What exactly is not looking good, molecular? The site does go into offline mode every now and then but always comes back and catches up.

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/238103

Now we plummet?

Should be all good now.

It seems to be DONE now. Just to explain, PENDING is when it is still being processed, or it has been processed and the system is waiting for confirmation from the ripple network or coin chain. ERROR may or may not be fatal, meaning something went wrong. Some errors are automatically retried (such as when there's a high load on the server and ripple refuses to process transactions because it is too busy), while others need manual intervention.

Thank you for your business!

You'll need to start the client with -txindex=1 so it keeps an index of all transactions (and not just the ones involving your wallet). It will take some time to build the index first time you run it, and you'll also need to pass -reindex=1 that first time.

You missed the oldest bitcoin lottery (are you including lottery sites?) at taabl.net, and while on the dice subject also diceoncrack.com, both being half abandoned by players but still fully operational.

[edit] - I didn't mean to be stealthy or misleading, I am the coder behind both these sites so I'm not vouching for them as a neutral party, just calling attention to them.

Might not be exactly what you are after but you can use Dividend Rippler to get LTC into ripple and trade for XRP (amongst any other currency others are willing to trade). DR isn't handling any of the exchange parts, though, it is a simple gateway.

Sorry about the hiccup. Your transaction was sent to the ripple daemon, which is why the tx hash was present in the details page but then it was never confirmed (nor denied), which left it in a limbo state. I have resent it and I'll work on trying to prevent this from happening again.

Thank you for your business and patience!

Thank you

A little trivia; I developed the first lottery site for bitcoins (waaaay back) called The Amazing Anonymous Bitcoin Lottery, or TAABL for short, something that caught the eye of TTBit who requested a few changes to it, and we have been working together ever since. He eventually came up with the idea of DICEonCRACK and it did have a good success at the time.

It's still ticking and I have plans to improve it, but the amount of attention it gets makes it a low priority since time isn't abundant. Both sites and an anonymous ripple bridge TTBit and myself run are linked in my signature.

Hi,

Did you send a wager that didn't get processed, or was it showing the 'wager processing for BTC is offline' message?

To everyone suffering from the extended delays, we're really sorry about it. The system has a few safeguards that lock it when anything unexpected happens, and can only be unlocked manually after we review things. Add that to a complete lack of time I've had today and you have the reason for this last delay.

Usually it is just losing sync with the ripple network, the resync process can take a few hours.

Sorry for the delays. Everything should be processed now, it just takes a good while to resync sometimes.

I'm assuming you didn't read my last reply... "this list" was an idea that never saw the light of day, really. Just offer your services in the Forum, I guess, and people will tell you what verification they deem needed, but be prepared to offer some real life data for any non-trivial amount.

Nice necro-bump

This idea of mine never picked up so this is likely a bad place to seek such service. I'm afraid I can't offer much advice either, but the Forum is full of escrow offers, just make sure you are careful and do a little investigation of your own on the chosen member history before sending anything!

DividendRippler does not allow for trading, it is a gateway. In order to use it you need to have a funded account, thus you'll need some XRP to boot. If you want to buy XRP with BTC from DR you can only do this after your account gets the initial funding, I'm afraid.

There are many giveaways on https://ripple.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=17 and help for newbies is offered extensively at https://ripple.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=5. Particularly https://ripple.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2034 might be a good place to get your initial XRP if you are ready to pay back the offer to someone else once you get funded.

Are we on a net split again? I have

22441      10105875265190846103      12/22/2013 9:46:51 PM   
21      0 + 22      3'159 B   
1      1982145270283694244      5792 %   

and

22443      9423488697815909938      12/22/2013 10:01:02 PM   
99      501'247 + 108      13'942 B   
1      6729130164786521364      23170 %

Last one is

22452      2584657662098653454      12/22/2013 10:12:06 PM   
1      0 + 1      156 B   
1      1038686344906257040      5642 %   

As usual, since you don't seem to think your location is important, you're likely American, right?

So... I'm usually news agnostic as it makes very little difference to me in the short run (I'm in it for the long run), and thus I don't keep myself up to date or attentive at all but this seems too obvious to be a coincidence;

- China says "bitcoin probably alright", price jumps ten fold
- China decides they're through buying USD (read it somewhere, might have read it wrong)
- China says "bitcoin is somewhat illegal, you have a short timespan to get out", everyone sells, price drops

Now, if it was me I would say 'China says' is a great market direction trigger, and if I were China (govmnt) I would buy as it drops (sure, it's illegal... for the common people) and then by CNY say "good news, bitcoin's probably alright again", thus re-inflating all the coins bought cheap.

Is it not just a tad bit too obvious?

Yeah, I'm probably just confusing things. I could just write a simple python library wrapping the NXT api and use my own client for the sending and receiving. Can you share the exchange API, the methods not included in the default client?

Would this be a good alternative to anyone needing to interface with NXT as a service? Or is this just an exchange interface (no simple 'send from this account to that account')?