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Our planned tip proofing service: tips timestamped before kick-off at available odds, full history, nothing deleted, so profit claims can finally be checked.
"This is our profit." Almost every tipster site says it. Almost none can prove it. Tip proofing is our plan to change that: a way to check a site's profit claim against its full, timestamped history, so that trust rests on evidence instead of screenshots.
Status: coming soon. If you run a tipster site or a tipping service and want to be among the first, register your interest.
The tips market is rightly distrusted, and the reasons are familiar:
Any one of these can turn a losing record into a "profitable" one on paper.
We want a tip to be checkable at the level of the individual selection. When a site publishes a profit figure, anyone should be able to trace it back through every tip that produced it, win or lose, and confirm each was made before the match at a price that was really on offer.
We already hold ourselves to this standard. Our own tips are recorded at the real bookmaker odds available at the time and then sealed, and no bet is ever deleted. You can see the principle in action in how our tips work. Tip proofing extends that discipline to other sites.
The service is being designed around four rules.
A tip only counts if it was lodged before the match began. The timestamp is recorded when the tip is submitted, not when the site chooses to publish or update it.
Each tip is logged with the bookmaker odds available at that moment. Prices that cannot be matched to what was on offer at the time are flagged rather than accepted at face value.
Every submitted tip stays in the history permanently, winners and losers alike. A record with gaps is not a proof, so removal is not possible.
Results are settled on a clear, consistent basis: the 90-minute result, with voids handled openly. The same rules apply to every submitter, which is how our own record works too.
From that full history, profit, loss and return on investment can be calculated and checked, rather than simply claimed.
Our founder has more than 30 years' experience in gambling and probability, and the site has a long record of honest, fair play, from running public tipster competitions with real prizes and settled outcomes to keeping a sealed, undeleted history today. Read our story for the background. Tip proofing is one of the main goals on our future plans page.
Tip proofing is not open yet, and details such as format and pricing are still being worked out. To be told when it launches, or to help shape it, contact us with your site name and what you would like to prove.
Proof that a record is genuine is not a promise that it will continue. Past results, even verified ones, do not guarantee future returns, and betting carries risk. Please read our responsible gambling page, and head back to the about hub to see everything else we stand for.