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Very fun little game. :D
The website is nice, the game plays smoothly, and the game is addictive, lol.

I managed to make a ~0.007BTC profit with one of the codes. Now let's see if they paid out profits.  8)

Other than that .. seems pretty legit and serious to me. Your ANN thread could use a little bit more efforts tho.

Edit : Just received the BTC I have won. :o It's cool so far~
Thank you and good luck with the project ! :)

Okay, so I made a little deposit back to try out. It is credited after it reaches 1 confirmation.
Lost my deposit of course. :D

However, great concept for a game.
Basic features are working good.

Only thing that bugs me is, the game's operator should make it provably fair, to prevent them to tamper with outcomes, shall they be malicious and cheat if their game gains traction.
I am not saying they are malicious and that they will cheat ! I am just saying, why leave that possibility open ?

Thanks for your thoughts.  We looked at a couple of ways of doing this.  If the winning slot is chosen at start, we would know the slot to choose.  If the winning slot is chosen at the end we could favor some users over other users.

We did not like the idea of predetermining a winner and storing this information.  Currently, the site determines the winner as a random number once all slots are taken.

Provably fair is VERY important if you are bidding against the house.  We feel that the house advantage built into each blink and the 1% transaction fee is good enough to run the service.  The house wins with every blink and every deposit or withdrawal.  No need to mess with the balance of wins.

Unlike other websites, we need users to drive the lottery process on the website.  When a user wins, they will hopefully go on to blink several more times and engage more users.  We want our users to blink as much as possible and have fun :)

Having said that, we may change this methodology in the future if it proves to be a hurdle.

New promos posted to Twitter!  Players have won over $2,000 today from blinks.

Had fun playing with the promo btc.  :D
Too bad that I didn't win any game that I've participated in.

I have to agree with yogg, quite a nice and unique game indeed. This will be a good game once there are a few more players.

Is there any possibility to create a custom game? If not, I wish there is more game with a less amount of required btc to get a spot? Or maybe I just didn't noticed but the games I participated in was asking for a 0.002 btc as bet.

btw, the site takes too long when loading on mobile.

Thanks for the feedback Jacee.

We do intend on making the ability to create custom games once there are more users.  We figured that it may create too much confusion at this point.

We adjusted our template limits down now to allow people to make better use of promos  :)

registered and used a code, successfully lost 0.1 bonus eth :)
a few ideas- there are only that many different patterns of the pot available, wish there were 5-6 different ones with a wider variety of prizes
with time, when you gather stats , you will be able to see what kind of games are more popular ,I bet it would be the cheaper per entry ones
for example if a player depoes 0.005 eth, he won't be able to participate in more than one blink and the rest of his balance would be a deadweight (if he loses)
custom games should be a nice addition, also sad that you cannot enter more than one code,haha (not really,I understand that a 50$ for free several times would be too much)

all in all, yet another "share the pot" games , but it does look unique and better than the other 4 or 5  I have seen already
provably fair is an issue, we have to trust the owner doesn't do any shenanigans with the bets,also
if anyone has withdrawn the money from the site , please let us know, do not be shy
try the game if you can manage to get one of the codes and hope that there are still some that are online to not sit and wait for the spots to be taken

I did. I withdrew my promo winnings. Then I deposited some of that back. Both function works. :)

Its not just about the house, you can easily create your own account, go into one of the games and make yourself win in code.

I discussed this with our people and we will implement a provably fair routine over the next several days.

More importantly, new promo codes are on twitter.

Tried it with the promo code (0.004btc) but too bad I was not lucky enough to win against other users. Yes, the game works perfectly aside the issue about the provably fair system to generate the winner.
The promo code is also good as users are unable to withdraw it unless users are lucky enough to win from the free btc/eth promo. I have to agree about the suggestion to create a custom game so there will be much more available games to play where players are able to choose which amount that are suitable with their balance.

Nice concept and a unique game which it do have some decent bonus to try it up and it works flawlessly but im keeping my eye on next days about the provably fair on this one.


Same on my part where it do takes too long to load when i do firstly surfed this site on mobile but when i switch to pc there no problem.Hope it would be fixed.

Awesome! BTW, I want to report that there is no option to create an account or log in on the website when I am viewing it on my smartphone.

There also seem to be a bug or something with the USD value equivalent of the btc price, I have a screenshot here:

https://i.imgur.com/gzRj6Jc.png

I see that the limit for redeeming a promo code was also increased to once per week now?

At the time of writing 1 ETH = $ 290.49 USD.
So 0.00620000 ETH = $ 1.81
And 0.00210000 ETH = $ 0.61

Is there something I am not seeing?  I am currently sober but that does not mean anything.

The promo limit has been temporarily increased to 1 week while we work on additional features.

Ah! It was ETH. I didn't notice since I was playing with Bitcoin and I clicked on your link from OP and I guess it automatically redirect to the ETH blinks.
I apologise.

