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Hi folks,

I'd like to let you know about our new Bitcoin sports betting site www.blockbet.net (http://www.blockbet.net) and invite you to try out sports betting with us.

We've been working really hard on the site these past few weeks and while there's still a lot of work to be done, I'm happy to say that betting works as intended, and while the interface isn't anything fancy, it should at least be clear and simple to use. We update our selections and odds many times per day, as well as handle payouts quickly.

We don't ask our customers to register, and we're not interested in holding on to their bitcoins. You make a bet using the easy to understand form, pay your bet to the provided address, and if your bet wins you get paid directly to your (or any) Bitcoin wallet. I believe that our betting odds are quite fair in comparison to many other sportsbooks around the Internet and competition can only be good for the industry.

At the moment we have NBA, NFL and NHL games and European football leagues, as well as international competitions. I know there's a lot of suspicion towards new Bitcoin businesses, so people feel free to start betting at 0.001 BTC to see how it works and never bet any more than you can afford to. I hope you guys take a moment to have a look around the site, and we would definitely love to hear your feedback through the Contact Us form or this forum.

There are a lot of Americans on this forum, are you familiar with the decimal odds that we use? It's very simple, you just multiply your bet with your odds to get your possible winnings, like 3 BTC * 2.10 = 6.30 BTC. You should also note that we always list the home team first, this is so that we have a universal system that applies to all games on the site.

We're open to requests about which leagues you would like to see, but at the moment we're focused on bringing you all the games from the biggest leagues around the world. We want to establish the core functionality first and then slowly add features without breaking anything, so stay tuned for updates and if you have any ideas they're more than welcome!

I'm here to answer your questions and talk about whatever. We hope that you like our site and we're very excited to be taking your bets!

-Paul from BlockBet.net (http://BlockBet.net)

[edit] Update April 21, 2013:

Alright guys, I think the time time has come for me to retire Blockbet. Obviously with the NBA and NHL heading into the playoffs and soccer leagues with their summer breaks, there will be less games to cover over the summer, and I've made nothing but losses on baseball up to this point.

It's been a great experience and a lot of fun, but it's also been a full-time job with no days off, so a small break from everything will be welcome. Also the sportsbook game is a lot more crowded than it used to be, and let's face it, some of these new guys can offer more features than we do. I knew from the start that it won't take too long for guys with more technical knowledge and more time to invest to come along, and I wish nothing but good luck for them. The sportsbooks offerings are now a lot stronger that what they used to be, and I'm glad to have been a part of that process.

I'm gonna stay involved with Bitcoin, I have a lot of faith in the currency. I also have a couple of other ideas that I want to work on, and I can't do that with Blockbet taking so much of my time at the moment. Hopefully one of those ideas will some day become bigger than what Blockbet could ever dream of being!

I'll get to work on payouts from yesterday in a moment. Outstanding NBA bets (playoff series starting later today) will be returned. After that I'll probably shut down the site (server rent is almost finished anyway) and lock the thread.

It's been a crazy ride with a lot of ups and downs, peaks and valleys, and a valuable learning process. So with that, I want to thank everybody for their support. Thanks for playing!

-Paul

Update: Site is now closed. Thank you for your support.

We got our first bet and first winner last night, somebody put 7.00 BTC on Miami Heat to win with -7.5 points, and came away with 13.44 BTC. Miami won the game 128 - 99.

Also we got a request for NFL spreads, we've got them now for todays games and all future NFL games.

Very cool. Hope it goes well. I was thinking an exchange. in this format would be interesting. Good luck and dont get buried....

Do you have future plans on adding teasers, parlays, or proposition bets? If so, I am willing to risk countless BTC.

You might want to submit your site to Mem's list:

mem's BITCOIN GAMBLING LIST
- http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=75883.0

We will likely implement two, maybe three selection parlays soon. We probably can't do more because we can't afford to pay gigantic wins if they hit. Also the players will have to calculate the complete odds of parlays themselves. Teasers we can't do at the moment.

We may sometimes have proposition bets but not for every game. We try to pick the most interesting games and players for those. For example, this weekend in soccer we had Van Persie to score (he did) and Messi to score a hat trick (he scored only once). For the Super Bowl and similar events we will certainly have many different bets available.


Thanks for the tip, will do that.

Awesome! I've made my first bet today, and I will be betting a lot more!

Can you get Asian Handicap odds for soccer matches?

We've got plans to do -0.5, -1.5, -2.5, +0.5, +1.5, +2.5 handicaps for some games, depends on the games. Those odds will be posted closer to game starts. We probably won't do quarter handicaps at the moment.

We now have more proposition bets, for example you can bet on LeBron James to score over 26 points tonight or Cristiano Ronaldo to score a goal tomorrow. NHL season will start this saturday and German Bundesliga will resume this week, and there is also the Africa Cup of Nations starting this weekend. So we have a lot of action coming up!

Tennis? There's games every day, i would start using it more.

Do you plan on having spreads/totals for NCAA Basketball?

We'd like to cover NCAA and tennis games, but for the moment we'll maintain our current selection plus the three leagues we're adding this weekend (NHL, Bundesliga, Africa Cup of Nations). We want to make sure that we don't miss any games from those leagues before adding more. Tennis in particular is problematic because games are played throughout the day and announced match start times usually aren't anywhere close to actual start times. We could probably do major tennis finals, semi- and quarterfinals but no promises on those yet. Also we're still looking into Asian handicaps for soccer.

We've been receiving more bets each day, so I want to thank those already betting with us and encourage more players to give us a try!

Pinnacle isnt even hanging NCAA totals except for big TV games.

Good stuff.  I will be placing some bets soon.

5dimes, and other high-quality sportsbooks do, however. I was just wondering.

We now support parlay bets of up to 3 selections, you simply separate your selections with a comma, for example: 1,18,63

Parlay odds can be calculated by multiplying selection odds, for example 1.55 * 2.10 = 3.255. Parlays have to be from one league and different games. This is not the optimal solution but it works for now. We'll continue to work on the site and make it more accessible.

There should be a way to review a bet after placing it. I just placed a tiny wager on the heat tonight and have no way of knowing if I even made the right selection.

Bet selection and bet size are now displayed after submission. Thanks for the suggestion!

I can confirm that there is one submission for Miami to win with -2.5 tonight.

Perfect. One more thing, the pay address came up as an image on my iPad. I wasnt able to copy it,
I had to manually type it into my wallet.

Have you though about an NCAA bracket pool?

We've updated the site with a more modern look, as well as made many smaller adjustements around the site (and will continue to do so). I think it looks much cleaner now, and the information is easier to find. What do you think?

Of course the NHL season is now here, and we've got plans to cover every game played. You can bet on winners, handicaps, and total goals scored, and we'll have more soon, such as Player Specials for the NHL (Crosby to Score, anyone?).

Sorry for the delay in answers to these...


That's a shame, but unfortunately I don't really know how to work around that problem. You could store the Bitcoin address for the league you want to play on your Bitcoin software so you don't have to type it every time you make a bet. Just make sure that it hasn't changed from time to time (though it will still come through).


Thought about it yes, we'll possibly have it in the future but can't make any promises at the moment.

How come there's no NFL Pro Bowl odds up? Nor do I see the Super Bowl props you said you were going to have.

Has anybody considered offering reduced juice? Possibly even one VIG FREE game of the week? That would be quite the promotion!

