What we have here is a situation where someone appears to be actually beating the house edge over many thousands of bets.
Operating a gambling site myself I can tell you it's absolutely normal people starting with 0.1 BTC and leaving with 2 BTC profit but those people dont call much attention. It's not that remarkable to make 2000BTC when starting with 100BTC. The difference is: not many people make so high bets and the long term for house profit might get a bit longer. |
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update: reduced minesweeper house edge from 2% to 1.5%  |
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- Minesweeper has now a reduced house edge of 2% - New promo: |
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Well... the winner was determined according to the rules in a provably fair drawing. When I start disqualifying people on the drawing day for "violating" newly introduced rules there would be other people claiming this unfair and shit for sure (and justifiable)... tell me what would have happened if i disqualified everyone who changed the font size or put it on a place where it was not visible in a 800x600 resolution for example? Nevertheless I've changed the rules for the next round and I hope no one will feel offended this time  |
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rules edited, drawing method finalized, cheater disqualified.
@boelens: yes, confirmed. ig0r.v is co-founder
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No, bad. Using modulus will skew the results, allowing some people an unfair advantage. Unless 'n' is a divisor of the maximum possible value for RND, skew is inevitable.
oh right. the advantage would be negligible low but nevertheless making it divisible will do it: $winner = floor( hexdec(substr($hash, strlen($hash)-8, 8)) / $n) % $n + 1;
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New: Scratch tickets
If you uncover three identical prize amounts on one scratch ticket, you instantly win that prize.
I know in this forum you attach great importance to provable fairness. To make it short: scratch tickets are not provably fair. We had different approaches but while developement it turned out that in instant lottery style games it always comes to the point where you simply can not proof that you don't take the big prizes yourself. Nevertheless we give it a try cause I personally love scratch cards and I think it's unique and more fun than yet another dice or chaingame.
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Very good question. I'm working on this right now  this is my first draft: - All participants will get a number from 1 to n in relation to their nicknames in alphabetical order (participant list here) - Random number RND will be the decimal value of the last 8 characters of the first bitcoin block hash on the drawing day - Winner is the participant with the number (RND modulo n) + 1 |
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Edit - what's up with the referral link? Or more to the point, it's being censored.
You need at least 10 (? not sure) posts before you can use links in your signature. |
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Participate in this raffle by placing this into your signature and post your btc-address to this thread:
Rules:
- No fake, inactive or duplicate accounts (at least 5 "real" posts a week, not in giveaway threads and such)
- Signature must be visible and remain for the whole time
- Drawing will be on mondays, first drawing is on July 1st
- If you start until friday your first draw will be next monday otherwise a week after
- One random participant will get 0.5 BTC + jackpot
Drawing:
- Lucky number is the last 8 characters of the first block on the drawing day.
- Participiants are listed here in alphabetical order. The one who matches the lucky number gets the money.
- For the very, very unlikely case that there is no match we will take the next block until a winner is found.Drawings + winners: 2013/07/01: biea 2013/07/08: Moogle 2013/07/15: PurpleTentacle 2013/07/22: kuriboh 2013/07/29: renovatix 2013/08/05: Edit: Discontinuing. 2013/08/05 will be the last drawing. |
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