I see. I hope you can decrease the tine for redeeming promo again. I had lost all the BTCs I received from the promo code I used yesterday.  :D

Definitely.  There has been some hoarding of promo codes (imagine that).  We are looking at ways of curtailing it.  We hope to implement faucets instead this weekend which may help or provide an alternative to promos.

We are glad people are having fun though.  8)

It seems there is a little update on the game, the game was using $ but it is using mBTC but it makes a little bit confusion as user's balance is still shown in $ instead of mBTC. Hopefully you can use the same denomination on both balance and amount on the game.
I also want to complain about your registration process, as users are able to use any emails (even email of other people) to register because there is no email verification needed to create an account. It has significant effect especially about the promo code as user may register as many as accounts they wish by using any emails to abuse the promo. Create a new better promo that cant be abused easily like what you have now is much more better.

Thanks for the feedback.  Yes after feedback from several people, including the post earlier about currency, we made the blinks display as cryptocurrency only with tool tips to the currency in the user's profile.  We are looking at a couple of different ways of displaying this information on the menubar so it was not implemented at the same time.

There are a few promo mechanisms in place to prevent the same person from redeeming them but they can be bypassed.

Keep the feedback coming, we are loving it!  Thanks for everybody's help!

The referral program on this site looks confusing to me, as it seems that the site would only credit you for the first 4 blinks for every users you refer to the site when your referrals deposit either bitcoin or ethereum to play on the site. I think most gambling sites in the market would usually allow people to earn the commission on all the number of games played by your referrals, so it does not look attractive to refer anyone if it only allows you to earn commission for the first 4 blinks.

Good thing that you are providing promos constantly in your website but I do think you still need to focus on improving your website's design as it is really not appealing to some people including me. If I would give a fair comment to your website, it looks similar to poorly designed hyip sites I come across once in a while. If you don't want other visitors to have the same impression as I have try to make your website look more better to make it look more trustworthy in their eyes.

Honestly, I think the best for you would be to take the website offline now.
So you work on your website, make it social, community-friendly, and only then when it's all done, make a big party and relaunch it. :D

There is too much to fix "on the go" and people won't notice small changes. Better deliver something finished and polished. :)

Seems like a good game but the real problem is there are not enough users to participate. All the slots are open and waited for 1 hour to see anyone joining but, i couldn't find one. Is there a peak time to join the lottery?

i think its not fair to put promos on twitter .
i am checking there since first day and i couldnt pick single promo  ???

It seems that the admin of the site might need to find another way to attract more players to play on the site except giving out the promos code which is not working very well at the moment, the waiting time for a few players to join a game is too long and usually the funds will end up being refunded from a game as the blink expired.

LOL why it is not fair, they are free to share the promos anywhere they wish. Probably it is just not effective way, but nothing is unfair like you think. You were just too late to claim the code as I believe many people are bookmarking their account so they wont be late once they twit new promo codes.
Too bad, they have given away many codes but still lack of active players. Where are they who have redeemed the code? It could be more effective if they are giving away the promo codes in this forum with strict requirement such as forum rank so members are able to make an appointment with others when to play.

the main problem is twitter filtered in my country so every time i want to check there i should use proxy  ;D

The suggestions you have given will be nice additions to the gambling site but I don't think that it is necessary to shutdown the website temporarily, as it is possible that they update the website while maintaining operations with just one maintenance update just like what other gambling websites are doing. This is also a better way as even shutting down temporarily will provide discomfort to players. Their website being re-designed is really a must as the only thing I see missing is an attractive website and a well designed ANN thread here in BCT.

Faucet would be cool, even if users only get 2-3 plays at a bitcoin faucet (https://www.cryptogamblingsites.com/bitcoin/free-bitcoin-options/) per month or something.

Really wanted to test this out or see what the games look like.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback.  We are encouraged with the feedback we've gotten.  The feedback has been exceedingly useful and we will be in maintenance for the next 48 hours to review data and implement some of the new features that users have been suggesting.

On the list:
Finalize provable fairness
Ability to create custom blinks
Faucet with matching blinks
Promos for verified emails
And additional changes...

good ideas! faucet will help people to try the game,because the main problem is when you are unable to play even if you have balance
since there are none to blink with you :) custom blinks is another great idea - just make sure it has reasonable amount of slots
maybe increase the max amount of slots to 20 or so or allow higher prizes
also maybe want to cut the house edge a little, it is about 10% now if I'm not mistaken?
this makes 4 slot blinks a bad choice to participate at mathematically

The house edge is one slot.  So it varies depending on the number slots.  For example, if it is a 6 slot blink the winning amount is the total of 5 slots and the 6th slot goes to the house.

We thought this was the best way to approach it but the feedback we've gotten says otherwise.  We do intend on changing this as well in the near future.  Either a fixed percentage or paying back a loser a certain percent.

