Our Old UK Crypto Casino List: What Happened to Each Brand

The old reviews were written for a market that no longer exists. They praised sign-up without identity checks, quoted bonuses in fractions of a Bitcoin, and treated a provably fair badge as proof of trustworthiness. Several also told British readers that a site was “an excellent choice” for the UK, which was wrong in law after the Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 came into force on 1 November 2014. From that date, any remote operator serving customers in Great Britain needed a Gambling Commission licence.

Rather than refresh a list of unlicensed brands, we now explain the rules. Our guide for UK players covers the licence question, and UK crypto gambling law and tax covers the FCA and HMRC side.

Checks below were made on 7 October 2026 from a UK connection where possible. “Domain” means the address our old review named or the brand’s obvious address.

Our old navigation also linked to CasinoWebScripts, a software vendor rather than a casino, so it is not part of this list. A “No” in the last column does not depend on whether a domain is live: a brand needs a Gambling Commission licence to serve people in Great Britain, and none of these brands offers gambling under one today.

StockBet

The 2014 review described a game for betting small amounts of Bitcoin on share prices and IPOs. On 7 October 2026 stockbet.com did not return a web page. A site at stockbet.io now describes trading on market outcomes; we found nothing on it that links it to the product we reviewed, so treat it as unrelated.

SatoshiBet and Bitcoin bet

Both were early Bitcoin-only casinos. Their domains are now offered for sale, and bitcoin-bet.com carries a fixed asking price on a registrar sales page. Any account balance held with either brand in the 2010s should be regarded as lost unless you have written contact from the former operator.

PlayCoin Casino and DirectBet

These two addresses still load, but neither hosts the gambling product we reviewed. PlayCoin’s domain shows a page titled “Coin Play Casino” with a list of other casino sites, and DirectBet’s domain carries a general article about Bitcoin casinos. Pages like these sometimes keep an old brand name to catch search traffic; they do not take over the old operator’s obligations.

Fun Casino, Dogecoinmachine, Casino Evolution and BTC-Casino.io

Each has simply gone. One domain is on a marketplace, one no longer resolves, one is parked, and one returns an error. Our 2014 review of Dogecoinmachine described a single Dogecoin slot; that coin still exists, but the game does not.

Betcoin Palace and betcoin.ag

We could not find a live site trading as Betcoin Palace. A crypto casino and sportsbook under the Betcoin name does operate at betcoin.ag, describing itself as running since 2013. Its terms, as quoted by several review sites, list the United Kingdom among jurisdictions where accounts may not be opened. It has no Gambling Commission licence, so it may not offer gambling to people in Great Britain either way.

BetMoose

BetMoose ran a peer-to-peer prediction market where users created their own bets. Its homepage now carries a final notice: the service has closed, and anyone who did not withdraw in time is asked to email support from their registered address with their username and last withdrawal address. If that applies to you, use the address on the notice and expect a wait of up to a few weeks, as the notice says.

CasinoLuck

Our old review described CasinoLuck as a Malta-licensed casino that required personal details at sign-up, so it was never an anonymous crypto site. The casinoluck.com domain now hosts an Irish-focused casino comparison site rather than the casino itself.

Our last front page, from 2020, named four larger crypto brands. All four still operate internationally in October 2026. None is for British players.

King Billy’s clause adds that players who break the restriction are not entitled to refunds or withdrawals. That sentence is the real risk behind every “use a VPN” tip you will read on other sites: the casino can keep both your deposit and any winnings once it finds a British address in your documents.

• Crypto gambling brands are short-lived. Every brand on our 2014 list has gone from its old address, and we found a public closure notice for only one of them.
• A domain is not a business. When a brand name reappears on a new page, it usually belongs to someone else. Old balances and loyalty points do not move with it.
• Foreign licences come and go. The four 2020 brands now show licences from three different authorities, and offshore licensing rules have changed repeatedly. For UK readers the only test that matters is the Gambling Commission register.
• Closure notices are short. BetMoose gave users a withdrawal window and then a final notice. Many smaller sites gave nothing.

Besides the brand reviews, the old site carried banner images, feed pages and individual review URLs for each brand. All of them now lead to this page. Our former comparison tables, which also named mainstream fiat casinos, lead to the front page instead, because we no longer rate or rank any operator.

1. Look for any closure notice on the brand’s domain and follow its instructions exactly, using the email address registered to your account.
2. Gather evidence: account username, transaction IDs from the blockchain, deposit dates and amounts, and screenshots of your balance.
3. If the site showed a foreign licence, check whether that regulator handles player complaints. Many do not, or send you to a dispute body paid by the operator.
4. Be wary of “recovery” services that contact you offering to retrieve lost crypto for a fee. Recovery scams target exactly this situation.
5. Report fraud to Action Fraud, the UK’s national reporting centre for fraud and cybercrime, if you believe you were deceived.