We originally didn't plan to cover Pro Bowl, but we do have a few odds for it now. Super Bowl odds will be coming next week.


That might be too good of a promotion. I don't mind doing coin-flips for a few bitcoins, but if we offered that to all our customers, that could become very expensive for us very quickly, assuming that bets don't distribute evenly.

Posting sports lines isn't an exact science, that's why there has to be some vig involved to ensure that we won't go out of business. Overall I think many of our odds are already much better than our competitors, for example NBA handicaps and over/unders are generally at 1.92/1.92, Player Specials at 1.91/1.91, as far as I know no other sportsbook offers odds that good.

The best promotion I can offer at the moment is that we've upped the NBA score odd/even to 1.99/1.99 for a limited time. So a 1 BTC bet wins 1.99 BTC. That's a better return on investment than Satoshidice, if you just want to give our site a try.

Ya the -108 juice on NBA is very good. Can I recommend/request Moneyline NHL? Ie OT included. This is the standard bet type for North American gamblers.

I noticed you don't have real time lines. If you needed a feed just sign up at pinnacle sports and request an API key in the settings. You can query their API once every 5 seconds for an XML odds set.

Other suggestions would be a way to do multiple single bets all at once. You might even consider a login/deposit akin to that done by bitcoinvideopoker.com. Also option to make odds display in -110 style.

Good luck.

A solution to your tennis problem is to just to stop odds at the beginning of each session. >.<

Site update: Betting with Bitcoin doesn't get any easier than this!

We've overhauled our betting process, and gone are the forms and numbers of the earlier version. Now, all games and selections have unique Bitcoin addresses, all you have to do is send your bet to the appropriate address, and your bet is automatically registered. Your winning bets will be paid back to the sending address, so please make sure that you can accept bitcoins there (some eWallets can't). Feel free to try it with small amounts first to see how it works.

Also, guys, thanks for the suggestions. NHL games now have Moneyline selections as well. We are trying to come up with an easy way to display American odds, but for now there is a simple bet calculator that you can use to see how much any bet can win. Tennis will hopefully be added in the future. We're committed to improving the site, and while there is still a lot of work to be done, I think we're heading for the right direction with each update.

Oh, and we've got plenty of bets already available for the Super Bowl. Winner? Number of touchdowns? Longest field goal? Interceptions? Most Valuable Player?

This means no parlays? D:

We wanted to simplify the betting process into as few steps possible (just one step actually), so unfortunately that was one of the compromises we had to make. However I do have a couple of ideas on how we could make parlays work, so hopefully we'll have them back soon!

As a new feature we have some "Mixed Doubles / Triples" on the front page, you may find some interesting combinations with good odds there in the meanwhile.

There is now also a simple odds converter that can be used to convert decimal odds into American odds, hopefully that will make the odds seem a bit clearer. I also manually posted American odds to the Super Bowl, but we can't do that to every game.

About the parlays/teasers, if you had the vig at -110, it would be the same odds as Vegas or any other sports betting website would be. Obviously for MLs or props you can't have -110, but if totals/spreads you can. Just a suggestion.

BlockBet's main competitor is just a Pinnacle clone.  No one needs two Pinnacle clones, so it would be a competitive mistake for BlockBet to go that route.

Super Bowl Sunday was a busy day for us, with over 50 bets placed and a total of over 170 BTC paid to the winners. Big thanks to the players and congrats to all the winners! Make sure to check out our selection of games for the NBA, NHL and other leagues while you wait for the next NFL season to start  ;)

Also I'd like to kindly remind people about our maximum bet size of 10 BTC, and that we maintain the right to void bets that go over that amount. I'm glad to see people are excited about Bitcoin betting and that they have such confidence in their favorite teams, but we've been getting bets of 20, 25, 30 BTC to single selections, and given the current exchange rate, that's a bit too much for us. This limit is for the players benefit, we want to make sure that all winners can get paid, even if they win all their bets. Thanks for understanding, hopefully we can raise the maximum bet size soon.

When you are a bookie, it is not a competitive mistake to have lines that are sharp.

Parlay bets are back! NBA and NHL pages have separate Bitcoin addresses for parlay bets and all game outcomes are numbered, as before.

Parlay bets can have up to three selections from different games from a league. You specify your selections as double digits at the end of your bet. Parlay bet odds are calculated by multiplying all selection odds together.

Examples:

Selections 03,08 for 1 bitcoin = 1.00000308 BTC
Selections 11,23,70 for 0.1 bitcoin = 0.10112370 BTC

Do you think that's easy enough? It's probably not the optimal solution, but I wanted to make it as fast and easy as possible without messing with forms any more. It's also important that it works as a single payment.

There's plenty of NHL action tonight, so give it a try!

Woo! Awesome to see parlays are back! Kind of a weird way to have it, but it gets the job done. I'll try it out tonight on some NBA.

American odds are now available for all the games and outcomes. Let me tell you, that wasn't easy! Note that American odds are rounded numbers, payouts are still based on decimal odds, but the differences either way are very minimal.

Also once more a reminder about the maximum bet amounts, we've been getting some very large bets from the same source recently, so bets are only accepted up to 10 BTC per selection per player, anything more than that will be voided and returned.

Champions League games and UFC have been added to our selection, with more to come. I think we'll also have some specials bets for tomorrow's Real Madrid - ManU game, should be a very interesting match!

is payout automatic?  Why does it take 12 hours to send out winnings?

It takes up to 12 hours. I've done around 50 bets thus far. Some get back in 5 minutes, but there's been one time where it took around 10 hours.

the games I bet on have finished....and its been 2 hrs....

bit365.eu paid up 5 mins after the game finalized.....

Payment is not automatic. This is why it sometimes takes 5 minutes, sometimes 2 hours, sometimes 12 hours. This is mentioned on our front page. You have to understand that we cannot be handling payouts 24 hours a day because people need to eat and sleep too.

If you're talking about yesterday's Champions League games, the payment was done in 10 hours after the games had finished. I understand that people can get worried about their bitcoins, but please be patient. We process payments always as soon as possible, there is no reason for us to withhold payments for any time.

It is nice that you are in here explaining to me why you are unable to process my payment from tonights games.........thanks.

Try to understand that we get a lot of bets each day and night. Those payouts don't happen in a matter of seconds and there may be delays in the Bitcoin network as well. I have now processed all of yesterday's NBA and NHL bets in about 6 hours after the earliest match ended, so I don't think that time frame is unreasonable by any means.

OK.  I was under assumption that it was automatic.

Oh, I wish it was automatic, that would make my life so much easier! But there are so many modifiers involved and possible exploits, so I don't know if that's possible to do at the moment. I do agree that in general terms we can, and we should, make our payouts even faster.

The idea behind the 12-hour payment is that, no matter what happens, we can process payments at least twice a day, and not give people unrealistic expectations. According to my recollection, we have never taken 12 hours to complete payments, and 10 hour delays have now happened twice, usually payouts are much faster than that. When it comes to the NBA and NHL, we prefer to process those games all at the same time once the last game has finished.

If you look at traditional sportsbooks, they usually credit your account pretty quickly, so that you can make another bet. But if you want to spend that money elsewhere, you first have to make a withdrawal request that can take days to complete. So in that sense I think our 12-hour policy is quite good to the players.

An odd question, but do you think you'll have anything for the NBA All-Star weekend? I'd like to bet the Rising Stars game tomorrow, and it's always fun to put a few bucks down on the competitions.

