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A label, read literally

Bitcoin casino processing: whose queue the word describes

Processing is a word the cashier uses about itself. It describes the cashier's queue, the checks the operator runs and the number of additions to the shared record it wants to see before it treats a deposit as final. It is not a stage of the transfer, and nothing in it is open to the sender.

Reading it that way settles most of the anxiety around a deposit that has not shown up yet, because the transfer stopped being negotiable at an earlier point than the one the label suggests.

A cashier queue beside a sequence of confirmed blocks

Two queues that share one label

The first is the network's: a transfer waits to be written into a block, and then further blocks are added on top of it. Each addition makes it more settled. The second belongs entirely to the operator: it may review a deposit, hold it behind an account check, or simply wait for its own threshold.

A cashier showing processing may be describing either or both, and the screen rarely says which. What it never describes is a state in which the payment can be stopped, because by the time anything appears on the cashier's side the sender has already lost the ability to interfere.

The fee, in one place

A transfer carries a fee for the network, chosen by the sending wallet at the moment of signing and paid to the network rather than to the casino. Once signed, it is fixed. How that fee is chosen and why the amount arriving can be smaller than the amount sent is the subject of the companion site, and this page leaves it there.

What waiting is worth, and what it is not

Waiting is the correct response to processing, with one exception: if the transaction id shows a block and the balance has not moved after a long interval, the coins arrived and the bookkeeping did not, which is the single case where writing to support is the right move.

Everything before that point is the operator being careful, and the operator has the same reason for care that the reader has. Whatever it sends, it cannot take back either.

Short answers

What does processing mean on a deposit?

That the cashier has seen the transfer and is waiting for its own threshold to be met. The transfer itself is already settled.

Does processing mean a payment can still be stopped?

No. The word describes the cashier's queue, not a window in which the sender can act.

Who decides the fee on a transfer?

The sending wallet, at the moment of signing. It is paid to the network rather than to the casino, and it is fixed once the transfer is signed.

Why read the figures before sending rather than after?

Because afterwards there is nothing to adjust. The amount that will arrive is decided by what was signed.

Related pages

Pages that follow from this one.

Payment gone wrong — the exception to waiting, and the three cases where waiting changes nothing

Withdrawal records — what to have in hand when the wait runs long

Payments — how the twelve operators document their own cashiers

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Where to find support

Gambling Therapy — run by Gordon Moody — free support for anyone affected by gambling, in thirty-four languages, reached by email at help@gordonmoody.org.uk. Gamblers Anonymous — an international fellowship — keeps a directory of meetings, including meetings held outside the United States.

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