I think it's just a matter of time before people start to trust it. I'm wondering if I should cut it down to maybe 5 tickets rather than 10 tickets, but I wanted the tickets to remain fairly cheap.

If in a few months nothing really changes I'll refund the ticket purchases and send back all of the bitcoins. I'm constantly watching it along with this thread.

News flash to Keynesians:

There is no guarantee that Bitcoins will be worth more in the future, but even if they are worth more, people prefer to have stuff they want NOW rather than LATER.

For example, I know that in six months, I can get a better and cheaper computer for less money than I can today, so why do I buy one today? BECAUSE I WANT IT NOW.

The fact that there is exchange of currency proves this whole theory false, because the theory is there would be no exchange if everyone thinks the currency will go up in value, yet if you look at the market place, there are transactions being made.

This theory is absurd and false, can we focus on real stuff now? Thanks.

Don't worry, the government will band crowdfunding.

You know, for your 'protection'

Looks like we got our first players.

Still looking for the first testers. Might throw a few bones to the first members for giving it a shot if that'll help.

No tickets have been bought yet, once a ticket is bought it will show the username of the owner in the slot. The round ends when all of the tickets are bought.

I currently have two 20% discount code for products sold on the logitech.com store. These will save you 20% off an *entire* order, I'm not sure what the market value would be for these but I thought I might offer these two for 2 BTC each to start.

I may be able to get more if there is any kind of demand for these.

Confirmed. Thank you.

Changing prices after we sent you the stuff? Seems iffy to me man.

You should honor it for the posts before you made your announcement, otherwise it smells like a bait and switch. Sorry.

I've added 3 new rounds in case people want to try it without using as much BTC.

0.5 BTC Jackpot/0.06 BTC Tickets
0.25 BTC Jackpot/0.03 BTC Tickets
0.1 BTC Jackpot/0.012 BTC Tickets

These are manually created rounds, but if these are more desirable I'll code them in so there is always lower jackpot rounds.

Sent PM. Just send to bitcoin address in signature.

I have an empty American Express one, is that of any use to you?

It sounds to me like I could accomplish something quite similar by exposing the seed that was used during a particular round. But the thing is there is no guarantee that you can replicate the number generated from that seed on a different system. If I'm mistaken and someone can in-fact replicate the numbers on another system, I'd be happy to expose the seeds used for each round.

I have updated the random number generator to use data from Hotbits. Every hour or so it will request a fresh data from Hotbits, this data is then used in addition to microtime() when generating a seed.

The code looks like this:

The $Seed[1] is unpacked data from Hotbits. This can be improved in the future, but should be way better than a simple rand().

I'm going to be changing the random number generator to use random data from Hotbits in the seed (as well as changing it to use mt_srand/mt_rand). The data from Hotbits will be in addition to microtime() when seeding.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/

It's still using the previously mentioned code, but I should have it using Hotbits by tomorrow as the majority of the code has been completed.

Somer blink didn't come up with the concept of 'blink'.

I think I'd have more to gain by running a legitimate game, rather than another scam. But I would like to resolve this issue if I can.

The winner is selected by the ticket number, and I calculate it the following way:


Are there any trusted third parties where I can obtain a random number from, something that you guys can track?

I have considered making it so you can view a players win history, their ticket purchases, which ticket they purchased and for which round, along with any withdrawals. I could provide the transaction id when they withdraw Bitcoins, so that you know Bitcoins are being legitimately withdrawn.

I have also considered doing away with the username altogether, and making it just a Bitcoin address. Right now when tickets are purchased, it shows the username of the owner. So you can tell if a single person owns most of the tickets.

But I’m totally open to other suggestions.

Hey all,

This past week I've been working on a Bitcoin game. The site is still beta, but should function somewhat normally. You'll have to forgive the design since I'm kind of a novice when it comes to web design, this is actually an off-the shelf template which I threw out all of the existing PHP code and built upon it.

Here's how the game works.

The game has 'rounds', each round has a jackpot (for example, 1 Bitcoin). There are then ten tickets. Once all of the tickets are purchased, the game randomly selects a winner and awards them the jackpot. Players can purchase more than one ticket to increase their odds (however, purchasing all of the tickets costs you more than the jackpot).

Right now, the game creates a new round when there are no active rounds.  I’ll eventually set it up to where you can view the past few rounds to see who won them, perhaps even a stats page for each user.

Players always have at least a 1 in 10 chance of winning the round. If people enjoy the game and use it, I intend to make much larger jackpots and different kinds of games.

The website is: http://btcblink.com

Technical stuff:

Registration just requires a username and an email. A randomly generated password is emailed to you for security reasons, I have not yet implemented the function to change your password, or to retrieve your password. So make sure to put your password in a safe place.

The payments are handled by Paysius, so if there are any known issues with this payment processor that I'm not aware of, please let me know. I'm quite impressed with how it works so I figured it'd be better for me to use that, rather than to re-invent the wheel.

A single unique Bitcoin address is generated on registration to handle payments for the user, I don’t see the point of regenerating new addresses for each user every login for this application, but if there is a reason to I’d love to hear it.

Or just print more money!

Seems like absolutely nothing.