The house edge is very high if it is calculated based on 1 slot, some of the wagering amount for players to take up a slot in a game is quite high, and that would meant the profits for the winner of a game on high wagering amount would become lesser too if one of the slot goes to the house pocket.

I couldnt test site yet because i never get one of those twitter promo codes .
But what you saying is not clear.
1.Games have diffrent slot numbers (4 to 8 as i saw)
2.Wagering in games is different (1$ to 10$ i think)
These two situation makes your rules for house edge Unfair.
I Hope You find a Way to Handle and promote Your Business.
GoodLuck

I made that suggestion since there was no ongoing blink when I browsed the website. The last ones were expired.
Yes, that might upset the few players that have funds on the website, but there are a few key features missing for such a gaming website.

Once these are added, the game will benefit greatly from a "relaunch". People will rediscover the website, and this time they'll stick around.
With faucets. With low value blinks so people can always wager a few satoshis for the fun. Lower house edge. 100% of a blink ticket is too much. And many more improvements..

As I see it, this is one of the best moves for CryptoBlink. I may be wrong as I may be right.

We are done with our updates. 

 :) House edge has been adjusted to 1%-2% in every case except blinks under 500 satoshi - to make the numbers look pretty.
 :) An hourly faucet has been implemented
 :) Users can now create blinks

Our internal meeting this weekend focused around the look of the website.  We think that the current look does not fit our new vision.  The person that chose the current look was forced to stand on their head for over an hour.  (Not really)  We plan an updating the look of the website over the next week.

Thanks again to everyone for their feedback.

Faucet works Thanks!

very well done!
it is good to see admins and owners listen to the community and implement features based on the feedback
faucet is a good idea-it does let you try the game and get hooked,potentially
you won't be waiting forever to test the game and your strategies (I said strategies? haha ,ok )
the custom blinks are awesome! the only thing to watch for is the abusers trying to take advantage of it by shifting faucet money to one account and trying to beat the system
but I think you guys are on top of it already with the minimum withdrawal amount high enough for this not to work

Any alternatives that we should use?  We are going to start posting notices about faucet bonuses once or twice a day.

You could try to launch some of your site promotions on the games and rounds section, there are a lot of gambling sites that launched their promotions and giveaways on that section, I believe there are quite a number of users on this forum who frequently check out that section for certain casinos promotions and giveaways.

^^ this ,also Discord giveaway servers are cheap to set and pretty good in terms of marketing
if you are serious about your site, a blog , even  a simple Wordpress one,or a forum would be a good idea
and twitter giveaways are fine, just do not expect wonders when you are using one simple marketing tool
it has to be done on a regular basis and in conjunction with other social media promos too
PVP sites main problem-not enough returning customers ,this is why you have to think about retention-maybe use your on site chat more for some giveaways
at random times, faucet happy hours,affiliate bonuses (for example,increased affiliate comission for some time etc.)
be creative and good luck!

Posting it on your twitter is not effective because you have so low number of followers, your main target at the beginning is to promote your game first. This forum is more effective for it than by your twitter account, I also see new promo on your twitter account and I believe only few people are noticing about it. Do you think it is good? 

Less followers= Less exposure and as said above this forum itself would really be sufficient enough to make advertisements than on his twitter promotion and i agree to the fact that
games and rounds section would be more appropriate to post up when it comes to promotions since there are lots of people who do check out but expect there would be abusers.
Lots of possible ways on how to promote but to expect it will require effort and some funds.

And he did it again on twitter, I do not understand why he did it continuously while he got nothing. Even worst he is not even using attractive hashtags on the twit, something like #freebitcoin #promo #giveaway will be helpful to spread the news because I believe many people are searching for something free. No hashtags combined by 10 followers only, it might be the worst advertising strategy I have ever seen in twitter for bitcoin related project.

For these kind of business you should always took consideration on all the best factors that can really help to market your site as best as you can but as we all saw these arent the good ways or just completely useless.
It is understandable on newbie side even just trying out to include that twitter post on his options but as you said there were no hashtags. OP didnt online for days and might give some words on what we are suggesting here.

Patiently waiting to see if anybody will join/make a mega eth blinks with me. Want to do some 0.1 eth blinks

I guess the players on the site might need to wait for a long time for other players to play the blinks game with them, even with the new faucet system being implemented by the admin, there is still a lot of empty slots in all the blinks games, and I would say the chat room on the site is pretty quiet too.

Hopefully someone eventually deposits eth and plays in some mega eth blinks

After one weeks wait time, seen some slots getting filled. But still there are lack of players on the website. I can see that twitter promo earned some new members to the website. Happy to see that some familiar usernames from this forum. So, it is obvious that people are interested in this topic. Keep up the good work.