Yeah, we'll have the Rising Stars game up early tomorrow and we'll also cover the main game. Not sure that we can do the other competitions but in any case, you'll see the games posted on our front page once they become available.

This is why I love you guys!

Nice to hear :) Rising Stars game is now online, as is the actual All Star game that's on Sunday. You can also bet on the MVP of the main game. And don't forget about the weekend's NHL games, we've reduced the juice for a bit to get more action there since the NBA regular season is having a break!

There was initially a mixup between East and West teams, it has now been fixed. Unfortunately that meant that we had to void and refund one bet that was already placed for the All Star game. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Have you guys put in any consideration of adding college basketball games? I know totals aren't found on some sportsbooks, but most have spreads.

Sorry for the delay. I think we are able to add more leagues to our selection, so the question is... what or which leagues? I know NCAA basketball is very popular, but like you said I can't guarantee that all games and selections will be available every night. I'll take a look into it anyway.

Don't forget NBA returns tonight with 9 games, we'll have those odds online very soon!

[edit] Forgot to mention that we've added more goal and goal scorer selections to our Champions League games!

Arsenal is going to get embarrassed today

Bettors certainly seem to think so. Glad to see more interest towards "traditional" football!

How about something like games only on national television? That wouldn't be too hard, and that's the games most people bet.

Arsenal-Munich ended a few minutes ago and winnings already on their way, cool. Think I'll be using you guys more often.

blockbet.net works nicely.  However, one big complaint.

You need to use a different address for each match.  I am using the bitcoin wallet and when I send coins, the label part is auto filling in because I have labeled that address already.  This is very annoying as it makes keeping track of your wagers in the transaction log more time consuming.   

Other then  that it is pretty good so far! 

Now, if you would get NHL Team totals, first to score prop and puck line then I would not need to bet anywhere else. Currently bit365 offers NHL team totals and more options then blockbet :(

just to make sure i'm doing the parlay right, say I want BTC.2 on options 31 and 50, the amount to send would .20003150, right?

Yeah that could be one way to do it. Just don't want people to get disappointed if their game isn't playable. We're updating the site again, so let's see if we can add that.


Yes, this is the downside of our system. It's not really possible for us to create 100+ new bitcoin addresses every day because it takes a lot to maintain them.


We're adding more goal selections to the NHL today. However I don't think it's smart for us to try to add every option just because somebody else is doing it too, we try to stick to the most popular bets and avoid cluttering up the site.


Yes, but we didn't get such a bet yesterday. Instead we had 0.20000315, which was read as "03, 15" and that bet didn't win. Another bet was 0.2000055, which seems to include only one selection. I'll refund both of these for now. I know the system is a bit complicated but that's the cost for not needing an account to play.

Thanks for the feedback everyone, keep playing!

[edit] Wait a minute, maybe it's just my client that cut off the last zero on that parlay selection. In that case it's a winning bet!

I see I got credited for it, thought I screwed it up somehow. The last zero got cut off because of the .001 transaction fee I'm gonna guess. Any way around this to avoid confusion?

 It'd be sweet if the Bundesliga and Serie a leagues were added if/when economically feasible.

will the wager still get thr  if i send it  a couple minutes  b4  deadline

yes.  The wagers time is recorded by the bitcoin clients wallet. The transaction can be verified at blockchain.info.

Yes, in general, but we recommend users pay at least the default transaction fee when making late bets. Our official rule is that a bet needs to have at least one confirmation before match start (or at least soon after it). This doesn't usually take more than a couple of minutes to happen.

There have been a few cases when we've got very large bets hours afterwards, even after a match had ended, and there is currently no way to check for possible double spending on these, so those bets have to be voided for security reasons.

We hope we can add at least Bundesliga soon to our selection. We've rearranged our site, offering more bets, but for the moment that also means that parlay bets are offline due to the increased number of bet options. Maybe our parlay system wasn't really good enough to begin with anyway.

man barca looked like shit. good to hear about bundes

It's late enough in the College hoops season that it might be worth waiting till the tournament opens up to start hosting bets.

Why do you say that? As a bookie, in the long run he's going to make money from it no matter what. More games equals more chances to win money.

It would be an interesting experiment allowing him to see what teams generate betting interest and the tournament cuts the number of teams down to a more manageable size. In think part of the problem with going full bore on College Basketball is there are just so many games, even if you try to limit it to the televised Division I games, more just seem to keep crawling out of the woodwork.

But I want to bet on New Mexico State Baptist Technical College vs University of Massachusetts  School of Bartending and Automotive Repair for the Blind & Deaf.

I agree in that aspect. As a bookie, Paul could seriously get messed up if he offers lines for some obscure cbb games that rarely people bet. A pro bettor would be all up on that—if the lines were correct. The way with televised games, however, Paul could be like "Hey, I'm only allowed bets on games that are on ESPN or on the ESPN family of networks." Something like that wouldn't be too bad. It's approximately 8-10 games per day.

He could take another route, too, and instead take action on only top 25 teams until the tournament. Then there's no way he could add more games because it's only top 25 teams. Then all of course he could determine how he would like to go, depending on the action, the amount, and his profit.

You guys do make some good points. The thing is, if we add NCAA, then there needs to be enough action on those games to make posting them worthwhile, and I'm not so sure if that is the case. Like you said, it's already easily more than 10 additional games per day to keep track of, and some people will still be disappointed if their favorite team isn't included.

It already takes a lot of time to update NBA and NHL due to the large number of games being played every day, and a lot of teams playing back-to-back. So I'm kind of hoping that people interested in basketball will find something interesting in our NBA selections. Another thing to consider is the unpredictability of NCAA games.

Football is much easier to do in the sense that there is usually a limited number of games being played each week, so we can make odds available to play much earlier and they reach a much larger audience.

whats the cut off time for u guys,  ex-   4:00 or 4:05, thanks guys gals

As long as the transaction gets 1 confirmation before -- or soon after game time -- then it's good. There's some time where I paid 5 mins after the starting whistle, and i've been paid.

I see your point. I'm guessing you're the only person working for the book? That can definitely be difficult, so I understand where you're coming from.

i sent the wagers with tor , will that be a problem?

Wow, people really made a lot of money on hockey yesterday. Almost all of the bets were winners, even with some surprising results in certain games (Detroit what are you doing??). Congrats.


At the moment I'm the only one working on lines and payments, but I get some help elsewhere. We don't exactly generate enough profit so that we could hire people to work for us, but maybe some day... That's why I'd like to keep the betting options to the most popular games that I know get action every day. We're slowly increasing the numbers of bets and leagues though.


For the NBA and NHL, five minutes past is fine because games don't actually start before that. For football and such, it's exactly at the announced time. Of course it's better to bet early than late if it can be helped. Transactions through Tor are fine as long as they get through in time.

Gonna put up the English Premier League games for tomorrow?

wanna bet on the fulham-stoke for a bit of fun but not sure if i'll wake up in time to place a bet since its at 6:45am

I'll bet it for you, if you can't, since I'll be up by then.

Yeah, should have had those games posted yesterday, sorry about that. Game winners are now online and total goals will be up soon. I'm still going through some of yesterday's transactions, there were a lot of them, so it'll take still a bit longer for the winning bets to be paid out.

I actually made it up with time to spare, but thanks. and no sweat mr blockbet

Glad to hear that. Also the last of yesterday's winners have now been paid, there were a lot of them, congrats.

