short answer is that it changes very little, and that is worth knowing before anyone sells you a difference. The coin you deposit decides how money reaches the account; it does not decide what is on the shelves.
The rest of this page is about the few places where the coin does show up in a lobby, and about why a game session itself never touches the network.
Do Ethereum casinos have different games?
Not because of the coin. A game belongs to the studio that made it, and the operator decides which studios it lists. An operator that takes ether and one that takes only cards can carry the same slot, the same live table and the same crash game.
Where operators differ is in their own originals, the games built in-house. Two of the twelve describe theirs as provably fair, BetFury on its home page and BC.GAME in its own description. That is a property of how one game is built and documented, and the coin used to fund the account has no part in it.
Does it cost gas to play?
Inside an operator's own account, no. A bet is an entry in the operator's books, not a transfer on the network, so a hundred spins and one spin cost the same network fee: none. Gas appears only when money moves in or out, at the deposit and at the withdrawal.
That is the reason for the shape of this site. The lobby is the same wherever you go, and the cashier is where operators differ in ways you pay for.
Where return and volatility live
The return a game pays over the long run and the swings along the way are set inside the game. They do not read the cashier. A slot funded in ether pays as the same slot funded any other way, and the independent laboratories that test a random number generator test the game and not the money that reached it. A promise of a better return because the deposit was in a coin describes something that does not exist.
What the coin does change on the screen
Two things. The first is the unit the account is kept in: an operator may hold your balance in ether, or convert at the deposit into a display currency and convert back at the withdrawal, and the cashier should say which. The second is the arithmetic of stakes. A balance held in ether changes in your own currency while you play, even when the game is not moving it, so a stake limit set in one unit and a result read in another can disagree for reasons unrelated to the game.
Questions that come up
| Are Ethereum casino games rigged differently from others? | No. The fairness of a game is a property of the game and its testing, not of the coin used to fund the account. |
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| Do I need ETH to play slots at these operators? | That depends on the operator's cashier. This site only records what each one says about ETH. |
Carry on with
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