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Seven Boxes

Written and checked by Hanne BruunRecords editor

Box six, opened

Five operators in a hundred name the sum that starts the paperwork

Box six of the seven asks for an amount: the sum above which an operator says documents will be requested. Five operators in a hundred answer it. Three of the five print the same figure under the same clause number, one carries a second and lower figure elsewhere in its own terms, and one says in the same sentence that smaller withdrawals may be checked too.

Seven questions get put to a hundred operators on this site. Six of them are about identity and paper. One is about money, and it is the one almost nobody answers.

Seven questions were put to every operator, and the table records which ones its own documents answer: is a permit number printed, is the holding company named, does a register entry open, is a list of excluded countries published, does that list have an address, is a verification threshold stated, is a payout ceiling stated. BitStarz answers five of the seven. The count measures disclosure and nothing else — an operator that names one country rather than seventy-four is not more open, it has simply printed less, and its contract may still exclude what its list does not mention. An empty cell means the document was not read. It is not a zero, and it is not a permission.
CasinoOperatorLicenceCountries barredWithdrawal limitVisit
Vavepaid placementLatcas B.V.Curaçao Gaming Authoritylist not readfrom 50,000 USDT in instalments cl. 8.8Visit
BitStarzGareton B.V.Curaçao Gaming Authority74not published
RocketpotDanneskjold Ventures B.V.Curacao34not published
Bitcasino.ioMoon Technologies B.V.Curaçao Gaming Authority1not published
Wild FortuneMetlait SRLAnjouan Gaming Board47not published
Wild.ioNonce Gaming B.V.Curaçao Gaming Authority45not published
Instant CasinoAxenora Strategic Services N.V.Curaçao Gaming Authority48not published
CoinCasinoIgloo Ventures SRLAnjouan Gaming Board36not published
Empire.ioPixel Entertainment LimitedAnjouan Gaming Board12not published
Winz.ioNovatrix SRLAnjouan Gaming Board92not published
DuckDiceZentari LimitadaAnjouan Gaming Board16not published
Playbet.ioBitx Operations N.V.Curaçao Gaming Authority30not published

The five, with the clause each figure sits in

OperatorAmountClause
Bitcasino.io€2,5006.6
Sportsbet.io€2,5006.6
Livecasino.io€2,5006.6
Rocketpot$2,50011.4
Empire.io2,000 USDT5.4

Ninety-five cells in that column are blank. They are blank for two different reasons, and the difference is worth keeping straight: in some the operator described the check and withheld the number, in others the document itself stayed shut. Neither is a finding that documents will not be asked for.

Across the hundred, a verification clause of some kind was read for 49 operators. All 49 reserve the right to demand documents at the operator's own judgement. Five of the 49 attach a figure to that right.

Forty-four operators, then, have written down the power and left out the point at which it is used.

A drawing of a mole clerk holding up a printed form with one ruled box left empty
A drawing, made for this page — an illustration rather than anyone’s screen. The empty box is the whole point of the section it sits in. On this site a blank cell says the document behind it had not been opened by the reading date, and it says nothing else: not a zero, not a clean bill of health, not a permission. Sixty-two of the hundred country schedules are still on that reading list.

What the brand this site is named after writes instead

The BitStarz terms establish KYC as an obligatory player verification procedure. They reserve the right to require proof of identity, proof of payment and proof of address, and to request further documentation at the operator's sole discretion or during deposits.

Read that as a reader planning a deposit and it answers a different question from the one being asked. It says which documents can be demanded, which is useful. It says the demand may come at any time, which is honest. It does not say when.

A policy tells a reader that the request may arrive. A figure tells a reader when. Box six asks for the second thing, and this is a five-out-of-a-hundred market for it.

Four of the five qualify their own number

The obvious next move — shortlist the five — runs into the wording of four of them.

Sportsbet.io's clause 6.6 gives the operator the right to verify above €2,500 and, in the same clause, permits verification of smaller withdrawals as well. The threshold marks where checks become expected rather than where they begin.

