Hello fellow bitcoiners,

I'm working on an open source project for a Bitcoin Proxy Market. This will facilitate things such as "I have 5 BTC. I want a $20 Dominos gift card. If you give me a $20 gift card, I'll give you 5 BTC."

The current source can be found here. Feel free to clone the repository and play with it, but it's nowhere near finished. If you want, fork it and add some features or fix something you think could be better.

What I really need right now is some designers who could work on a spiffy layout for it. While the project is GPL'd, I'm going for kind of a reddit thing where I have a website using the script, and anybody can take the script and do what they want with it. It needs a layout, or at least some better CSS design so it doesn't look like horse poop. I would do this myself, but I'm really an awful designer, as you'll see if you look at the code.

If you need help setting it up locally, I'd be glad to help if you have TeamViewer.

If you'd like to see it running somewhere (the part that's done, which isn't much,) let me know, and I'll put it up somewhere.

If you'd like to donate, as I have no income source, and am working on this all day every day, I would love you forever. You can donate here: 1EzsWF8oax5Ai41UWX5SNfUqFei5UhmdoF

~lulzplzkthx

EDIT: This plans to also have an escrow system, and a rating system, and will also use rating from the #bitcoin-otc system.

Do you really mean couching or coaching? I'm a little confused.

~lulz

This was kind of an ongoing joke with my brother and I back when I was <13, and COPA was in effect in the US.

Heh, that's how it goes.

Ah, that makes sense.

And if you do take the route of having a balance on the site, you should make it optional to have an account. One beautiful thing about it is just having to enter a Bitcoin address and be able to play.

I guess the deciding factor for me and whether I would create an account or not would be based on how long it's taking to receive the bitcoins I won.

Again, thanks for Bitcoin Toss, it's very enjoyable.

One other thing I might suggest, doood, would be reducing the number of confirmations required before payment is sent out. I haven't seen any double spending, and it's becoming less and less viable by the day (it really isn't viable at all anymore,) by the amount of miners. It's just annoying when I win a bunch of bitcoins, want to bet with them, and can't because I'm waiting for my payment.

Thanks,
lulz

Very cool, and I wish a store in my area would do this.

Why not start it, what's the worst that can happen?

It'd be nice if you had it set to pay the .01 transaction fee.

I've had nothing but GOOD luck with this, wayyy better than Double Trouble.

My one issue however is that recently payments have been taking exceedingly long times to get accepted in a block (like 24 hours.) Anything you can do about this?

~lulz

Also, I've had noticeably worse luck on Double Trouble than Bitcoin Toss.

It doesn't worsen your chances per game, it worsens your chances to make all your money back.

1/6 * 6 = 1
1/6 * 4 < 1

Wow. That is beautiful. Very nice job, and I might try it out in a few minutes.

Very cool.

Hey MoneyTree,

I love Double Trouble and have been playing it quite a bit but the site seems to sometimes be plagued with FastCGI errors. It's usually not a problem until you run into an issue like I just had where I tried to play my 5 BTC, and the page gave a "FastCGI Error". I refreshed the page, hoping that would fix the problem, and after a minute of loading it said "One Pay Per Play Please!!" So I'm a little concerned as to whether the bet actually got played or whether it ended up in nothing-land considering the page could have error'd before it got to the actual playing part.

Thanks,
lulzplzkthx

I think he meant 100 bitcents vs. 1 bitcoin.

Here's my question: Should Bitcoin be capitalized when you are referring to the unit? "I have 10 bitcoins." "I have 10 Bitcoins." Following English rules, I'm thinking no, but I see it both ways. Frequently.

I couldn't say. Truthfully, at the moment, I have my own shell from a server my friend owns, but I may need some good web hosting in the future. I'm used to shell and FTP for everything though, and would really enjoy having the option to connect via SSH.

Again, at this moment I don't need the hosting, but I may soon.

I seriously lol'd.

I read the first post and was like "That's weird for the Marketplace."

Someone responded normally and I'm like "huh..."

Go to your post, and I laughed cuz I didn't really realize it either. XD

I'm not sure, but I'm not even asking for cheaper, just asking if you might consider a plan which includes both web hosting, and a shell to that web host.

I think it's odd that the shell costs more than the web hosting.

What do you think about a combined package with hosting and SSH access or a shell to it?

And how many background processes would a 'screen' take up?

Is this "real" Blackjack where you can card count, or "fake" Blackjack with random numbers?

Just curious. Looks very nice!

~lulz

Suggestion: Put the "send to" address in the header, and make it large and visible.