We've increased the minimum bet size to 0.1 BTC. Don't mean to discriminate anyone, but with the transaction fees, handling bets of 0.01 BTC just doesn't seem very meaningful. And we do recommend people use the transaction fees when making late bets to make sure the bets are confirmed before match start.

Today's early games are up and the rest are coming shortly! Not sure if I mentioned it before but we've got today's UFC matches as well :)

The NHL Totals for games were only up for 2 games...what happened?

I was wondering the same thing. I had to bet them on 5d.

will there be 10cent lines for mlb  and will there be overnight lines, thanks guys keep up the good work

is the max bet     to win 10 btc  or to wager 10btc,  and   some of my bets i sent it 10min b4 tipoff so far  no problem, but is that cutting it close tho , whats the recommended time , thanks guys

Yeah, sorry about that. So many games last weekend, I couldn't get the rest of them online in time for people to make bet. Of course we want to have as many options as possible but I think we have to admit that not every option is going to be available for every game.

MLB season starts at the end of March, right? We'll cover it too since that's what people seem to want. Another "league" that we're adding next month is Formula 1 racing, so keep an eye out for that ;)


Max bet to wager is 10 BTC. Betting 10 minutes before game start is fine if you use the default transaction fee, which I recommend for everyone. No-fee transactions might take a few hours to confirm which could be too late. This is of course one downside of the system that is difficult to control when your transaction will be confirmed, hopefully future versions of Bitcoin will be better in that aspect.

We're pretty flexible with the confirmation limit, I'm not going to void a bet if it's a minute or two late, but sometimes we get a bet once a game has already finished, so those kinds of bets cannot be accepted because there might be some foul play involved :/

I'm really looking forward to baseball. What will the lines be like? For example will it be -120/+110 or -130/+110?

No college basketball. Tragic.

err, i think i bet on the hawks-pistsons game like 20 minutes after it started, sorry.

You beat me up good today. Went 0-fer. Need some reasonable baseball games and I'll feed you more.

It's a bit early to tell, frankly I haven't put a lot of thought into the MLB season yet. But the odds will be around the same margins as with our current games.


Sorry to disappoint, I know there is demand for it. But there are already a few upcoming leagues in our "budget" so I want to make sure that we can offer all the games from our current lineup before trying to offer everything else. It's still a fairly new site and I hope we'll have college basketball in the near future.


Don't worry about it, I paid it anyway this time since it was so early in the game - though that's strictly unofficial and in the future late bets will still be voided. I'll see if we can implement a system that would make games that have already started disappear, but so far the attemps haven't been compatible with the site.


Yeah, there were some very strange scores yesterday on basketball, the point total lines weren't anywhere close... and 3 out of 5 hockey games going into overtime. I guess a lot of players were disappointed with the performances of certain teams, though of course there were plenty of winners as well.

FC Barcelona - Real Madrid game on today, odds now available :)

GET SHIT ON BARCA HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA I HOPE MILAN ELIMINATES YOU FROM CL

sent  u  a message  regarding  grading , thanks dude.

Okay, here's what happened:

The point line for the Cavaliers - Raptors game was originally 197.5, but once we got word that Kyrie Irving would miss the game, the line dropped to 194.5. Of course all the bets that had been made prior to that would still get the original line, as well as the bets that were made around the time that change went into effect (within 30 minutes of the change or so).

About 90 minutes later there was one more bet for under, so I figured that the bettor was betting on the new line. But of course if you still had the original page open on your browser, you also saw the original line. The game finished at 195 points. So if that's the case it's a winning bet and I'll send you the full amount.

We try to keep the point lines and odds as static as possible for this reason, but sometimes there needs to be small adjustments either way. For this reason the page should be refreshed every once in a while.

Actually, this issue should be rather easily (and obviously) solved with an auto refresh script, so customers need not worry about it in the future. I'll get to work on it right away. Thanks for bringing up the issue!

alright fair enough, but could u put in  on the website that odds change and tell people to refresh there page,but my apologies on not understanding how ur   site works.(im so mad at myself now ,i could of got it at 196 somewhere else  ,but my dumbass didnt know the lines had move at blockbet.) thanks  later man.

Nah it's my fault, should have thought of that possibility before. It's already been fixed, from now on the pages will refresh automatically so you don't need to worry about it :)

man block bet is the absoulute $hit , i didnt know the lines move at bb   ,i thought i won but i didnt, so  i lost fair and square, now i aint got no choice but to recommend bb too any one who ask,  8). how do i send the coins back i dont feel right about this,  u are a  fukin gentleman.

at least we know now when theirs   any issues u will do ur best to make it right, i truly thank you for that,  nice to know that bb  isnt a corrupted book and their is actually a good hearted dude  behind their runnin it.

Thanks for the compliments :) If you want to, feel free to make another bet with some of the bitcoins I sent you. Still about 20 minutes to the first game!

Put it all on the Timberwolves man

MLB Season does indeed start soon.

One sort of popular baseball bet that I don't know if you are comfortable offering yet is the pre-season World Series bet. Usually just the casinos and brave bookies offer it. I've seen exactly one World Series bet denominated in bitcoin so far and it is on Bitbet for the Cardinals to win, but because of bitbet limitiations it isn't scheduled to close until Game One of the Series is over though the Cardinals could be eliminated much before then. It's a bit late to open this sort of bet though, but if you could open them for next year this November it ought to be pretty lucrative for you.

A standing World Series bet, odds revised as often as you need to for new bets up through the All Star Break might be workable though.

I know this has already been addressed but it would be great if you get get college basketball up for the NCAA tournament.

Hell yeah! Considering $2.5 millionbillion is wagered on March Madness (http://www.americangaming.org/industry-resources/research/fact-sheets/sports-wagering), I'm pretty sure he'll have action on it.

Edit: Billions, not millions

had a brainfart and only bet .01 on memphis +8 wtf is wrong w/ me

Got lucky and had a few winners last night. All paid up. Nice work BlockBet.  ;D

Please add the UFC on FUEL 8 coupon  8)

Definitely add the Fuel TV fights. A lot of us will be watching it. It would also be nice if you have some decent odds and not the -200/+150 type of odds. It should be -200/+180  ;D

UFC matches are up, almost forgot all about them! I think our odds are quite reasonable :)

Jury's still out on those additional leagues and MLB preseason games, but with those kinds of numbers, I think it's safe to say that March Madness will be covered :) You'll notice that we added Bundesliga this weekend and of course as we spoke earlier, F1 racing will begin in 2 weeks.

Thanks. I'm liking BlockBet more and more each day.

1-5 on the fights. I wish you had waited another week to put them up. I also went 0-2 in the NBA. 1-7 day.  :-[

do u guys have overnights lines(at least for early games) , i wanna sleep in , 8)

Finally had a winning day and was paid.  ;D

what'd you win on m98

some of my bets are slow at  confirming  , does that happen once in a while, thanks for reading

Just pay the transaction fee, and you'll be good to go.

I'm so new to this that I don't even know what m98 means.

it means mate m8

So far so good, I'm not seeing any bets that have had any problems. Like mjester93 said it's recommended that you use the default transaction fee and it'll be fine. If you want to make no-fee transactions then you should bet a bit earlier. Probably I have been making too much of an issue of the whole thing.

About the overnight lines, we try to post early games the day before but can't make any promises.

how do i pay the fees or what not,  i been just using quick send on  block chain

I've been doing the same. Would also like to know.

