From a lira to a balance: the four legs

Nothing in this register takes a lira. Every cashier on the list takes a coin, which means a deposit from Turkey is never a single movement of money: it is a bank transfer, then a purchase, then a transfer across a network, and only then a balance. Four legs, four sets of conditions, four places the money can sit still. Reading a casino's terms tells you about the fourth one only. Plinko, and the two settings you control.

This is also why this site does not publish withdrawal times. A time measured end to end would be measuring the bank and the network as much as the cashier, and a time measured on the last leg alone would describe almost none of the wait. Neither was measured here, so neither is printed. Live tables, and the card on the door.

The first leg is between an account and a desk that sells coins. It is the leg this register knows least about, because it depends on a bank rather than on anything a casino publishes, and banks do not write terms per customer on a public page. What can be said plainly is that the fee and the delay on this leg belong to the bank, and that no cashier on this list has any say in either. Metaspins: what is written down.

1. 01
   The transfer leavesA domestic transfer, however the account makes them. The amount that arrives is the amount that left, minus whatever the bank charges.
2. 02
   The desk credits itThe balance appears at the exchange in lira, not yet as a coin. Nothing has been bought at this point.
3. 03
   A pair is chosenThis is where the lira becomes something else, and where the price of the whole route is decided.

The second leg is a purchase, and a purchase has a spread. Whatever is bought, the buy price and the sell price are not the same number, and the difference is the cost of the leg. It is usually larger than the network fee on the next leg and smaller than people expect — but it is a real cost and it is paid twice if the coin ever has to come back.

The third leg is the transfer itself, and the choice made on leg two decides what it costs. This is the point at which USDT stops being a fashionable coin and becomes an arithmetic convenience: it is the one thing on the route whose price does not move while the transfer is in flight. Buy a coin whose price moves, and the amount that arrives at the cashier is not the amount that left the exchange.

That is why the route block of this register asks one question before any other: does this cashier take USDT? 7 of the 7 cashiers opened from here do. The rest can still be reached, but only by carrying the price movement across the network yourself.

• The network, not the coin, sets the fee. The same stable coin can move across different networks at very different costs, and the cashier's deposit page names which ones it accepts.
• A wrong network loses the transfer. This is the single most expensive mistake on the whole route, and no cashier's support can reverse it.
• Confirmation time belongs to the network. It moves with traffic, not with anything the cashier does.

The last leg is the one this register can actually measure, because it is the only one with a written document behind it. The deposit page says which coins are taken; the terms say when documents are asked for. Both were read where they could be read, and where they could not, the field is blank rather than guessed at.

Every leg above runs in reverse on the way out, and one extra condition joins it: the verification clause. That clause is the reason this register quotes it in full rather than summarising it — it is the only part of the return journey written down in advance, and only 4 of the 12 records attach a figure to it.