How I rate crypto casinos

In this page, I will explain thoroughly my review methodology. What is the Trust Score and how it is calculated for each casino?

My name is Jake Saarijärvi and I come from Finland. I started my journey with Bitcoin in 2013 and have been reviewing crypto casinos since 2015. Read more about me here.

Review methodology – The short version

I use clever AI models to grab thousands of player experiences from Reddit about all the crypto casinos listed on this site. Then, I combine the Reddit sentiment to a simple Trust Score. The higher the better and the maximum is 100.

After that, I gather all the important facts about casinos. I write the reviews and verify the data by reading numerous Reddit threads myself.

The emphasis is on the Reddit sentiment, as I think that is the best way to find the most trusted crypto casino.

Of course, I visit and test all of the crypto casinos myself. However in my opinion, this “expert review” method is not the best system – especially reviewing quite abstract and complex things like crypto casinos. Read more about this thought below.

The result? My aim is to create the most objective and useful crypto casino review site there is. My website is not perfect, but I will improve the AI model continuously. All version updates will go to the bottom of this page.

My Promises to You:

• Transparent data: You see what the AI sees.
• Zero fake reviews: If a casino scams players, my algorithm tanks their score immediately. This might not please some casinos, but so be it – they need to do better.
• Finnish honesty: Yes, I do make money from affiliate links and this site is my business, but I will never manual-edit a score to please a casino.

If you want to know more about my review methodology, keep reading.

Review methodology – The long version

Let’s begin the long version with how almost all other crypto casino review sites work. This applies also to many review sites in general, but in my experience, crypto casino review sites are the worst – unfortunately.

Behind the scenes – How almost all of the crypto casino expert review sites work

In this chapter I will tell you everything I know about crypto casino review sites – based on my experience starting from 2015 when I launched my first crypto casino review site (which I don’t own anymore).

Overall, my casino affiliate site experience goes back to around 2011 – 2012 when I followed very closely my best friends’ journey to affiliate marketing. They founded their own casino review site (not in crypto however) and I watched them learning more and more.

Majority of the European casino review sites are run from Malta, which is a small island in the Mediterranean and known for it’s online casino industry. I still visit Malta now and then to visit my friends and get the latest insights from the field.

If you want to build a crypto casino review site from scratch, there’s a lot of work. You need a lot of web designers and content creators. You have to find your own angle and own niche.

But most importantly, you have to find the trust of the readers.

If you find that, your readers will start visiting your site more often and a longer time. Google will eventually pick that up and probably start to rank your site higher when people Google to find the best casino for them.

If you are lucky, you start making a lot of money from affiliate revenue.

The temptation arises

That’s the time when the casinos also notice, that your site is one of the major casino review sites. Casino affiliate managers start contacting you. They offer you very lucrative affiliate deals, that can be even double what the standard ones are.

But there’s a catch. The casinos never offer you free money. They want something. The casinos usually want for example a TOP 3 spot in the major casino listings. Or they want the #1 spot in a bonus page. All this in exchange for a better affiliate deal.

This can be very tempting for a casino review site owner. You have put in numerous hours and days, maybe even many years building the site. Now you have an offer where you can almost double your income.

But, if you agree, you compromise the trust of your readers. They may not notice anything during few months, but they may notice something if you casino listings change without any real facts changing.

Many sites have gone down and lost everything because of this. Trust me, I have seen plenty of examples of this when I make my regular competitor checks and how they rank on Google.

Like Abraham Lincoln said: “You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.”

If you go to Google and search for the 5 biggest crypto casino review sites, unfortunately some of them sell positions for exchange of a better affiliate deal. Some sites are more legit, but some sites are not. And it is very hard to notice this, as in 2026 almost all the major review sites look really professional and polished.

I really don’t want to downplay other people’s businesses, but this is just the way it is.

What is the problem with so called “expert review” sites?

I have nothing against so called “expert crypto casino reviewers”. They may know their stuff.

In my opinion, expert reviews work better with different things than casinos.

Personally, I trust an expert opinion in let’s say computer monitors (my favourite site: Displayninja), or for example in sports watches (my pick: DC Rainmaker). The reason is, that physical things are always the same, no matter who is using or testing them. If I just trust the reviewer, there is no variance in quality or how they work in monitors or sports watches. They will work exactly the same when the reviewer, or I am using them.

But, that’s not the same with casinos or especially crypto casinos.

If I test a casino thoroughly and everything works very well, this may not be the case with you. There are differences in KYC (I have a Finnish passport), and I cannot test how the casino would work from the US, Germany or from Africa or Asia, if they casino asked for identification documents.

Or, I cannot test all the casinos using high stakes (let’s say thousands of US dollars or a deposit of 0.1 BTC). I just don’t have the money to test 20 casinos using bigger amounts. And, if you are a high stakes player, you cannot know if the casino works well based on my so called expert review.

So this is the core problem when expert reviewing crypto casinos.

The solution is, that I am scraping the whole Reddit and other crypto forums (like Bitcointalk) and combine the results to this site. A thousand comments about a crypto casino is much much more valuable than just one expert review.

I hope this makes sense, and I would be happy to hear your opinion to the bottom of this page!

All in all, I want to always focus on good things, so let’s continue on how my site is different than other review sites.

How my site is different

I am here to change the culture in crypto casino review sites. My casino rankings are only based on objective player sentiment in Reddit and other forums like Bitcointalk.

My site is a one man project, where I create everything (including the design and content). My only help is my wife, who proof-reads all the text and does important fact-checking.

In my opinion I can’t compete with the bigger “expert review” in their game. Big sites may have 10 or even 20 content creators, and 5 persons doing SEO alone. That’s very difficult to beat with a one-man project.