A majority of the time, using quick send on blockchain.info will result in the addition of the transaction fee. If that does not work, however, then you can go to "Custom" send, and manually type in a transaction fee.

thanks

Thanks for clarifying that. I don't use Blockchain myself so I'm not so sure how it works exactly. While I don't want to force any fees, I'm guessing that minimum-fee transactions are going to be more important in the future of Bitcoin especially for small amounts, like 0.1 BTC without a fee does sometimes take a really long time. So far I'm paying out all bets regardless confirmation times, win or lose, but that rule does need to be in place just in case somebody tries to take advantage of us.

Yesterday was a busy day, 14 matches in the NBA and most bets were winners... Congrats to the folks who made the right picks. Tonight there's only 2 games in the NBA, but great matchups nevertheless. Don't have to skip back and forth between games :)

who do you got on the clippers-nugs m8

the over's gonna hit easily.

Blockbet- Don't forget about me. I had a 5 BTC bet that hit yesterday. Just looking for the coins to play today.

Which game was that? I went over all the bets from yesterday and according to my information all winning bets were paid out earlier as normal. The only 5 BTC bets that I we got were for the Knicks - Thunder game, and they've were paid, addresses ending *EpgT and *bhR1. Blockchain.info seems to down for the moment so I can't verify if there have been delays in confirmations or something like that.

Hey BB, I want to place a bet on the over in the Spurs-Blazers game at 209. However, blockchain.info is down, so I can't send the payment. If the site's not up by game time is there anyway I can still bet the game?

Sorry, looks like the game's already started. If Blockchain's been down for a while, it's no wonder that there have been less bets than normal... I'm glad that they're moving to a better server but it's not so great that people can't make payments :/

Ya, that was my bet on the under. Must be something with Blockchain since that's what I use. Thanks for checking. I'll get back when it comes in. I really like Blockbet.

Got it. Thanks. Must have been Blockchain.

Great, thanks for confirming it :) I was a bit worried there for a moment. Oddly it shows 0 minutes and relay IP as 0.0.0.0 for the payments, but I guess that's just them updating their servers. I'm glad to see blockchain.info back up and running again as normal.

hello mr bet,  sent u a private message  reguardin  fridays nba wagers, thanks

Wow, got a super speedy payout on one of my bets today. Good looks, BB.

thank you based Schalke

Problem (initially caused by Blockchain's update) solved and lost bitcoins have been tracked and returned :) Great thing about Bitcoin is that there's proof of every transaction.


Thanks for the support :) I typically try to process those early games before the evening games start, it's nice to have games spread across the day instead of all games being played at the same time.


Nice result heading into next week's CL game but I guess Huntelaar will be out for a while :/ Interesting to see how they manage without him.

did i copy the wrong address on the liverpool (ynwa) tottenham match thought I did over 2.5
96b571fca5c969f4ec68be36af5ea09d9c0bdbc6d1a2a2a7da0287532c2c5c53

Fast payouts from yesterday's plays. Too bad I had more losers than winners.

fml i looked it up on blckchain i bet on under 2.5 oh well at least liverpool won

Yeah it was on under... but I think the over and under selections should be listed separately to avoid confusion, should be an easy fix to make on the site. I'll give you a refund on your bet.

you are too awesome man

the blockchain has forked...will our sent bets for todays late games be tracked??????

Due to the issue on the blockchain it is hard to tell what will happen with today's bets. My guess is that all bets will be returned. As of time of writing this message I don't think there are any major bets for today which have been resolved yet.

As I understood all transactions from earlier are fine and we need to worry about those.

Let's hope we get this thing fixed and back to normal soon.

My mans, I put in a few bets (the over in both hockey games and the under in the San Antonio-Oklahoma City game). Were these placed in time, or will they be refunded?

Apparently the issue is with block #225430 - 00000000000001c108384350f74090433e7fcf79a606b8e797f065b130575932. I would assume that bets that have a number of confirmations before that block would be okay. We'll follow the official rules regarding the issue. At the moment please don't make any additional bets before the issue has been resolved.

Luckily, it's Monday with not a lot of games on tonight...

Accidental post, was supposed to add information to my previous post. But as mentioned, we'll follow whatever instructions we get from the Bitcoins devs. My expectation is that all bets made before the issue can be honored.

I just read this. I hope it doesn't affect my bet. I had a winner for 6 BTC. The bet was placed 1.5 hours before tip off. 6 BTC means a lot to me.

Looks like everything is under control. I'm really impressed by how quickly the issue was solved by the Bitcoin community. I can't tell if any bets have been returned due to the chain fork, but I'm going to begin payouts for all winning bets that we have in our system wallet. And yes, it includes at least one 6 BTC bet.

Odds for FC Barcelona - AC Milan will be posted shortly, can't wait for that game to start :)

Just checked and they are in my wallet.  ;D

Seems impossible but I think I'm going 0-6 losing 29 BTC.  :'(

Won a late game. 1-5 instead of 0-6.

Damn, man. That sucks.

That is pretty harsh, but that's sports. Yesterday in the NBA, 9 out of 11 games ended in a home win, even when considering the handicaps. A lot of people had bet on the Lakers, and it doesn't get any easier for them now that Kobe is out of the lineup :/

my thing wont sychronise someone should place a .1 bet on mavericks +9.5 for me

I got it for you.

sweet let me know your address whenever my electrome thing synchronises

It's the same one as the one in my sig: 18AhTt9bYcNdZYvxLiugjiF3oMHYr1SwzF

i meant transaction id

Oh. I had to bet it thru my 5d account. 0.1 is like 5 bucks, and that's nothing. So, if you cover, I'll just send you the money in btc. If you lose, don't worry about it.

very good 17z32TwwYfmW6B8ax4ee5o5hYXFoPRPJTn
weird tho my bet did go through even tho the electrome never said payment sent and wouldnt sync for like an hour

Sent: https://blockchain.info/tx/cfce4a0e406dad9b7e2a3f5985f91979a44eb59a4fed17edb80522c3c3824384

got it, thx

no lines for ufc this week? u still got last ufc lines up

Diaz have any chance?

Thanks for the reminder, UFC odds are online. We've also added F1 racing as mentioned earlier, first race will be in Australia this weekend and odds for the qualifications are up. I hope it will have some action even if F1 isn't that popular in the US.

Tonight's NBA and NHL games will be posted a bit later than usual, but they'll be online in plenty of time before the first matches.

hello mr bet   sent u a private message, thanks

5-2 Sunday. About time  ;D

Will the NCAA basketball games be up starting Thursday? Need me some action for the tournament.

You mean Tuesday?

oops. Forgot about those games.

Hey I'm really starting to worry...I bet .999btc on Ottawa Senators ML (including SO/OT) -128 and still no payout...game began at 5pm. (I have bad anxiety and 1.78btc is a lot to me). Anyone gotten paid for that game yet?

Sometimes I receive my payouts right after the game and sometimes it takes 10 hours but I've always been paid. I got paid after the early basketball game Sunday but not the late ones.

Phew...just received it. First bet and first time paid. All went well just took awhile which I can understand for one guy running it.

Yeah, it can be anxious waiting for payments to be received. However, this guy is legit and always pays.

Btw, BB, I have some comments about your site's code? What would be the best way to contact you about that? PM?

I just got paid the remaining bets too. Blockbet is great!

First of all, congrats to the winners. One of those days when almost every bet was a winner... Clippers, Timberwolves and Lakers were pretty good for the players yesterday.

