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Erik Halvorsen, author of the payments and technology articles on this site
Writer — payments, jackpots and casino technology

What the technology does, and where the claims about it stop.

4 Articles on this site
Crypto Payments Progressive Jackpots Game Certification Slot Mechanics Verification and KYC VR and Live Dealer

About Erik

Erik covers the technical side of this site: what cryptocurrency changes about a deposit and a payout and what it does not, how a progressive pool is built from a slice of every stake, what a headset changes about a live table, and why a symbol sequence carries no information about the next spin.

His sources are the ones a reader can open as well: a game’s information panel and paytable, the provider’s documentation, the rules a certified game has to satisfy, and the operator’s published terms. Where a figure cannot be checked from a published source, the article says so.

What is not here: this site has no access to spin logs, operator data or anyone’s transaction history, and it runs no payment timing tests. An earlier version of this profile claimed tens of thousands of tracked spins and personally timed USDT, SOL and BTC withdrawals; that was removed, because none of it happened.

The claim he refuses most often is that a jackpot becomes due. A progressive pool grows because every stake adds to it, and the trigger stays as unlikely on the day it hits as on any other day.

“If a claim cannot be traced to published rules, a paytable or arithmetic, it does not go in the article.”
— Erik Halvorsen

How a claim gets into one of Erik’s articles

A mechanic is described from what the game publishes about itself and then checked against the rules certification imposes. Nothing here rests on a sample of spins: a few thousand spins cannot distinguish a 94% game from a 96% one, so an article that claimed such a sample would be claiming more than the sample can carry.

Payment claims stay inside what the operator publishes and what the payment rail does by design — a blockchain fee is charged by the network, a withdrawal starts after verification, and crypto is private towards other users rather than towards the casino. Timings quoted anywhere on this site are the operator’s published targets, not measurements of ours.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can a progressive jackpot pattern be spotted?

No, and the article explains why in detail. The pool size is public and the trigger is not tied to it in any way a player can read: a drop at a high pool and a drop at a low one are the same independent event. Anyone selling a pattern is selling the gambler’s fallacy with a chart attached.

Does this site test crypto withdrawal times?

No. We have no account with the operator and no way to time its payouts. The figures quoted are the ones the operator publishes, and they start counting after verification — which is where a first withdrawal usually stalls, whatever the coin.

What does game certification actually guarantee?

That the game’s results match the mathematics its provider submitted to an independent laboratory. It does not guarantee the return figure in force on a particular site — several providers ship the same title in more than one configuration, and the operator chooses. The figure that applies to you is in the game’s own information panel.

Articles by Erik Halvorsen

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