What was your client for the hot wallet that you lost money in?  What brand? How did you lose the money?  Keyboard logger?

Yes, I agree, most of the time this is true.  But see this post below and consider the implications if the "canonical" blockchain had bit rot during this critical moment.

TonyT

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki     ("Marek Palatinus and Michael Marsee quickly downgraded their nodes to restore a pre-0.8 chain as canonical, despite the fact that this caused them to sacrifice significant amounts of money and they were the ones running the bug-free version.")

You make an ad hominem argument, in an attempt to sound authoritative ("most of your threads"), a common rhetorical tactic.

Educate yourself and get back to us (note the royal plural) by reading this thread, pay attention to the quoted language:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0050.mediawiki     ("Marek Palatinus and Michael Marsee quickly downgraded their nodes to restore a pre-0.8 chain as canonical, despite the fact that this caused them to sacrifice significant amounts of money and they were the ones running the bug-free version.")

TonyT

Why do you say I don't like gambling?  I play poker with friends all the time.  You are clearly Russian, as you speak in accusations, as is common in that country.  Also you are the front man, meaning the people who really built and backed your site are invisible.  Why they chose you, who speaks and writes badly in English, is a mystery, but possibly it's a very small group (probably relatives) and you are the only one that speaks passable English.  Anyway, as I say I wish you luck--you will need it.  I see you are hosting with GoDaddy, which is not my first choice for anonymity, as they will kick you off as soon as anybody complains (it won't be me, as I don't care what you do).  I bet you are in Russia however, where nobody cares about illegal gambling.  

Good luck!

TonyT

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Thanks for the answer.  Well that's nice, but with Google, they did have RAID and apparently that was not good enough.  Let me find the article... no, I could not, but LOL I actually see this thread is already indexed by Google, so let's stay on topic and be nice so posterity can benefit from reading this...  the best I could find is here: http://serverfault.com/questions/77710/is-bit-rot-on-hard-drives-a-real-problem-what-can-be-done-about-it

So in a RAID system, where there's all kinds of redundancy, you can have bit rot that creates problems. So why not also in the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network?  I think it's possible, if somebody says: "Adopt this blockchain, it is the best one" and they are trustworthy, and people adopt it, but the blockchain has bit rot?  Anyway I'm not going to worry about it, it's not my job.

From your site:  Payout: 1.980 X <=50.00.  So, on average, I lose 2%.  Is that standard with the other 'dice' shops?  If so, I see your point.  But if not, you are too expensive.  Anyway good luck, you'll need it.  If you get caught, the police in your country may ask for either a bribe, or, if they are European, will fine you and take away all your profits, maybe even jail you. 

I never said it is not fair.  What is your first language?  I speak several languages, maybe I can post in Russian for you?  But here's what I found about your site:  your payout is 98% on a 50% roll of the dice, meaning you (the house) takes 2%, whereas everybody else on this site:  http://bitcoindice.com/  only takes 1%

Why should we pay you twice what the other dice sites take?  What is so special about you?  That you have stock photos from Google Images of bikini models?  Please...do you think people are that stupid?  You don't even have live models.  I guess you believe, like PT Barnum, there's a sucker born every minute?  And sadly maybe you are right.

No 10965 is testing your site for random play.  He/she/it does not believe in the 'provably fair' stuff and wants to see if in fact the odds are fair.

It seems to me 10965 was betting mostly  0.00000000 BTC.  Why is this allowed?

Now 10965 is back!  Driving all the other users to the sidelines--why?  Why when 10965 plays, all the other IDs disappear?  {Edit:  OK they don't disappear but they seem to diminish}

That's the problem when they don't have a "show password" checkbox.  If you make the same mistake in typing the password twice, you're hosed.

As of this moment, your web page shows one user "10965" making all the bets.  Does not look good to me.  Who is user 10965?  is that a bot?  Where are the real people?

Anyway, good luck, since to be honest anybody who gambles is just looking for a pleasant experience while they lose their money, either slowly or quickly.  I would however use non-stock photo bikini models.  Aren't there any real models you can use from Ukraine or somewhere?