I think it's normal to be a bit worried about every new Bitcoin business, so that's why it's good to look around for any customer comments and maybe start with a smaller amount. We get a lof of bets each day and especially on the weekends there are games being played pretty much around the clock, so that's why there are sometimes delays in payouts. Typically all NBA and NHL games will be graded a few hours after the last games have finished, so it can all be done in one sitting. Some games will be graded earlier if possible, always within 12 hours of the end of each game.

March Madness should be live tomorrow when the games start :)


I'll send you a PM. Interested to hear what it is. Probably the quickest way to reach me is through PM for any questions or comments.

Get those CBB lines up quick! Other shops are ahead of you! Should've been up last night!

We'll have money lines, handicaps and point totals starting from early tomorrow morning. We won't be doing brackets if that's what people are wondering, but there's another guy on the gambling forum who seems to be running one for those interested.

March Madness games are now live - spreads and totals have the same 1.92/-109 odds as our NBA games for now, let's see how it goes. Site also has a bit more color to it :)

I'm in heaven right now hearing that you'll have the NCAA games up but will probably be in hell after the games.

   ahahh, good one,  and  ill be sure to save u a seat  .

Finally had a winning day and was paid shortly after the games ended.  ;D

Congrats. We've been losing bitcoins for 3-4 days in a row, so right now it's a good day if we lose "only a little". I'm starting to wonder if somebody has the games rigged, maybe some NBA players are taking advantage of the anonymity aspects of Bitcoin...

Don't worry about it though, we've still got plenty left in our wallets :) Tonight's March Madness games are up and the NBA and NHL games will be live later as usual.

Yo, is there a way you can add a feature so someone could check their bets after you take the lines off?

I guess that I'm the only one losing.  >:(

some lines on the world cup qualifiers today would be nice. At least the "big" teams any how.

Well, not easily anyway. Plus I don't want to keep a database on our customers even if all the bets can be found on the blockchain. But I'll keep that request in mind.


Sorry to hear that, but I guess the wins don't distribute evenly. Yesterday there were a lot of bets on the longshot underdogs, but not much luck with them... Except the 76ers probably should have won that game with 13.13 (+1213) odds. Not gonna lie, there was a lot of money on that game. I had some trouble getting sleep after it. Never seen anything like that before, Denver made 3 free throws with 2 seconds remaining to come from behind to win the game after Philly had missed two.


Pretty busy with March Madness and all, but I did put a couple of the more interesting games up on our Bundesliga page. Hope you'll find your game there. Sorry that today's games won't be more extensively covered.

understandable march madness is just mad

Yeah I have been just a huge loser with you guys. I was all over the underdogs so, you're very welcome. I got suckered in again tonight. Unfortunately your line for Northwestern State was 20. Y'all have been shading the favorites it seems.

I was thissssss close to taking the FGCU ML. Be thankful.

Win or lose Friday? What teams were bet the most?

Somebody did though, if only a smallish amount. That's still more than a 8x return on investment, not bad...


NCAA had pretty crazy action with a lot of ups and downs. I think almost all games had some bets on them. I guess that's March Madness... I'm glad half the teams are gone already :) In general it was a pretty good day, though it always comes down to a few games to determine if it's a winner or a loser (or break-even). I don't think there was any one game with most bets, but the big teams usually get a lot of action (Thunder, Knicks, Heat, Lakers, Pittsburgh Penguins etc.).

Today's NCAA games are up, as well as the first NHL games. NBA will be live soon. Looks like no UFC tonight...

Hi i bet .20btc on the nuggets tonight but didnt realise the match was already 10 mins in and i was wondering how long it was going to take to get the refund. i got paid for my bet on the minnesota wild thanks for that.

Hey. I'm about halfway through all the bets from last night, so you'll have it soon. I'm seeing one 0.1 btc bet on the Nuggets minus handicap that seems to be about 10 minutes late, I assume you mean that one. Thanks for playing and congrats on the Wild win!

cb1b345a4d8186f989a3b370e91830ca2bcc072ad2c6e9fa35c12bc9fb9e9609 thats the transaction # im pretty sure it was on the nuggs either way im pretty sure i was late

Are you sure about the transaction number? That's not one of our addresses.

[edit] Here's the transaction that we do have: 4bf2f3c4bbe339b788e7031b3a325d1bbd5ef8edcb178be90f7d5236662abf1f - it's been refunded now.

all square thanks buddy... ya i derped thought i bet .2 and i had made a transaction at .2 but it was something different thanks alot. sry for wasting ur time lol

Don't worry about it, it happens, and I'm glad we got it resolved. All winning bets paid, right now I'm gonna have a small break and then get to work on today's NCAA games.

I think I put a decent scare into you with Temple. Oh well, still got the points.

my bets arent getting confirm    its been like a hour   , network seems slow today, should i not send anymore when its a slow day.

Are you sending them with a transaction fee?

thanks for being a grade A cunt Vettel!

im using  block chains quick send sometimes they add the tranact fee sometimes not.  i sent some bets  way b4 tip off   they took 2hrs to get confirm , but the rest of the bets b4 n after  were faster  . it was just during that timeframe things were slow.

Do you guys add a transaction fee of .0005 or a different amount?

Already received my winnings and that includes the late game. Nice work BlockBet.

I don't mind even if there are longer delays in confirmations as long as I can see that the bet was made before match start and it's nothing crazy like a bet being confirmed hours after a game has already finished. And certainly the transaction fee does almost guarantee that there is no risk of double-spending.


Yeah games like that can be a nightmare sometimes. Like yesterday, Bobcats had a very brief lead over the Heat, I think it was almost 10 points they were ahead... Sure that didn't last long but still caught my eye :)


Webber's win would have brought home a return of 15x... Well there was no bitcoins bet on him but still, that would have been too nasty.

Will you be putting up MLB lines? The season is starting soon and I play almost every game on the board.

made several bets and got paid ever time when i won

Absolutely. Games will be on once the season starts in a couple of days :)


Thanks for playing and for the positive feedback!

Just wanted to comment that so far this site has been great. I usually send in my bets 5-10 minutes before tip-off and haven't had one issue with getting a return on wins.

When it gets to the elite 8 or the final 4 could you offer lines for what NCAA team wins it all? You could put a max of like 1 or 2 BTC to prevent a major risk to the house. Hoping you could cause I would like to put a little on who I think will win it all but no book seems to offer future lines at all.

Glad you like it! No problems with bets just minutes before tip-off as long as you use the standard fee. If you want to bet without fee, then I'd recommend to send at least an hour before just in case, since it's not possible to predict how long the network will take with them.


Will do - thanks for the suggestion! And I'm sure we can do at least 5 BTC limit on them, if not all the way up to 10 :)

What kind of lines will you have? 10-cent?

I made three bets today and the second one, Milwaukee/Lakers over, is still unconfirmed.  I made all bets almost two hours before the Lakers game started.

Here is the bet I am referring to.  https://blockchain.info/address/1GSPB9byMXgVQREogJP1HsKMpF3QM8ZgMy

  its taking longer  to get the   tran act pick up now   maybe cause more people are using btc , i  learned how to add the miners fee, if ur paranoid the bet might never get their add the fee  0.001. any how with ur  unconfirm bet as long  as u made  the bet before  tip off  it should be good. mr block  is pretty dam cool bout it.  just dont send it too late if u dont add the fee.

