Bitcoin Dice Site PrimeDice is Shutting Down After 13 Years

PrimeDice, one of the original Bitcoin gambling sites, will be shutting down on October 8th after 13 years in operation. A notice on the PrimeDice website urges players to withdraw their funds before this date. The site also suggests that users migrate to Stake.com, the massive cryptocurrency gambling platform launched by the same founders. While new players can no longer create accounts, existing account holders can still log in to manage their funds.

This October marks the end of an era for one of the most influential platforms in cryptocurrency gambling history. Although PrimeDice was not the first Bitcoin dice site—that title belongs to SatoshiDice—it was the platform that successfully pushed the game into the mainstream.

History of PrimeDice

PrimeDice was launched in May 2013, originally accepting only Bitcoin. They followed in the footsteps of SatoshiDice.

SatoshiDice was the first true Bitcoin gambling site, launched in April 2012 by Erik Voorhees, an early Bitcoin entrepreneur. While SatoshiDice operated “on-chain” (meaning every bet required a slow network confirmation and a mining fee), PrimeDice took the game “off-chain.”

They processed bets instantly on their servers, allowing for rapid-fire gambling and micro-bets without network fees. PrimeDice launched with a slick, user-friendly interface and a social chat room.

Another massive achievement of this site was to popularize the provably fair cryptographic system, which to this day allows players to verify the outcome of bets placed on casino games.

PrimeDice has not changed significantly over the years, and it remains relatively popular. Looking at search data from Ahrefs.com, while the site’s traffic never recovered from its early highs in 2017 and 2018, it never truly died out either.

The closure of PrimeDice has more to do with consolidating resources around the multi-billion-dollar Stake brand than any inherent issues with PrimeDice itself.

The legacy of PrimeDice will live on at Stake Casino. Stake features a specific “Prime Dice” game as part of its Stake Originals collection. This serves as a nice nod to its sister site while signifying that the transition from PrimeDice to Stake.com is essentially complete.

Stake is now the largest crypto gambling site in the world, offering everything PrimeDice did and much more. To put this scale into perspective, Stake.com recorded an astounding 6,787,422,073 bets throughout February. This averages out to more than 2,800 bets per second across the platform.

This highlights a broader trend among cryptocurrency gambling sites to grow and become bigger in the battle for player retention, often at the expense of small, niche sites.

Bet on Everything

Popular gambling sites like Stake and BC.Game can reinvest the billions in revenue they generate back into their platforms. And these funds can fund big-name sponsorship deals with figures like Drake and the UFC.

Today’s cryptocurrency gambling sites are rapidly evolving into “bet-on-everything” platforms. Players can now gamble on volatile crypto prices, UFC matches, interactive game shows, live CCTV streams, and almost anything else imaginable. This evolution aligns with the rise of prediction markets, where users can wager on nearly any real-world outcome, for better or worse.

A site like PrimeDice is the complete opposite of this. But it has maintained a following despite its simple nature, or maybe thanks to it.

PrimeDice will forever hold its place in history, even as the industry moves past small, specialized dice sites. According to Stake’s February recap, “Stake Originals” were the most popular game provider on the platform for the month. Bitcoin dice is still massively popular at crypto casinos. This means more people are playing these instant, in-house games than those from massive studios like Evolution Gaming.

The widespread success of these in-house games—both for Stake and the broader crypto gambling industry—owes a great deal to PrimeDice. PrimeDice was one of the first platforms to successfully introduce crypto dice to a wider audience. They have firmly cemented their place in Bitcoin gambling history.

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