LOL why does Thiel use heroin as an example?  I would think pot is more common.  Sounds like he's trying to scare people.  Also wasn't he a founder of PayPal?  Yes.  So he has a vested interest in keeping his pals at PayPal happy (I'm sure he has friends there, even if he sold his stock).

Some clients who hire developers don't want their work product being shown to others; I would think this is the rule actually for most clients.  At best you can just use their name and say "I worked on building this project ABC at client XYZ".  That's why Google etc wants a face-to-face interview or at least over Skype so they can ask you their infamous programmer's questions on the spot.  But the OP is making an interesting proposal: if you don't like my work, don't pay me.  Haven't seen that before.

Where is the log file?  If it's in the menu or somewhere obvious I will find it.  I doubt my HD or memory is at fault, though I am pretty sure that if I switched to an SSD (as I might for other reasons) no doubt the entire process will be sped up considerably.

So you just make it up as you go along, or did you run the factors through a stats filter?  Re EMH, your empirical falsification would be Warren Buffet of course...

Good luck and let us know when it is open season to insult you... I'll be watching this thread. ;-)

Good recent article on Ebola here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/27/ebola-wars

Doctors and other health workers in West Africa have lost track of the chains. Too many people are sick, and more than two hundred medical workers have died. Health authorities in Europe and the United States seem equipped to prevent Ebola from starting uncontrolled chains of infection in those regions, but they worry about what could happen if Ebola got into a city like Lagos, in Nigeria, or Kolkata, in India. The number of people who are currently sick with Ebola is unknown, but almost nine thousand cases, including forty-five hundred deaths, have been reported so far, with the number of cases doubling about every three weeks. The virus seems to have gone far beyond the threshold of outbreak and ignited an epidemic.

Your canned response always includes an insult too?  How thoughtful (Not).

Although I doubt you will understand it, here is a paper [1] you should read and ask some grownups what it means.

Good luck with your market crystal ball gazing.  I expected to see a plea for donations for your so-called research, but happily I did not see you stoop that low.

TonyT

[1]
http://www.nber.org/papers/w20592

Hundreds of papers and hundreds of factors attempt to explain the cross-section of expected returns. Given this extensive data mining, it does not make any economic or statistical sense to use the usual significance criteria for a newly discovered factor, e.g., a t-ratio greater than 2.0. However, what hurdle should be used for current research? Our paper introduces a multiple testing framework and provides a time series of historical significance cutoffs from the first empirical tests in 1967 to today. Our new method allows for correlation among the tests as well as missing data. We also project forward 20 years assuming the rate of factor production remains similar to the experience of the last few years. The estimation of our model suggests that a newly discovered factor needs to clear a much higher hurdle, with a t-ratio greater than 3.0. Echoing a recent disturbing conclusion in the medical literature, we argue that most claimed research findings in financial economics are likely false.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_degradation ("Data degradation in memory can occur when the small electric charge of a bit in RAM disperses, possibly altering program code or stored data. The hypothesis that semiconductor RAM may occasionally be altered by cosmic rays[2] is also known as soft error.")

A while ago --within the last two years I think-- Google claimed that one bit in a server farm rotted (I vaguely recall this is a 1 in a 10^12 event, but if you have enough bits it's possible), and this error somehow propagated and crashed their entire network.  Given this was Google who hires the best talent money can bribe, I wonder what would happen if somehow the BTC blockchain, if there is a canonical or gold standard version somewhere, suffered data rot, let's say a solar flare produced lots of cosmic particles that caused an error?  Would the entire BTC ecosystem come to a screeching halt?  If it happened to Google, it can happen here? 

LOL I've been there, done that.  Not Algeria but close enough.  Not to get too far off topic, but why don't you like Electrum?  Have you tried Multibit?  It seems so far easy to use.

coinbase should be added to the list, for US people who don't care too much about privacy (or who plan to wash their BTC later anyway).  Coinbase also has a bad reputation when prices jump up or down; it is said they will cancel your transaction, but so far I've not heard them take anybody's money illegally.