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nice game! just sad nobody is playing otherwise i would do too  :-[

it's  wrong
https://p50pot.com/current.html

profit should go to the 16... address right ?

are you scamming me?  :o

I was interested at first but  then I read this : "Bots are welcome." So if this is purely mathematical game and bots are allowed why humans (unless they are some genius level mathematics here) want to play this game. I am not a calculator after all.

I was interested at first but  then I read this : "Bots are welcome." So if this is purely mathematical game and bots are allowed why humans (unless they are some genius level mathematics here) want to play this game. I am not a calculator after all.

yes, there is not that much to calculate because almost never you are the last one and next people will wagger what they think is the best regarding their bet
a bot cannot beat it and it's fair since the same rules count for everyone
anyways my recent deposit (really small) doesn't show up
and is it max 100 mbtc per address/per person or per transaction id?

when a block is created it takes 2 minutes before something changes on your website, can you change that?
this will cause many people to still make a deposit, waste mining fees etc.

what happens when you send from more addresses?

This is good feedback. Thanks you! I will look into this later today.

Nothing special, use as many address as you'd like. Just keep in mind that prizes are sent back to the address which originated the deposit, so always use an address you control yourself (no web wallets).

i mean when you send from more addresses in 1 tx id
i mean address A and B send 0.001 btc to address C in 1 transaction for example
this is what sometimes happens when you have more wallets and use for example blockchain.info

So, If you bet a large amount, you are more likely to win than if you bet a small amount. Have I understood it correctly?
It's not easy for me to get the way of playing  :-\

It is very open ended. If you deposit a large amount AND you're the only one doing so, then yes, this might increase your chance of winning. However, if another person is doing the same thing... then you lose your edge. A small deposit can then land between the two big ones, and win a hefty sum.

There's always a certain aspect of luck, no matter how smart you get. And there is always an aspect of strategy, no matter lucky your opponents are :)

So, the round ends when the next block is mined?

is there any maximum bet limit? because if I go and bet 10 bitcoins or 100 then I will probably win...

Exactly, round ends when the next block was mined.

A single deposit is limited by 100mBTC, exactly for the the very reason you specified. A larger deposit will be automatically refunded.

So,what happens if two people bets 100mbtc? it's a draw? who wins?

Both wins, each collects half the pot. See https://p50pot.com/round.html?r=351176 for example.

nice match(didn't win) I did what I could,but tournament said the first prize was 10,what does that mean in bitcoin?

Fun idea, but most importantly great execution! Bravo.

With a quick script, it's it's extremely easy to "aim" your bet with with creating and discarding hundreds of thousands of transactions -- so that's going to make it pretty difficult for regular players using a normal wallet, who will scatter fire. And correct me if I'm wrong, but lets say I want to "aim" between txid A and B, I am better off not picking any random hash that happens to fall between them, but instead generate a huge set of them, and pick one that lies extremely close to either A or B. That is, so it would be extremely computationally difficult for someone to intersect my bet and A and B. Which would mean, with optimal software the game would favor people who can generate a large amount of tx's/second.

Anyway, love what you've done. Glad to see some fresh thinking on the scene =)

Spending all that computing time does not necessarily gives a real advantage.

Wouldn't the dominant strategy be along the lines of "Look at all the transactions you think will make it in, then create a txid that will land you on the median"? But the more iterations you do of that, the harder and harder it becomes to bisect that range. Even after only a small amount of iterations, it could become extremely computationally expensive to find a txid near the median, and then trying to move that mass to change the median could be rather expensive and suboptimal

Wouldn't the dominant strategy be along the lines of "Look at all the transactions you think will make it in, then create a txid that will land you on the median"? But the more iterations you do of that, the harder and harder it becomes to bisect that range. Even after only a small amount of iterations, it could become extremely computationally expensive to find a txid near the median, and then trying to move that mass to change the median could be rather expensive and suboptimal

my winning https://blockchain.info/nl/tx/79fcf91fb79e5d0bbd9d63422ba7335388f0db18e69ebec532baea3a9a6dd141  ;D

I have read the rules, but looks like players could cheating easily by send more bitcoin so his old transaction could in the middle & become the winner
Anyway, i have try with 0.004BTC ::)

I hope i'll win

This looks like the largest win to date, congratulation leen93  8)

What happened?
The owner of this website (blockchain.info) has banned your IP address (-***).

this is fun, can't reach my bitcoins  ::)

This is good feedback. Thanks you! I will look into this later today.

I cant understand who wins?

Could someone explain to me like I was 3 years old?
Ty!

Imagine each deposit is a book. The larger the deposit, the thicker the book.
Now, imagine we stack all the books back to back. The winner is the book in the middle.
So, if there's a thick book, it is more likely to occupy the center.
Lastly, each round is a different stack and a different winner.

It is pretty simple :)

Yes but, what is that occupy the center? The center of what?

Looks like a nice concept, but just a suggestion, might be a good idea to start a few free rounds, just to get people to get a hang of it. Also it seems the main requirement is it requires people on the site to play.

And I have a question about the fees system. It says 1 mbtc every 10 participants. So how is fees taken, say if 4 people play a round, and 6 play the second ? So is 0.0001 taken from each by default ?

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