A year of change, measured against a list that has been read once

Similarity on this site is a count with a denominator printed beside it, and the denominator is 74: the number of countries BitStarz names in its own restricted-territory clause, read live from the operator's terms on 26 August 2026.

One clause, one morning, one reading. That fact decides what this page can honestly claim.

What a single reading can and cannot report

A reading dated to a day reports a state. Two readings of the same document, both dated, report a change. This desk holds the first kind for every row in the table and the second kind for none of them.

So the question of what moved in the last twelve months has no answer here, and manufacturing one would mean comparing our reading against somebody else's undated summary — which is the failure mode the whole method exists to avoid.

What the reading did find is precise enough to be re-checked by anybody. The permit number OGL/2024/165/0185, the holder Gareton B.V., a register entry that resolved showing Active, a restricted-territory clause running to 74 names, and no figure anywhere for a verification threshold or a payout ceiling. The names themselves, grouped and counted, are on the 74.

Anyone holding an older dated copy of that clause can produce the comparison this page cannot.

The one thing here that is dated by somebody else

Every other figure in the table is the operator describing itself. The permit is not: it is an entry in a register kept by a third party, and it carries a series.

OGL/2024/165/0185 belongs to the 2024 series of the Curaçao Gaming Authority. That places the paperwork in time, and it places nothing else. A register entry and a set of terms have different authors and different revision cycles, so a 2024 permit sits comfortably alongside a bonus document last edited in 2025 and a territorial clause of unknown vintage.

Four rows here carry a registration from another authority in another format entirely, which makes the point visible: ALSI-202508056-FI2, issued by the Anjouan Gaming Board to Novatrix SRL.

Eleven numbers, seven of them different

The licence column is the thinnest column in the table, and thin in a specific way.

Twelve rows, eleven numbers printed, seven of them distinct. Vave carried no number in the reading of 25 August 2026 and a number in a second reading eight days later, and both readings stay on file with their dates.

Read the top line again, because it is the finding. Four brands with four names, four lobbies and four sets of bonus terms are one registration. A change at that level — a renewal, a lapse, a transfer — would move four rows of this table at once, and nothing visible on any of the four sites would have changed at all.

The same registration covers a fifth brand outside this table. What one shared permit does and does not prove about two brands is worked through on Slotum against BitStarz.

The row where a change has already happened

Bets.io prints OGL/2024/1178/0479, and the register entry consulted on 26 August 2026 reports that permit as revoked.

A permit that reads revoked was issued at some point reading otherwise, so something changed between those two dates. Neither this site nor the entry itself says when, and the row is printed as it was found rather than removed, because a revoked permit is a fact about an operator that a reader should have.

In the wider library of a hundred operators, five brands carry a revoked permit, and three of those five share one number between them. So even the changes that are visible arrive in clusters, for the same reason the table above does.

What a second pass would cost, and why it is not free

Answering the change question properly means re-reading, at minimum, the BitStarz clause of 74 names and the 29 lists that were measurable against it, then printing both dates on every count on the site. Twenty-one rows in the wider set of fifty carry nothing to compare and would need a further attempt at documents that did not open the first time.

That is the honest price of a change log, and it is the reason this site publishes a dated photograph instead of a claim about movement. Every count here expires; the date beside it is how a reader knows how far it has expired.

Until a second pass exists, the safest reading of anything on these pages is the narrow one: on 26 August 2026 the documents said this. What they say on the morning a reader opens them is a question the reader can settle in about two minutes, with the clause address printed beside every figure for exactly that purpose.