We're doing a quick flip of bitcoin-core hosts, which unfortunately means that deposits will be queued for the next 20 minutes (and then processed). With any luck, this should be our last bitcoin-core related outage as we're moving to a wildly overpowered machine with plenty of diskspace this time.

Withdrawals should continue to work as usual.

Edit: Deposits have all been processed, thanks for your patience.

Gah. That was my fault indeed. I wasn't keeping track of the disk growth and bitcoind ate my 50GB SSD partition. I'm moving everything over to a bigger drive, and will give everyone a bit of a tip who was affected.

The issue has now been resolved, and for more affected users I've given them a x2 deposit tip. Enjoy!

Thanks, exactly the sort of feedback we're looking for. We're not a in big rush to switch to the new layout, so we'll wait till it's unequivocally better. On Monday or Tuesday we'll push up some dark colors (inspired from the late tothemoon.is), so we look forward to more brutal honesty =)

Thanks, and good ideas. We'll definitely add the timestamp thing too.


We've been optimizing the new client a bit more for mobile now: https://www.bustabit.com/play-new

Something involving a car crash breaking a fiber optic line.  It should have only affected bustabit gameserver for a couple hours, and there were no security implications =)

We've been working on a bit of a re-layout:

Here's an early preview: https://www.bustabit.com/play-new

What do you guys think?

If a site isn't being used, it doesn't add any extra costs or load to us so it doesn't matter =) However, when there's more MP casinos we plan on showing a feature matrix of them, showing off the most popular ones

We welcome more investors that understand the risks (and rewards) and choose to invest. I however was just saying that I personally don't want to put more money in (I already own around 100 of the bankroll), unless it was strictly required. 

What is your MP username? I'm reluctant to further dilute the existing investors, unless the bankroll limits really are too low.


MP itself actually stores everything internally in satoshis (and fractions there of) so it's up to sites to determine how to display it. Personally I prefer to get satoshis and divide it by 100, and call it bits. Other people prefer to divide by 100000000 and call it bitcoins. But it's really just the same thing, displayed in different ways.

..and we're back!


Yeah sorry, a horrible hack. I just did that so I didn't have to take the entire site offline. Wanted people to know their money is safe and accessible, even though the game wasn't.

Sorry guys, bustabit is down for emergency maintenance.  Give me a couple hours, and we'll be back online =)

Deposits (And more importantly: withdrawals) will still be processed, but the game is out of action

No one really doubts the solvency of PrimeDice, and in general I don't think it's big deal if non-investing sites show solvency or not. Sites that make extraordinary claims and investment sites should be held to a higher standard, though. In fact, I'd say it's absolutely critical in investment sites as it's our only proof that profits are generated from a means other than it being a big ponzi.

NLNico compiled a good list (in reply to the claim from DaDice that competitors also don't show solvency):

Our FAQ has a section on it. The short is, that it's extremely risky and there's no guarantees of profit. What ever you do put in there, there's a good chance you'll lose it, so never put more than you are ok with losing. However, in exchange for doing this, you do get +EV bets.



No, definitely not. We don't want to be the gatekeepers of that sort of stuff. However, if you do create a boring site that no one plays, you're not going to make any money.



You can deposit to the same address as many times as you like. However, we do continually generate new addresses, as it helps with privacy. In the receive tab in MP, you can see all the previous addresses that have been generated. However, if you like you keep reusing old addresses and they'll continue to work

That's right, if a casino bring in players they will get guaranteed, risk-free profit. They do however, need to bring in players which is harder than it might sound =)

Investors have an expected profit, but it's far from risk free (it's more like, crazy risky).  But the have the luxury of not having to do much



Because we want to enable a whole set of new exciting bitcoin gambling games, done by people who are more front-end and UX experts, who don't need to worry about doing the "hard" backend. It's really win-win. And not only that, I think gamblers are going to see in the next 6 months a whole suite of new games from developers who previously wouldn't have been interested in bitcoin games =)

There's some information in the FAQ about this. Basically the investors are *always* given only +EV, kelly satisfying bets (all other bets are rejected). Then if there's a difference between payouts that satisfying the investors, and a payout the gambler wanted (e.g. a commission) our standard structure is doing a 50-50% profit share. So the four parties:

* Gamblers :: Get the bet they want
* Investors :: Always get +EV, kelly satisfying bets
* Casino Dev :: Risk Free profit for bringing the gamblers
* Money Pot :: Risk Free profit for running the service

If you do update the list, could you rename MoneyPot to bustabit (it underwent a domain change, but under same ownership and same accounts etc.)

I'll second LuckyB.it trustworthiness rating being improved to an A+. As they have no investors, and have every bet occur in public it is both exceedingly hard for them to cheat (without being seen) and all the incentives aligned for them to operate legitimately.

Also it appears that satoshidice hasn't been responding to support issues for at least a couple months (source), so you might want to update the chart to reflect them or just remove them until they're back in action

We use aglio to generate them as part of our build process. It just generates a static html file, which then we serve up

Great question, they do use MoneyPot's balance as the bankroll and for that precise reason they don't have access to any privileged information. In fact, they know exactly as much as you know and you can actually create an app now ( https://www.moneypot.com/apps/new ) , and use the very same API that betterbets.io is using.

Actually, that's a good way to solve it. For 150 games, I can increase the bonus-pool by 20,000 bits in each game. That would be 3 BTC of giveaways, for one action-packed hour =)