What this site is
Casino Winners Club reviews crypto and cryptocurrency-friendly online casinos. We have been running since 2023.
We are a small independent operation, not a media group. That has two consequences worth being upfront about. The good one is that nobody can buy a score off us, because there is no sales team to buy it from. The bad one is that we cannot review everything, so we cover a focused list of operators properly rather than three hundred badly.
Why we publish under pen names
Our editors write under working names. We want to explain that rather than pretend otherwise, because a review site with no names on it should make you suspicious, and you are right to ask.
Two reasons.
This industry has a history of going after people personally. Affiliates and reviewers who write critically about operators have been doxxed, threatened, and had their families contacted. Ours is a small team and we are not prepared to expose them, or their households, to that in exchange for a byline.
Anonymity should not mean unaccountability. So here is what we hold ourselves to instead:
- Every article names its author, and that author is one consistent person writing in that name. We do not rotate a name across a pool of writers.
- Every author page says plainly that the name is a working name.
- Every claim about a casino that could be disputed is sourced, and the source is named in the review — usually a clause number in the operator’s own terms.
- Corrections are published, not quietly edited. See the Editorial Policy.
We think a sourced claim under a pen name is worth more than an unsourced claim under a real one. But we would rather you judged the work than took our word, which is why How We Rate publishes the actual thresholds we score against, so you can check whether we applied them.
We are not anonymous to the operators and affiliate networks who pay us — that relationship requires verified identity on our side. We are anonymous to the open internet, deliberately.
We have actually met these operators
This is the kind of claim every affiliate site makes, so here is the specific version.
We attend the industry’s trade events and meet operators, affiliate managers and platform providers face to face. Specifically: iGB Affiliate Barcelona twice, and iGB Affiliate London. We have had dinners and working meetings with operator teams, including BetUS among others.
What that is worth to you: when a casino changes its withdrawal policy or its affiliate terms, we usually hear it from a person rather than a press release, and we can ask a direct question and get a direct answer. It means we know which groups run which brands, which is not always public.
What it is not worth: it does not make us impartial by itself, and it does not mean we go soft. Sitting across a table from someone is exactly how you find out what they will and will not say on the record. Where a conversation has informed a review, we say so in the review.
How we are paid
By commission from casinos, when a reader signs up through our links. That is the standard model for this entire category and we are not pretending otherwise.
What we will not do, and this is the part that actually costs money:
- We do not sell position. A casino cannot pay to be first in a list.
- We do not sell scores. Commission rate is not a scoring input, and the people writing reviews are not the people negotiating deals.
- We do not remove criticism on request. We have been asked. If a factual correction is due we make it; if an operator simply dislikes an accurate finding, it stays.
- We do not list casinos that will not take the reader. If an operator blocks your country we would earn nothing from sending you there, and you would waste your time finding out at your first withdrawal. Our United States page lists exactly one casino for this reason, because fifteen of the sixteen we review refuse US players.
Full detail on the Affiliate Disclosure page.
How we use AI
We use AI tools in our research and drafting. Plenty of sites in this category do and do not admit it, so we will.
Where we use it: gathering and cross-checking operator terms, drafting and structuring, and catching our own inconsistencies across a lot of pages.
Where we do not: we do not publish a claim about a casino that a human has not checked against a primary source, because AI tools are confidently wrong about exactly the things that matter here — licence numbers, country restrictions, withdrawal limits. Every factual claim in a review traces to the operator’s own document.
We also do not invent people. Our author names are working names for real people, not AI personas with fabricated life stories.
What we will not review
- Casinos operating in markets where they are not permitted to take the player. We exclude Ontario from all of our casino listings, for everyone, because no crypto casino can hold an iGaming Ontario registration — the regulator requires balances in Canadian dollars and does not accept cryptocurrency — and Ontario has its own registered market that players there should use instead.
- Operators with no identifiable licence at all.
- Anything aimed at under-18s.
Gambling is not an income
The maths of every game on every site we review favours the house. That is not a flaw in the casinos, it is what a casino is. Over enough spins the house edge wins, and no strategy, system or bonus changes that.
If you gamble, gamble money you have decided in advance you are willing to lose, and stop when it is gone. If that is not how it currently works for you, our Responsible Gambling page has the free confidential help available where you are, and the tools for locking yourself out.
Contact
Editorial corrections and operator enquiries: use the contact form. We do not publish a phone number or a postal address, for the reasons above.