That's good to hear.  It was my first day betting with him and I like it so far.

Ok one more question.  My bet in this transaction, https://blockchain.info/tx/9adf95401dc1d85d63cb1f4b90aebb6c0e812b6b2824b717cb48f19a87d2781c looks like it was sent from 2 addresses by me.  Which address will the winnings be returned to?

gets return to the one u orginally sent it from, unless  u sent it  from one of the  shared group addresses or what not, i have  sent mr block   wagers with another btc sports book, not  a good idea  , since its shared or what not  mr block wont know ur orginal address

But what if it shows the coins for 1 bet came from 2 addresses, like here http://blockexplorer.com/tx/9adf95401dc1d85d63cb1f4b90aebb6c0e812b6b2824b717cb48f19a87d2781c#o0

Then which address is used for the return?

how to test ?

Blockbet just paid all my winners, even the one that didn't confirm right away.  Awesome service!!!

Thanks for everybody helping out the newcomers with their first bets, glad to see so many people enjoying the service!

NCAAB Season Winner is now live as requested, no limit other than the 10 BTC site limit. I'm prepared to take a substantial loss if Wichita goes all the way :)


Please check back tomorrow for the season opener but lines will generally be similar to our NBA games :)

For the hockey fans, make sure to watch the Penguins - Islanders game that's starting in just a few hours! Jarome Iginla will likely make his Penguins debut in that game and in any case, Pens are going for their 15th straight win!

I hope you get those baseball lines up early. You're beating me up good and I'd hate for the other sites to get my money. :)

Nice hit on the Heat/Spurs game.

Had 9 BTC on the Spurs.  :'(

Yeah a lot of people had bitcoins on the Spurs, and I don't blame them. Hate it when coaches pull something like that, glad they didn't decide to rest Bosh as well... I was out of "the office" for a couple of hours yesterday so didn't have a chance to adjust the lines on that game before it was too late. Got lucky to escape from that one...

Somebody won quite a bit of bitcoins the day before on a similar play when Nowitzki scored a 3-pointer on the final seconds to give Dallas the win.

And what's up with Chelsea anyway, first they lose to Southampton and then they beat United...

MLB lines are online, basketball and hockey coming up a bit later.

They lost southampton they were resting a lot of players in preparation for the Man U game. They honestly didn't look that good against manchester either save for that piece of Mata & Ba magic. They also have a Europe league game coming up against Rubin I think so that'll be interesting to see how they handle 3 games in a weeks.

saw the    btc  thread   over 500 boners  by  dec 31 2013     +500,   any plans to put up bitcoin futures. thanks 4 readin mr block

MPEX or Coinbr are where the futures are

For MLB, do you plan on adding different total lines like you do for NHL?

:o

Not really, in my opinion futures for bitcoin don't make so much sense since the currency in so volatile. If you bet one bitcoin now, it may be worth a lot more or a lot less once the bet is resolved... And I don't want to hold on to people's bitcoins for such a long time. Like Atruk mentioned there are other sites that are good for futures. Futures for a short period (for example a short tournament winner) might be suitable for the site though.


Sorry but no such plans for the moment, want to see how the baseball betting goes in general for now.

Will you have exotic bets, like presidential elections?

I finally had a winning day and got even on the Lebron/Wade sitting routine.  ;D

What country? USA? Russia? You can have any odds and limits you want if you're gonna bet on somebody other than Putin to win :)

I'm open to suggestions but like I said, I'm generally against long-term futures since the currency moves so much, and the situations may change drastically while I'm sleeping etc.


Yeah no surprise that there was a lot of actions on the Knicks yesterday. I didn't want to drop their odds too low like some other betting sites, I figured that the Heat still have their chances since they beat the Spurs too with the same lineup. They did have the lead at half-time... Anyway I guess it's pretty even. Some guys had a pretty nice run on hockey and baseball yesterday as well, basically the only big game that let the players down was the Penguins who lost.

I believe this is our biggest winner so far:

Boston Bruins vs New Jersey Devils - Under 2.5 goals @ 6.55x / +555

Result: 1-0

Bet: 10 BTC

Wins: 65.5 BTC

https://blockchain.info/tx/baf4bc40054268473f28e96fb475588433aff1de3198bc5ada8cf8d9f26917bd

Add that to the current market price, so yeah... Should be a nice start to the weekend whoever made that bet.

How are things going overall? Still making a profit?

When I saw that game going under 2.5 goals (guys couldn't score from anywhere, not even in the empty net), I already knew I was gonna take a big loss regardless of what happens in the other games. A lot of players have also been on a hot streak in the MLB and NBA games, so we're currently having a few consecutive days of losses, but that's what gambling is about - there will be ups and downs. We're not going bankrupt anytime soon even you guys keep winning, so no need to worry about that :)

I have thought about lowering the limit, since bitcoins were about 25$ a piece when we first started, but let's see a few more days on how it goes. I would like to keep it at 10 since it's a nice, round figure, but we'll see.

I think the max limit is what makes you one of the best, in my opinion. Obviously, if you're losing money because of it, then you'll have to lower the limit. But right now, you have the highest limit of any bitcoin book, and that's legit.

Another thing, you guys thinking about lowering those 20-cent lines in MLB? BitBook.biz has 15-cent, and bitcoinsports.eu has 10-cent, which makes you (essentially) the 3rd option.

Still diggin' the site, and I use you mostly every night. Keep it up!

Horse bets 2morrow?

Not to grunch, but BTCSportsBet.com has the highest limits by far. 25-50btc depending on sport. Also the longest track record of any bitcoin book, Carry on.

Thanks for the tips. I won't be limiting it just yet, but it's something to consider if Bitcoin continues to increase. Even most million-dollar multinational gambling sites won't accept bets that amount to thousands if not tens of thousands of dollars, at least not without approval from much higher.

I won't be changing the MLB lines as long as I'm making a loss on them at current levels.


Honestly I have no knowledge of horse racing, maybe I'll look into it at some point though if it's a possibility. Thanks for the request anyway!


Thanks for advertising in my thread instead of yours. Let me know when I can bet without registering or when you have more than a few betting options for a game. Stay classy Cusipzzz.

No NBA?

There's no NBA games today.

makes sense with the NCAA game.

Anyone get paid yet? First time I had to wait this long.

Just got paid. Never a doubt.

Yeah rare day off from the NBA, but still lots of work in other leagues. I had never realized that there are so many baseball games every day!


Glad you mentioned it, but I wonder if there were delays in the network? I made the payments 7+ hours ago... Maybe I need to increase the fee?

[edit] Well according to my Bitcoin client they were all confirmed ages ago, about 50 confirmations each right now. Maybe if you use an online wallet, they might have been having delays there.

Must have been on my end since I also see the confirmations. This is the first time it happened so it seems that the fees are fine. I use blockchain. Thanks for the reply.

site down? is there  one of them mirror sites or what not

Yeah, server host is down. That's not good, but nothing I can do about it but wait for them to get it back online, hopefully before most of the games are starting. Have to think about getting a better host at some point.

There were plenty of bets made prior the site going down, those bets are fine and will be honored as usual.

can u post the lines here or is that too much

+1

lol, but thats such a pain in the ass that I wouldn't hold it against you if you didn't  :P

If there's enough people interested, I can make a daily thread here with all the lines from the different btc books.

I don't think that would make a lot of sense, it would be a mess and very difficult to maintain if the lines need to be adjusted. First games are starting soon, I'm gonna keep an eye on the host if they come back online soon, but right now it looks like it's taking some time and it might not be back until tomorrow.

