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Well guys, it breaks my poor digital heart, but TAABL has been aching and moaning for some time now, from sheer lack of attention from both myself and the site users. I really have no choice but to take it down.

This means I need everyone to go and grab their coins there so I can take the server out of its misery. A side effect of the Anonymous part is that I have no way of contacting the users, other than here on the Forum. There isn't all that much there, but I would hate to see the site hacked and stolen, so please do withdraw what you have.

This is not the end of the lottery, no... there are plans and there are projects and there are paradigm shifts (how very web 2.0 :) ) but for the time being there are many more lottery sites on the bitcoin ecosystem for you to waste your hard mined bitcoins at.

I'm planning of taking the server offline on August 15, so why are you still reading this? go to TAABL (http://taabl.datlatec.com) now ;)

bump to keep it in the news / recently updated threads.

Thanks for the bump, I'll try to do the same every day or as close as I can to that.

i think every 12h would do the nice balance between forum spam and an honest attempt to warn users.
maybe bitcoin media where you previously advertised might reach some more people.

Thread title = library?   ???

Oops :) Yeah, I use many libraries when coding, some words just kind of stick out. Thanks for spotting that!

Well, I have only ever advertised here. Anyway I'll be sure to push harder when closer to the shutdown time, but for now I'll try to avoid over spamming.

Why not ask a moderator to sticky the thread until the site goes down?

Yeah, I have done that earlier, thanks. I don't think that's needed yet, but certainly for the last week it would be great.

I haven't taken part in TAABL, but to me it looked like the lottery could have been called "Going Down", or maybe the fees were going down. You could edit the title to be more alarmist, like "The Amazing Anonymous Bitcoin Lottery is SHUTTING DOWN, withdraw your funds!"

Really? I know English is not my first language, but I do like my title :) Anyone else feels this way?

Also; *bump*

lmao

PS: O título é óptimo ;)

Time for another *bump*...

Yeah, I also got the impression that Going Down was the title of the lottery, that it was some kind of new twist or something. But I guess anyone participating would know what the thread is about anyway.

Still plenty of time, but the clock is ticking...

*bump*

*bump* again. I may not be around this coming week, so next bump might be in August :(

*b b b bump* again.

tick, tock, tick, tock...

9 days to go.

Less than 8 days left

6 days to go...

5...

and four days left...

So Monday is the day I advertised the lottery site is going offline. I'll probably do it on Tuesday to avoid any timezone issues. After that happens I will still be able to refund any coins there, but it will be much harder to verify user identities, so if you haven't done so already, please collect what's yours asap.

*bump* two days to go

Tomorrow's your last chance...

Last day today, if you haven't done so already go to taabl.datlatec.com (http://taabl.datlatec.com) and withdraw any coins you might still have there. The server is going offline first thing tomorrow.

It's going down for real??

Talk about a necrobump :)

It did go down for real, back in 2011, but came back with a slightly different set of rules. Now, many updates later, it has become all but abandoned, despite my poor attempts at getting people interested again.

As such this historic service, the first ever automated bitcoin lottery, will likely go down soon. But it had a good run :)

Wow, this website is ancient. Keep it up, don't take it down! If you rebrand this into a sort of jackpot website, it would be great.

It has undergone a healthy number of updates and rule changes across the years, and, time permitting, I'm always available to make it better. The thing is there's a real effort in keeping this thing working, and if it get abandoned by users it is just wasted time. When it first started there was quite a bit of volume to it, of course, but then came competition, lots and lots and lots of it and even if I think I did it better than others, these others are *much* better than me at PR and publicity (I suck there), so as new users came and gone, taabl was all but forgotten.

I may try to put some effort in once more, we'll see :) What exactly do you mean "a sort of jackpot website"?