My only edge is to gain the trust of readers and do things differently. If people start trusting my site more and more, I will make also more money (yes I am honest about this).

I put 4-8 hours to this website every single workday, so I call this site my job. Money is not the most important thing to me right now, but my goal is to get at least my living expenses as a reward from this site.

I don’t know if this pays off, but like I said, my goal is to be the most objective and useful crypto casino review site there is. Let’s see how it turns out!

How the Reddit Sentiment turns into a Trust Score

I got the idea for this kind of an AI assisted review site back in 2023. But, then AI wasn’t good enough to crawl Reddit and forums in a very trustworthy way.

Today, things are different. I use only the most powerful (and most expensive) AI tools and they do a surprisingly good work fetching the player sentiment on Reddit.

My AI prompt is quite complicated. But in a nutshell it works like this:

The Sentiment Phase:

• I fetch all valid positive and negative comments from Reddit and other forums like Bitcointalk about a certain crypto casino.
• The AI filters away any comment that is too short, probably made by a bot, has low karma, low effort or in any way looks like spam.
• The result is legit comments from the last 24 months (730 days). This is enough to get a good amount of data, but the timeframe is not too long if the casino’s reputation has changed over time for instance.
• I have many override models to improve the model. If the comments on Reddit are very biased to negative during the last 7 or 30 days, that overrides the score instantly to 10 / 100 (which gets the “avoid” label to that casino). This prevents casinos that have had a good reputation in Reddit making a rug pull or an exit scam, as it would show in the scores almost right away.

The Math Phase:

• I don’t just calculate a simple percentage from positive comments. If a casino has only one review, and it’s positive, that would give the casino a score of 100%. That’s not very useful.
• Instead, I use a Bayesian Score formula. This “weights” the results, so a casino has to earn its high score through a high volume of real player experiences.
• So, the Trust Score is calculated as a Bayesian Score = 100 x ((P + 8) / (T + 20)).
• P (Positive) = The count of valid positive comments.
• T (Total) = The total count of all valid comments (Positive + Negative).

Breaking the formula down:

• The Bayesian Score means, that each casino starts with an imaginary 8 positive comments and 20 total comments. This way, if a casino has 0 positive and 0 negative comments in Reddit, it gets a starting score of 40 (Average).
• Once again, if some casino would have only 3 positive comments and 0 negative comments, it can’t get a score of 100 / 100. In this case, the sample is too small and more proof is needed for a good score.
• Why 8 and 20? For now, I think this sets a perfect balance that also smaller and newer casinos have the opportunity to score well, but they still have to earn the reputation with enough positive comments. The starting “wall” is not too big, but still higher Trust Scores are achievable for a casino that has a good reputation online.
• In a nutshell, each casino has to earn the good score by having a lot of legit positive comments on Reddit.
• For example a casino that has 125 valid positive comments, and 50 valid negative comments (so a total of valid 175 comments) would have a Trust Score of 100 x ((125 + 8) / (175 + 20)) = 68.2 (Trusted). See the Trust Score formula one below in an easier to read format.

Where P = Valid positive comments count and T = Valid total comments count. Version 1.0.

So what Trust Score really means?

After my analysis, each casino has a Trust Score ranging from 0 – 100. Here are the score labels and classes:

It turned out my rating system is really strict. It would make no sense if the rating system would flag all casinos as untrustworthy. So, I edited the scale to as useful as possible.

Right now, even the best crypto casinos will get a score little over 70. And I think that is a good thing.

To differentiate the best, average and worst casinos, I made the trusted class to start from 65 and so on. I may edit this in the future, but the Trust Score version 1.0 goes like this.

All in all, the Trust Score will tell, which casino is the best and most trusted among Reddit (and other forums) players. And that is the ultimate result we all are trying to find, right?

Future goals – There’s a lot of room to improve among crypto casinos

If the best crypto casino scores just little over 70, there is a lot of room for the casinos to improve.

Maybe some casino will pick this up, and start to change their reputation on Reddit and other places online? What if some casino answered to all critique and took the negative player experiences seriously?

In the long run, that casino will win the game and win the players to their side.

Final step – Verification by Wife

So that you don’t have to trust only my data search and my opinions, all reviews are verified by my wife, Johanna.

The verification is a real, independent process. She uses one of the most advanced generative AI tools available to run the same sentiment analysis on the same casino, but with a different tool. Basically, we do the analysis twice. We happen to be fans of totally different AI tools, which is a good thing, as the trustworthiness of the verification increases by that a lot.

Sometimes our scores differ slightly

Sample size and tool variation are usually the culprit. A different AI tool with a fresh search can surface a different set of comments from the same sources. So, the valid comment pool can differ even when the methodology is identical.

A larger comment pool smooths out the natural negativity bias of online feedback. A smaller sample tends to reflect community forum culture, where critical voices dominate.

What matters most is whether the core findings align. If both analyses independently flag the same points, trust the pattern. If not, we have to think why the findings don’t match and what’s the reason behind it.

The verification box made independently by my wife can be found on the bottom of each individual review. I have no control what she wants to say about each casino.

(Don’t tell her, but she is sometimes stubborn, and that’s a good thing here.)

Final thoughts

So, this is my review methodology in a nutshell. I hope you find this site trustworthy among all other crypto casino review sites out there.

I would be happy to hear thoughts about my site and this review methodology in general! Is there anything that could make this site better and more trustworthy?

You can reach me via email, X social media or through the official cryptocasinos.ai Reddit thread.

Trust Score – Version updates

Version 1.0 (January 23, 2026) – The launch of the site. Bayesian Trust Score formula: 100 x ((P + 8) / (T + 20)).