Bovada withdrawal speed in 2026 — is it back to normal yet?

[fastpay frank]

Tracking thread for anyone still using Bovada as their primary US-friendly book. From Oct 2025 through Jan 2026 they had a stretch where check-by-courier payouts were running 11-14 business days and the BTC payouts went from 1 hour to 6+ hours for verified accounts. A lot of folks on Reddit and the affiliate forums were calling it the end of the road.

Did a payout test this week: $850 BTC withdrawal from a 4-year verified account. Approved in 22 minutes, on-chain in 41 minutes total. That's roughly back to their 2023-2024 normal range. Bovada also seems to have un-paused the courier check option which was offline through most of Q4 2025.

Anyone else tracking? Want to see if my data point holds across multiple accounts. If they're truly back to normal that changes the math on a few of my comparisons.

[payoutanalyst rex]

Confirming — pulled $1,200 BTC last Friday afternoon, approved in 17 minutes, settled in 38. Two prior cashouts in April were similar (24 min and 31 min approval times). The wallet activity pattern suggests they did a hot wallet reorganization in late February. Probably tied to whatever caused the Q4 delay.

They're not quite at their 2023 peak speed but the 4-6 hour range is gone for now.

[newbie nadia chi]

Brand new to BTC withdrawals — when you say "approved in 17 minutes" does that mean it's already broadcast on-chain at 17 minutes or does "approved" mean it's in their internal queue and broadcast happens after? Just trying to learn how to read this stuff.