Yes, we have been pretty quiet on the advertising, promoting and promo front this week.  We are rolling out a new website design this weekend that we feel will be much more functional and provide great bonuses for players. 8)

with the faucet introduction it is easier for players to test the site,but to find even faucet opponents can take hours
then you are tired of waiting and also auto logged of by the site :)
what happens next-you close the tab, so the owners should promote more agressively to make sure there are players online
some suggestions: a weekly/monthly wagering competition where top spots are rewarded with some crypto or bonuses(like bigger faucet,rakeback etc.)
chat games and giveaways to make sure the social aspect of the site is used-people come to gamble and communicate too
buy some advertising at anonymous ads or the likes,it doesn't cost arm and leg but could drive more players

The new design looks good with the addition of the chat room for players to have chat with other players. You works on it well so far, at least you are trying to make it live step by step. I wonder what will you do next since the number of players is still so low, the design is more than enough at the moment so you need to focus on building the traffic up now. One thing to consider, make it mobile friendly as well. Now, it is not really good to access the site with mobile browser.

Thanks for the feedback.  The new design should load much quicker on mobile than the last one.  We do intend on putting more focus on mobile in the next week!

What characters I can use in my Site Verification Phrase? Whether there are some restrictions?

I don't know what is the purpose of the site verification phase at all to be honest
when I relog it is pre-entered and I cannot change it at all?
or is it some sort of test for me to make sure I do not enter a fake site or something?  ???
looks like a redundant thingy to me

I agree that the number of players is still too low
and now the faucet is not work for me, even I'm not use any vpn
https://i.imgur.com/1PGVi56.png

I thought it was something similar to captcha, so I typed the name of the object on the provided image. As you said, it is pre-entered after successful registration. So yeah, it has no significant function IMO. 
Regarding the characters, I don't think there is a restriction as I used upper and lowercase letter when I typed the name of the object.
 

I guess the admin of the site have started to reduce the amount of time to promote their site using twitter, it have been more than 1 week since they last made a tweet on their twitter account, but it seems that the admin have introduced a lighting bolt bot on their site now to rewards players with small amount of bitcoin or ethereum in the chat room.

What do you mean lightning bot? Are you saying they just implemented on their chat? I think is it really needed to have this lightning bot implemented on their chat system just to have a rain for active chat? I know some site did this and it is working well but I already tried their site on pc, it is working well but for mobile, it is not that good. Every graphic not on its position and it is hard to see what is going on there

IMO their lightning bot does not work like that, means it does not give rains to active users in chat but it gives rain for active users who are betting on the site. I did receive some satoshi some time ago, the more you bet the more satoshi you get from the lightning bot. Indeed it is not really good to play from mobile, that's why I suggested them to work on it previously. The site was even better on mobile before the last update.

I cannot see any blinks open for me
all I get is a permanent Loading status on all of the blinks, be it ETH  or BTC
using Firefox latest:

https://i.imgur.com/VDCMqkXh.jpg

I want to use russian cyrillic symbols but I receive a error with text "Site Verification Phrase Contains Invalid Characters". It will be fixed or i must think up something another?

The best browser to open cryptoblink is chrome IMO, once I open it with firefox I got the same problem as yours then I move to other browsers (chrome and opera) and it works fine.
By the way, where is OP? He is not active for more than a week now as well as on chat and his twitter account. Is he giving up on this project because there was not enough traffic?

interesting,it does work for me on Chrome
looks like it is Firefox that is displaying it like that
probably, the devs got to fix it somehow... only if they were active -seems like they abandoned the project?
there is not such a thing as not enough traffic, only bad marketing :)

Maybe you're right, but as we all know that it is not so easy to advertise pvp based game. So anyone who want to start a project which is pvp based game then he/she should be so smart enough to advertise and obviously he/she needs to be so patient in managing the project. Otherwise, the project wont survive if the owner is easy to give up just after few weeks/months from its launch.

Bad marketing it is. The site ran twitter promotions two or three times. But, there are only few followers on their twitter account and the people who were active on chat took the advantage of it. If they want to get more players they should advertise the promotions or at least mention them in this official thread. No one would dare to play on a website where there is no one to play the game.

I secretly hope that admins will return and keep the game alive
it is a good project, unlike some of the same concept games
but it does require attention and work to promote it and probably more money investment, too
meanwhile the game is deserted and there is abrely a single player online or in chat
and the FF bug is still there, by the way

Admin! I deposited around 50k satoshi but nothing is showing up in the pending!
https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/d640d9f69e561ad3663fdcd5dae8dce8573b06ba3b85ae0c0cbc12f56f915476

https://preview.ibb.co/d2UE3p/Capture11.png (https://ibb.co/iKriw9)

Edit: Balance got received, they just seem to have a bit of delay that's it.

https://preview.ibb.co/jUAF9U/Capture4242.png (https://ibb.co/mYdfb9)