Review Methodology: what each score is actually made of
A score out of ten is of no use unless you can see what has gone into arriving at that score. Here is the model: five weights to be applied in the same way to each of the ten casinos, the question they all answer, and the rules that decide when a figure is allowed onto a page at all.
- 5 weightsand design, game count and brand are worth none of them
- 45%of every score is what it costs to move money in and out
- 0figures taken from a directory, a rival site or a press release
| What is being scored | Weight | Full marks look like | What costs the most |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost to get money in | 25% | A low floor on every rail, and no gap between the cheapest and the pre-selected one | A hundredfold spread inside one cashier |
| Cost to get money out | 25% | A published fee per network, a low withdrawal floor and a payout window with a number in it | The word "instant" with no figure behind it |
| Whether your dollar stays a dollar | 20% | The stablecoin held natively, the account denominated in it, the offers priced in it | A conversion at the door, or a bitcoin default |
| What the operator publishes | 20% | Operating company, registration number, regulator, licence number and the identity clause | Publishing none of it |
| Bonus terms you can read | 10% | A stated multiple, a stated window, a readable cap and the ability to decline the offer | A headline percentage with no multiple anywhere |
Each of the five weights is to be applied in the same way to each of the ten casinos. Nothing in the scores is to be given for the size of the gaming lounge, the looks of the casino website, the number of software providers of gaming software to offer at the casino, or for how long the casino has been operating and offering games.
The one question every score answers
What is the cost of moving a dollar in through this casino, holding it in the casino, and moving it out again? Each of the weights above represents part of this question.
It is a narrow question on purpose
Plenty of sites will tell you which casino has the best live tables. This one answers a question those sites do not ask, and one that has no answer but one found on a screen behind a login, taking hours to read per casino.
Every input is published beside the score
Each review starts with the identity of the casino operator, followed by the per-rail floors, its withdrawal side and the terms of its bonuses.
The scores are topic-adjusted on money pages
Another score gives each casino a rating according to the subject of the page on which it appears. As the best TRC-20 casino is not the same as the best USDC casino, the score given to each casino on these pages can be higher or lower than the review score for that casino, and the page states why.
A high score is not a recommendation
It means that the casino answers the money question better than the others we have read. Whether or not you should be gambling at all is a separate question, and there is a responsible gambling page for that.
What we read before a score exists
No casino is scored from its payments page. The figures needed to score the casinos are only visible within their accounts, which is why there are ten casinos here and not fifty.
Each process takes one screen per coin per network. A cashier offering nine rails for Tether will take nine readings from the screen, one rail at a time, because the deposit screen shows a single rail and invites you to assume the rest match. At half the casinos on this site they do not. This rule came about because we once published BetFury as eight rails at a flat 1 USDT from a single screen, and sixteen screens later it was nine rails running from 0.1 on Polygon to 3 on Ethereum. Every table on the site was rebuilt after that.
The withdrawal side of the table is always read separately from the other information because the networks that casinos pay their winnings out on are not the same as the networks from which they take deposits. Razed accepts thirteen coins but pays out in eight. The bonus terms are from the operator's document, not the website's advertisement.
What we do not do is deposit money into any of these games to see what might happen. The only example of payout timing on this list has been performed on Razed, and the review states this outright. Everything else on the site is a published figure read off a screen, and it is labelled as such.
The full account of how the review is built, including the error that created the one screen per rail rule, is on the editor's page.
What NOT VERIFIED means on a scored page
This is the rule that does the most work on this site, though comparison tables quietly break it.
NOT VERIFIED is work we owe you
It means that the screen exists, but we have not read it. The cell remains empty until someone does. It is never populated with a number that could be considered plausible, an industry average, or one taken from somewhere else online.
Not published is a finding
It means that we looked at the screen very closely, but the casino operator did not state it. For example, both BC.Game and BetFury publish nothing about their payout speed, which is a fact about the two of them and it costs them marks here.
Silence is never read as good news
An unstated withdrawal fee is not a free withdrawal. An unstated confirmation threshold is not an instant credit. Where an operator says nothing on the website, the page says the operator says nothing.
A missing figure blocks a claim, never a page
The withdrawals comparison shipped with two operators' payout screens unread. It says so on the page, names them and scores the eight that it could read. Waiting for perfect data is how a withdrawal comparison table is never published.
Paperwork is why the best cashier on the roster finishes last. Mega Dice credits a player after one network confirmation, goes with their cheapest rail of 0.5 USDT, offers a 10 to 60 minute window for player withdrawals and holds balances in USDT. On the money, they are genuinely good at what they do. However, they reveal no operating company, no regulator or licence number for the entity. This takes most of a fifth of their score and places them last at 7.2. A cashier that can be read and a company that can't be named are two different products.
