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Alex Donovan, Lead Reviewer & Founder
Alex Donovan is a senior iGaming analyst with more than eight years covering crypto casinos, payments and player protection. Before founding Stake Alternatives, Alex was a staff writer at PokerNews (2017-2022) and Casino Reports (2022-2024), and worked in QA at a licensed platform operator, which is where the habit of testing everything rather than trusting a press kit started.
Alex deposits real crypto at the casinos on this site, times every withdrawal, verifies provably-fair games hash by hash, and documents the cons as carefully as the pros. The goal is the review site Alex wished existed when he was losing money on games he did not understand: honest, tested, and independent of the affiliate deals that fund it.
Areas of expertise
- Crypto casinos and Bitcoin gambling
- Provably-fair game verification (SHA-256 seed and hash checking)
- Cryptocurrency payments and withdrawal-speed testing
- No-KYC and anonymous gambling, and where verification really triggers
- Offshore gaming licensing (Curaçao, Anjouan) and its limits
- Casino bonus terms, wagering requirements and max-cashout traps
- Responsible-gambling frameworks and self-exclusion tools
How to reach the team
Corrections, questions and tips are welcome, and we take factual accuracy seriously. Use our contact page to reach the editorial team. To understand how Alex scores a casino, see how we rate, and for our sourcing and independence rules, our editorial policy.