Sorry for the trouble. Like I said, bets made prior are still on so no need to worry about those.

sounds like   it can be a start  for some type of line service  or  sbr  and covers  for btc books,  that would be sweet , the btc gamblin community needs one of those.

I'll do one tomorrow and see what the community thinks.

Site's back online. Most games are already on but you can still get in on the late NBA games. Baseball will be back tomorrow. Sorry for the trouble and hope things will go smoothly from now on.

Can you tell me what time that you sent payouts today? You've been great as far as paying out winners but for some reason it looks like they are still being delayed on my end again. Nothing has come in yet. Thanks

The last payouts for yesterdays bets were made at about 11am UTC/6am ET. They all have 50-60 confirmations at the time of writing this. I don't want to post blockchain.info transaction URLs here since I don't know which one is you, but you should be able to see them there if you know the addresses that you typically use.

Just got it. That's strange. The confirmations are exactly what you stated so it is something here on my end. Thanks

Will UFC be up later?

It's already on :) Missed some of last week's matches due to the very early start times then, so such mistake today.

Thanks

Just want to mention that I did receive the payments fast yesterday. It was shortly after the games ended.

Thanks :)

I've been a bit inconsistent with the payouts recently, sometimes they're right after the game, sometimes hours later. I'll try to improve in the consistency from now on since I know it's important for the players.

Other than that, it's business as usual for us, I'm not too worried about the exchange rate or other bitcoin issues at the moment, still have a lot of faith in the currency. Really excited for the NBA and NHL playoffs to start soon, a lot of good matchups in the horizon. The Heat have been giving me some trouble when they keep resting their players and they still win with 6 guys out of the lineup, but once it's playoff time we can be sure that if the guys can stand on their feet, they'll play :)

hahah, had  a wager   that took 1003 mins  to confirm, with the fee too.  the bet lost  , if it won it still counts tho right? u go by sent time? this is just for future ref,  thanks for reading mr block.

I suppose you're talking about this one, for the Lakers game:

Send from: *Gnh1
Received Time:    2013-04-18 02:31:31
Included In Blocks:    232019 (2013-04-18 19:14:12 +1,003 minutes)


That's very unusual indeed, I use the same fee and I've never seen delays longer than an hour or so. But the thing is, we can see that the bet was placed before tipoff, and there is a fee, so there's no reason not to accept it. That's just tough luck with the game total going "under" despite the overtime.

There was a mistake in today's La Liga goal totals, it's now been fixed, but all bets prior to that will be refunded. Match won't start until an hour from now so we don't know the score yet, and you're welcome to make another bet with the updated lines.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

[edit] And just to clarify that match winner bets are unaffected.

site down  :(

Yes, I can't access it either.

Site is having some issues again, it's very frustrating but nothing I can do but wait to the host to get it fixed. It's been on and off for a while now. Hope they won't take too long.

I'm not gonna post all the games here, but here are the lines for the NBA playoffs which will start tonight:

Team to advance:

New York Knicks	1.26  / -381	1MNT3225mfHpsuNd2TumrvAhohQNJpXs8Y
Boston Celtics	3.84  / +284	16bgtwJ8G3xwUvZV3ukR5BFsgRVZxQQ9Gh
Denver Nuggets	1.18  / -550	16oh2tksdvF4ZoNcyRPqfepNQxPEj7WeTK
GoldenStateWarriors	4.85  / +385	1LQZ9iMqz3BNLwichmPMBzs8izWtrrEPMU
Brooklyn Nets	1.70  / -144	14QgwjqmujraTy3JezyJgB6ZYULsXzC4UN
Chicago Bulls	2.17  / +117	1H7LnGmzDsUNtoeLSCekgWjUdCD5jaJMEg
Los Angeles Clippers	1.50  / -198	1DjD4rLWZenxqV38J9Q4Pv7sdmkQ1UzTkH
Memphis Grizzlies	2.58  / +158	139S6svT2VfJEcqPqRobKy4yscxtetYis1
Indiana Pacers	1.28  / -354	1E5bXH7vSoVBVDfcpH4AyvLxaHbwr5LsSE
Atlanta Hawks	3.69  / +269	199SptXiZ7VGAcmGMRw9RTMa6Y3Kp8yXTn
San Antonio Spurs	1.09  / -1101	1NpHHGt2aNeKXMt6Tdm5uBjLfVUF2Uv62h
Los Angeles Lakers	7.32  / +632	17djy9h6Dztnq6UZoK5TxpA1Ur8nbXzHm8
Miami Heat	1.02  / -4975	1GFcEC34ht9FvMojA3Z1mAsP43Bd4nH4ax
Milwaukee Bucks	25.00 / +2400	1Hg2ZX52bLmBVMjWM7G7LMNUNceAG7rfGo
OklahomaCityThunder	1.04  / -2481	1AWNhPY11wuXQgL8cQfLtoerWNMW1EZ96x
Houston Rockets	11.00 / +1000	1PS3f8oKZ9tZqtNdUTgx1zoDm7Nn37Gpup

Betting will close for each series after the first match has started. As always, bets between 0.1 - 10.0 BTC accepted, just send your bet to the corresponding address after you've made sure that you can receive payments to your sending address. Good luck :)

[edit] Okay so that table is not very attractive but I hope you'll find the relevant information there.

[edit2] And to clarify, these bets are for the playoff series, not individual games. The lines should not see any movement unless something unexpected happens with the lineups etc.

Thanks for the NBA series. Hopefully the rest will be up later.

edit- Site back up.

No prob. The site has been up and down all day, it was accessible for a moment, but now it's down again. Like I said, I'm definitely looking for a better host, but obviously it's not that simple. In any case, there's no sense for me to post any games until the site is accessible all the time. Hopefully you'll find something on the NBA series bets.

UFC starts in under 2 hours, you might want to put the coupon up  :P

Site seems to be working again. I've already got UFC and NBA up and gonna start working on the rest of the games next. It's a shame that we missed some of the early games though, sorry about that.

Alright guys, I think the time time has come for me to retire Blockbet. Obviously with the NBA and NHL heading into the playoffs and soccer leagues with their summer breaks, there will be less games to cover over the summer, and I've made nothing but losses on baseball up to this point.

It's been a great experience and a lot of fun, but it's also been a full-time job with no days off, so a small break from everything will be welcome. Also the sportsbook game is a lot more crowded than it used to be, and let's face it, some of these new guys can offer more features than we do. I knew from the start that it won't take too long for guys with more technical knowledge and more time to invest to come along, and I wish nothing but good luck for them. The sportsbooks offerings are now a lot stronger that what they used to be, and I'm glad to have been a part of that process.

I'm gonna stay involved with Bitcoin, I have a lot of faith in the currency. I also have a couple of other ideas that I want to work on, and I can't do that with Blockbet taking so much of my time at the moment. Hopefully one of those ideas will some day become bigger than what Blockbet could ever dream of being!

I'll get to work on payouts from yesterday in a moment. Outstanding NBA bets (playoff series starting later today) will be returned. After that I'll probably shut down the site (server rent is almost finished anyway) and lock the thread.

It's been a crazy ride with a lot of ups and downs, peaks and valleys, and a valuable learning process. So with that, I want to thank everybody for their support. Thanks for playing!

-Paul

Update: Site is now closed. Thank you for your support.