don't worry your btc is safe

it still shouldn't tell you that the address is invalid, I've updated a code a bit, try it now. (reload page)

and I've changed the confirmation requirement to 2, so you'll be able to cash out sooner.

strange, can you give me your username and an address you are trying to use?

haha thanks

thanks for the feedback, I'm planning a rewrite soon (will move payment processing to blockchain.info to offer instant payouts) and I'll include more details about referals..

ok, founds are in

hey, server was out of founds during the last hour, sorry about this, founds are on their way and you'll be able to withdraw soon.

thanks nyusternie..

yup, the game is provably fair, which also lets me sleep well as I don't have to lead vey long conversations about cheating.
rickylford, I have a feeling that my luck is the same, and I'd have the same worries

let me explain it in detail for people that don't know what hashes are, and I'll use this for faq later..

hashing generates that long random looking string (called hash) from any data. its like a signature for the data, any change in the original data would completely change the hash. its commonly used for data validation, for example application installers tend to check the hash of the thing they'll install, verifying that the data isn't somehow corrupted. communication protocols do this, and applications with any-cheat or piracy protections..

a hash (sha256 is the type of hash I use here) looks like this: 29acdf9aaed991265c97e5b9e2a5d699b66194bced0f87aa3cfeb14200532072
also, hashing is a one way function – you cannot get the original data back from a hash. (which is obvious, you can't store a lot of data in a little of data. if you could, you could hash everything on your disk and just keep this one hash instead of all the data)

you can play around with hashing to get the feeling for it on one of the online hash calculators http://www.xorbin.com/tools/sha256-hash-calculator

so, how does the game prove that it isn't cheating?
you are given a hash before you start playing, after the end of a game, if you click on that hash, the server displays the original string that got hashed, which is a text based field representation and a small random string, which proves that the server has generated a fixed field before you started playing, and its not deciding on positions of mines after each click.

the string looks something like this:

[[0,0,1,0,0],[1,1,0,0,1],[1,0,0,1,0],[1,0,0,0,1],[0,0,0,1,1]] jsmrHbNZR0SWT7BH

(you can now use any hash calculator to verify that a hash of this string is really the one that the server displays)

this small random string at the end (jsmrHbNZR0SWT7BH) needs to be as there are around 30 million possible minefield combinations, and a player could generate hashes for all possible combinations and find out the current mine configuration by matching the hash a game displayed.

I'm just being paranoid

someone is trying to hack the service, which is nothing new, but I've seen some weirdness so I'm making sure that everything is fine, the service will go online shortly.. in any case, users shouldn't be worried, most of the balance is in the offline wallet and your bitcoin is safe.

ok, everything is fine

noticed some weirdness, the service is offline while I investigate

great! glad you like the idea.

looks really well done, I'm surprised that there aren't any replies in this topic.. few months ago a similar service went online and people were really interested, but it was buggy.

hey people!

I think that bitcoin related games are missing a skill and multiplayer components.
so I've made a web framework and an html5 game engine on top of nodejs.

I needed a sample game, started working on some kind of multiplayer tetris, realized that that's super boring, and ended up making a bomberman clone, as I really like bomberman. the idea is that players put some bitcoin in, play bomberman against each other and the winner takes all.

its also a good game choice I think as its not totally trivial to create a bot for it.

the game engine supports replays, infinite maps, and other cute stuff. I might create a 3d renderer for a game in three.js or something later

I'll need test players in the following days. and those interested for alpha play, please register at

http://bomberman.bitcoinlab.org/

and here are the two screenshots

http://bitcoinlab.org/bomberman1.png
http://bitcoinlab.org/bomberman2.png

current graphics are placeholders only, its very probbable that I'll create a public contest for sprite desings with some bitcoin amount as a reward.

bye!

this is an incoming transaction, not an outgoing one. and it was received properly, you played the game and you lost everything. there were no outgoing transactions.

and about the other one, its very improbable for the transaction to dissapear from a transacrion list if it was displayed at any point.
this data never gets deleted, and it gets sent to a client once its in the database. so I'm guessing that you have a wrong account.

I can't help you if you can't show a problem to me. and I'm repeating, I'd have a chance of somehow finding your user if you didn't wait for 5 months.

I do not log from which addresses the transactions came, as the data is commonly not trivial, afaik not exposed by bitcoind, and I don't have any use for it.
I could look over recent transactions by hand if you were to give me this info right away, but this was 5 months ago.

in order to locate your user I need more information, like, transactionid, your username, addresses you sent bitcoin to, your exact balance, anything more.

are both of you the same person? you sound similar

you are the first ones reporting this, please send me any info I can use to locate your users and resolve this. like transaction id or your username.

hey,
yeah, you are having some kind of problem,  the site can't connect websockets to the server, your network is probably not allowing connections on all the ports to remote services..

you should have buttons to chose the bet above the minefield.

hey, pmed

I'm pretty sure that its working fine.
if you click on a referal url multiple times, it won't count as another user being refered, clear the cookies on a browser you are clicking with inbetween clicks