How affiliate deals affect the scores
They do not, and the ranking is arranged so you can check that for yourself.
This site earns from affiliate links. Clicking on the Play button to open an operator's account will often pay us a commission for that click; every page with such a link will state so at the footer of the page. None of the links touch the rating we provide operators' sites with. The ranking is not bought with the click commission, because several in the bottom half of the ranking pay the same as those at the top, and the casino we rank last is one we are paid to promote.
The deeper protection is that the scores are made up of published figures and no opinions. If the floor to deposit is 0.1 USDT against 20, that is not a matter of taste. Every number a score rests on is printed beside it, so if the ranking were ever bent the arithmetic would give it away.
We do not take payment for any of the following: a review, a position in a table, a change to a score, or for any operator who may read the pages before they go live. Any casino that has not yet been read will not be here. The number of casinos on this site is not a matter of convenience; ten are on the site because ten cashiers have been read.
Which sources a score is allowed to rest on
Two categories, and everything else is out. This is a shorter list than most sites in this market work from.
The operator's own screens and documents
The cashier, the payments page, the terms of service, the bonus terms and the footer. Where an operator states something we could not confirm elsewhere, the page attributes it to them and stops there.
Regulators, issuers and chain documentation
Anjouan's licence register, Circle's and Tether's transparency pages, ESMA's page on the European rules and the developer documentation from TRON, Ethereum and Solana. Every one of them is linked so you can read the sentence we used for yourself.
What is never a source
Another affiliate site, a casino directory, a review aggregator, a press release or the website's own marketing copy. Any figure that cannot be traced back to one of the screens that we reviewed for the site does not appear on this page.
And what is never written
Invented experience, invented review counts, star ratings with no working behind them, or a claim about testing that did not happen. Where this site says something was measured, it names what was measured and how.
Corrections, and how to send one
Every figure on this site has a shelf life. The operators will move the deposit floors, tweak the withdrawal fees, change the bonus offers or swap the pre-selected network, usually without announcing any of it.
The rule, then, is simple and it is to your advantage. If a number on this site disagrees with the cashier in front of you, the cashier is right. A reader looking at a live screen is a better source than a page written in August, and we would rather hear it than not.
The corrections will be published on the page itself with the date attached, and if a figure has changed materially the page will state what it used to say. No information will be edited quietly. This is for the same reason that the reviews have empty cells for the metrics that cannot be audited: if a page cannot be audited, it is not a page that can be used.
Please send a correction to theo@globalcasinospot.com, or use the contact page. A screenshot of the screen on which the information appeared and the date on which you saw it are all the information that we will require to process your correction.
Questions about the scoring
How are the casino scores on this site calculated? 
The five criteria used to rate a casino are what it costs to get money in (25%), what it costs to get money out (25%), whether your stablecoin stays a dollar (20%), the information the company publishes about itself (20%), and whether the bonus terms can be read before accepting them (10%). There will be no award for the design of their website, the number of games that they offer, or the name of the brand.
Do affiliate commissions change the scores?
No, and the ranking makes that checkable. Several casinos near the bottom of the table have the same cut as the casinos at the top of the rankings. The operator rated last on this site is one we are paid to promote. All figures used to calculate the score for each casino are published beside them so that readers can recreate the score for each operator themselves.
What does NOT VERIFIED mean on a review?
That we have not read that screen yet. This is different from an operator who refuses to publish something on their site, which is a finding in and of itself. Collapsing the two into one label is how comparison tables start lying, so this site keeps them apart and leaves the unread cells visibly empty.
Why does a casino with a great cashier score badly?
Because paperwork carries 20% of the score. Mega Dice may have some of the cheapest deposit economics in the pack, but they come in last at 7.2 because they publish no operating company, no regulator and no licence number.
Which outside sources does this site use?
Regulators, token issuers and the chains' own developer documentation, and nothing else. No attempt is made to use statistics from other websites, directories or press releases in this report. Any use of external information is linked to that source, allowing readers to review the original sentences, and skipping over the summaries we have written of those sources.
How often are the figures updated?
Every page includes the date on which it was last read. The operators will change floors, fees and defaults on them with no notice. If a figure here disagrees with the cashier standing before you, the cashier is right. Send us the difference and we will amend the page with the date attached.
The model, applied
These are the pages the weights above produced.
The ten reviews
Every casino review begins with the identity of the operator, followed by the per-rail floors, its withdrawal side and its bonus clause, in that order.
How the reading works
The twelve guides explain what each figure means when you stand at a cashier, and verifying your own deposit is how you check any of it without asking us.
Theo Brandt
I spent two years on the support side of a crypto payment processor, where every serious complaint traced back to a figure the business already knew and had never published. This page is the promise that this site does the opposite: the weights are fixed, the inputs are printed, and the cells we have not read stay empty until someone reads them.
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