Rocketpot prints two figures in one document. Clause 11.4 says withdrawals exceeding the equivalent of 0.05 BTC or $2,500 may require verification; a later clause in the same terms describes additional checks on any withdrawal over $2,000. The lower number never appears in the summary anywhere, and a reader planning against $2,500 is planning against the higher of two figures the operator itself wrote down. The same clause also names a coin amount alongside a dollar amount, and those two diverge whenever the coin moves.

Bitcasino.io and Livecasino.io use the softer construction: the operator reserves the right to carry out additional verification procedures for withdrawals exceeding €2,500 — additional to whatever it already does, which is not enumerated.

Empire.io's clause 5.4 is the plainest of the five: additional verification for any withdrawal exceeding 2,000 USDT or the same value in other currencies.

So the five are one clearly stated figure, two soft ones, one qualified in its own sentence, and one contradicted by its own document. That is what the strongest cell in this column looks like once it is opened.

Three brands, one sentence

Three of the five print €2,500 under clause number 6.6.

Bitcasino.io and Livecasino.io resolve to a single company on a single Curaçao permit. Sportsbet.io resolves to a different company on a different permit and carries the identical figure at the identical clause number.

That is shared drafting rather than a converging market. It also means the five are, in terms of independent decisions, closer to four — and a reader compiling a shortlist of operators that publish a threshold has fewer genuinely distinct options than the count suggests. Which brands share a counterparty behind the shopfront is a separate question with its own arithmetic, touched on at what a register entry is worth.

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Why the blank matters more than the figure

Seventeen operators in the hundred attach a figure to at least one of the two money questions — the verification threshold or the payout ceiling. Eighty-three attach one to neither.

Among the nineteen operators that score five boxes alongside BitStarz, eighteen carry that same pair of blanks. So the two gaps are a habit of the trade rather than a quirk of one brand, and a reader who leaves over them is looking for a property that most of the market has chosen not to publish.

What the blank costs is a moment. With a printed figure, a person knows before depositing which side of the line a planned withdrawal falls on. Without one, the request arrives at whatever size the operator decides, and the first notice of it is usually a payout that has stopped moving. The clause has already settled the argument in advance by calling the discretion sole.

This site prints no advice about documents and never has. What it prints is the wording, the clause number, and the count of how many operators were willing to be held to a figure.

Where this box sits among the seven

Identity questions are cheap to publish and widely published; money questions are rare. That asymmetry is the whole shape of the tally, and it is set out across all seven at the seven boxes.

The other money question, the ceiling on what may leave an account in a stated period, is answered by 14 of the hundred. The country question, which decides whether any of this becomes relevant, is answered by 38, and its country-by-country consequences run through the country pages. Who is doing the reading, and what this site declines to claim, is at the about page.

Questions people actually type

Which crypto casinos publish a KYC threshold?
Five of the hundred read for this site. Bitcasino.io, Sportsbet.io and Livecasino.io each set €2,500 in clause 6.6. Rocketpot sets $2,500 in clause 11.4. Empire.io sets 2,000 USDT in clause 5.4. Every other operator either describes the check without an amount or published nothing that was read.
What does BitStarz say about verification?
Its terms establish KYC as an obligatory player verification procedure and reserve the right to require proof of identity, proof of payment and proof of address, plus further documentation at the operator's sole discretion or during deposits. That is a description of a power and of the documents it can reach. No amount is attached to any of it, which places the brand in the 95 rather than the five.
Is a published threshold a promise that smaller withdrawals go unchecked?
No, and four of the five say so in their own wording. The Sportsbet.io clause permits verification of withdrawals below its figure as well. Rocketpot carries a second threshold at $2,000 in a later clause of the same document, lower than the $2,500 in clause 11.4. A printed figure marks a level above which checks are expected, not a level below which they are excluded.
Why do three operators share a figure and a clause number?
Because shared drafting produces shared clauses. Bitcasino.io and Livecasino.io resolve to one company on one Curaçao permit; Sportsbet.io is a separate company on a separate permit and prints the identical figure at the identical clause number. Three brands, two counterparties, one sentence — which is a fact about how these documents are written rather than evidence of a market standard.