How Curtis Tests Crypto Casinos

I write about gambling compliance, which is a duller beat than reviewing casinos and the reason I ended up doing both. I spent years reading state statutes and licensing conditions for a living, and what struck me about consumer coverage of offshore sites was how confidently it stated things that are genuinely unsettled.

So on pages like this I try to separate three things people routinely conflate: what federal law actually says, what your state says, and what an offshore licence gets you in practice. The answers are less alarming than the scare pieces and much less comfortable than the affiliate pages. I also flag the tax treatment, because two separate taxable events is the single most common thing US crypto gamblers get wrong.

I am based in Yonkers. I am not a lawyer and nothing here is legal or tax advice — if the amounts matter, pay a professional. If something on this page is out of date because a state changed its rules, tell me and I will correct it.

The Method in Short

Fund the account personally. Play. Request a withdrawal. Log the submission time, the approval time and the arrival time as three separate numbers. Rank on the middle one, because it is the only number the operator controls. Re-test when a reader reports something different.