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| license: cc-by-4.0 |
| language: |
| - en |
| pretty_name: Greenfelt Payment Method Reality Index |
| size_categories: |
| - 1K<n<10K |
| tags: |
| - payment-methods |
| - online-casinos |
| - ireland |
| - withdrawals |
| - consumer-research |
| configs: |
| - config_name: default |
| data_files: payment-method-reality.csv |
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| # Greenfelt Payment Method Reality Index: listed, observed and timed casino payment methods in Ireland |
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| For every casino on Greenfelt's roster (53 casinos), three separate layers of payment evidence, kept apart on purpose: |
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| 1. **Listed by the operator**: what the casino's own public pages list. |
| 2. **Seen in our cashier**: what Greenfelt's logged-in Irish cashier showed. |
| 3. **Timed by us**: a deposit or withdrawal Greenfelt actually made. |
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| The order is how strongly each is known. It is not a score and not a ranking, and the layers are never merged into a single "available" value. |
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| - Index page: <https://greenfelt.ie/payment-method-reality/> |
| - Press page: <https://greenfelt.ie/press/payment-method-reality/> |
| - Citable archive (DOI): <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23695873> |
| - Publisher: Greenfelt.ie, Ireland. Dataset v1.0, methodology v1.0, generated 2026-10-16. |
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| ## Coverage at this version |
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| - Operator information read: 51 of 53 casinos (2 not captured). |
| - Cashier observations: 107 records at 49 casinos. A casino without one is "not yet observed", never "not available". |
| - Timed withdrawals: 113 at 51 casinos. Credited deposit tests at 28 casinos. |
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| ## Files |
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| | File | Description | |
| |---|---| |
| | `payment-method-reality.csv` | One row per casino x method x direction, all three layers | |
| | `payment-method-reality.json` | The same matrix, every operator observation, every published cashier observation, the discrepancies and the dictionary | |
| | `payment-method-reality-README.txt` | Full data dictionary | |
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| ## Absence is not one thing |
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| - **Not captured**: we could not read the casino's public information. |
| - **Nothing published**: we read it and it publishes no usable method information. |
| - **Not listed**: a published list omits the method. |
| - **Not yet observed**: we have not looked at that cashier yet. |
| - **Not shown**: we looked and the method was not shown. This describes that account at that moment; it is not "the casino does not offer it". |
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| ## Rules |
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| - Records are append-only. A change is a new observation; history is kept. |
| - Only a native-route timed withdrawal counts as "timed" on a rail. A card push or a bridge into an account is reported as its route. |
| - Recalled cashier observations are labelled recalled and carry no screenshot. |
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| ## Disclosure |
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| Greenfelt.ie is an affiliate publisher and earns commission from some of the operators in this dataset. |
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| ## Licence and citation |
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| CC BY 4.0. Cite as: Greenfelt.ie, "Payment Method Reality Index", dataset v1.0, methodology v1.0. https://greenfelt.ie/payment-method-reality/ (DOI 10.5281/zenodo.23695873). |
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