Read against its own payments page
USD at BitStarz: a dollar account named in the operator's own currency list
The question on this page is narrow. Does BitStarz hold a balance in US dollars, or only coins? Its payments page answers in a sentence: it says it accepts the following currencies, and the list that follows opens with Euro and US Dollars long before it reaches Bitcoin.
Everything below was read from the operator's own pages: the payments page, and a news post from March 2020 that explains how a crypto deposit turns into a fiat balance. The post is old, and the text says where that matters.
Does BitStarz accept US dollars?
Yes, by its own statement. The page reads “Currently, we accept the following currencies”, and seven fiat currencies come first: Euro, US Dollars, Canadian Dollar, Australian Dollar, New Zealand Dollar, Japanese Yen and Norwegian Krone. Twelve coins follow, Tether and USD Coin among them.
The words “the following” carry weight. A list introduced that way is a closed one, so the presence of the dollar is as firm as the presence of Bitcoin, and a currency missing from it would be a statement too. The page has no date.
What the sentence does not say is which route fills a dollar balance for a given account. That belongs to the cashier, and the cashier is the only place that can answer it for you.
How does money reach a dollar balance there?
The deposit table prints three fiat methods, all e-wallets: Skrill, Neteller and Much Better. Each line says fee 0%, processing instantly, and a limit per transaction of Min €20 and Max €4,000. Below them come the coin lines, each with a minimum in its own unit; for Tether and for USD Coin the minimum reads 10 of the coin.
The limits are written in euros, including on the coin lines of the withdrawal table, where Tether is printed as Min €50 and Max €50,000. For a reader with a dollar balance that is worth noticing once: the page names its limits in one unit and says nothing about how they are converted.
The March 2020 post describes a second path, deposit in crypto and play in fiat. You enter the amount and the currency you want to play with, pick a coin to pay with, send it to the address shown, and after the confirmations the deposit is credited “in the fiat currency you selected”. The post says the feature was added because not every game could then be played in coins.
Can a dollar balance at BitStarz be cashed out in dollars?
Here the two sources differ. The 2020 post says that after a crypto-funded fiat balance you pick the fiat currency at cash-out and the options offered are cryptocurrencies, converted in real time and sent to your wallet once support has reviewed the request. The payments page prints a withdrawal table that lists the same three e-wallets at Min €50 and Max €10,000, next to coins at Min €50 and Max €50,000.
The payments page carries no date, so the two cannot be put in order. Where they differ the cashier decides, and it may offer a different route to a balance funded by card than to one funded by coin.
Is a dollar balance the same as holding USDT there?
No, and the page separates them itself: US Dollars and Tether are two entries in one list, and each gets its own lines in the tables. A dollar balance is counted in dollars and moved by payment processors. A USDT balance is a count of tokens that is priced like a dollar and moved by networks. The practical check is the same everywhere: read the unit written beside the balance.
Questions about USD at BitStarz
| Does BitStarz list US dollars? | Yes. The payments page names US Dollars in the list of currencies it says it accepts, beside Euro and five other fiat currencies. |
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| Are BitStarz limits shown in dollars? | No. They are printed in euros, and the coin deposits in the coin's own unit. |
Where to go from here
Payments the three roads to a balance and the conversion between them
CoinCasino the card before this one, read the same way
Duelbits the next card, with its own statements and its own gaps