I'm not good at staying away, sorry. I don't know if you are growing or not, and I'm not bothered whether you are or not.

I didn't say you were a Ponzi scheme. I said that your "so far we are still allowing withdrawals" argument is typical of Ponzi schemes.

I know what a Ponzi scheme is, thanks.

There's no point leaving feedback after a site has run off with everyone's coins and shut down. The time to warn people is before it's too late, not after.


I can't speak for anyone else, but the reason I didn't leave feedback for btcbook.eu is that this is the very first time I heard of them. It's not my job to make sure I leave negative feedback for every dodgy site out there. If I see something suspicious, I mention it. DaDice's behaviour seems suspicious to me, so I mentioned it.


I don't think anyone can know yet whether DaDice is going to scam their players or not. There's no proof either way. I can't say it's a scam, and I don't think you can be sure that it isn't. DaDice probably gets more attention because they pay to have more attention. There's probably nobody on this forum who hasn't seen a DaDice ad whereas btcbook.eu are relatively obscure.

That is what every scammer says while they're in the "building trust" phase of the scam.

Try going to any Ponzi scam thread and warning that it is a scam. Their first defence is always "but we are paying"...

CLAM is proof-of-stake. You earn coins just by holding them. When you invest in JD, JD earns coins just by holding your coins. We give 90% of the earned rewards back to you.

That line is saying that we've earned a total of 196k CLAM from staking, the of the 1 CLAM we just earned you got 14 satoshis, and that in total you have earned 12216 satoshis from staking.

It's added to your investment when the message is displayed, in real time.

There's no way of being exposed to no risk, but by default you are exposed to very little risk.

See the FAQ about "offsite investing". Many investors use that feature to increase their risk (and in so doing, to reduce yours).

Are you a witch or something? That's uncanny...

Anyway.

Just-Dice has 513k CLAMs and stakes about 1200 times per day:

>>> 1200 / 513e3 * 100
0.23391812865497078

So that's 0.234% per day. (JD investors pay 10% commission on staking rewards, so should get ~0.21%)

You can expect the same, but with higher variance.

And the rate will decline over time, since the global rate is a constant (1 per minute) but the total active staking money supply is growing.

I've been thinking the same thing. I'm not really in a position to make such a list, since people would think I'm biased. But when I see people like these sawdice jokers knocking good provably fair systems for silly reasons like "the server seed doesn't change every roll" it makes me want to...

And probably the only one that doesn't advertise, and one of the few to allow players to have themselves banned from betting.

You'll never see us posting here encouraging anyone to bet. Those "look how much this guy just won, see how easy it is, you should try it too!" posts made by other sites make me feel ill. It isn't easy to beat the house edge, and it isn't "easy money". Pretending that it is feels bad to me.

For similar reasons we don't offer an auto-bet feature so that delusional players can run their "system" while they sleep...

Why not? They almost never just say "OK, you were right, it was a scam". There are always vaguely plausible excuses: "a rogue employee deployed a nonce-skipper", "transaction maleability drained the cold wallets", "our site was hacked", etc. dice.ninja was the cleanest in that respect - they just disappeared one day and that was that.

There's clearly a legitimate issue with them... they have no limit on how much you can bet, but had admitted to having less than 1000 BTC available to pay out winners with.

So by their own admission they are happy to accept bets which they know in advance they have no way of paying out if you happen to win.

Hmmm. It should import blocks from bootstrap.dat whenever it exists, without having to delete the existing blockchain. I guess it could take a while to get to the new blocks, since it will start at the beginning, and have to skip all the blocks it already has, but it should still work.


OP recently said she needs to tidy up the first post. I'm sure your feedback will be helpful in that regard.

If Gavin launches his altcoin forked from Bitcoin, everyone who currently has Bitcoin will have the same number of Gavincoin. When his altcoin fades into obscurity, the original Bitcoins will still exist. Shortly after launch you may be able to sell your Gavincoins in exchange for extra real Bitcoins (or vice versa, if you think the altcoin will 'win') before the price drops significantly. But that's a gamble. It's safest just to hold both until you see which is going to 'win'.

I guess it's possible their 5 figure sum of BTC is split over 1000 different paper wallets, and it was going to take them 2 or 3 days to collect it all into a single address, but it's been long enough now that at least some kind of update would be useful.

I'm glad to hear it.

I see a lot of people complain that "bootstrap.dat doesn't make any difference". I think they must all be doing it wrong somehow, but they rarely stick around long enough for me to help them.

I don't think anyone told him where to find a copy of bootstrap.dat.

TrevorS, you should click here and follow the instructions.

I made a chart of the last month or so, labelling all the big wins and losses:

The order in which you list transactions isn't ideal. For example, here are two outputs staking and splitting:



It's from this page.

The top one shows the input first, and the other shows the outputs first. It would be good if the order was consistent.

Also, in the transaction view, you list the inputs in order of their txid. It would be more useful to list them in the order they appear in the transaction's vin array:



That's this tx.

Finally, I don't see any links in the transaction view from spent outputs to the transaction which spent them.

For example, here we see an 18.37 CLAM output staking to become worth 19.37 CLAMs. What happened next? Did it stake again to become 20.37 CLAMs? I can't tell using your block explorer.



Compare with the corresponding khashier page:



That 'spent' link tells me it has been spent, and takes me to the transaction that spent it:



So I see in fact it did stake again to 20.37 CLAM, and then there's another 'spent' link, allowing me to trace the output off into the future.

I've always been kind of an asshole. Maybe you're only just noticing it now.

But you're right; it isn't helpful here. I've made my point and will try to refrain from commenting further.

Oh, thanks. I hadn't noticed I messed up the quoting. Fixed now.

Next generation device?

That's all I could find to complain about. Other than in the ad I saw, the speech bubble looks weird since it's coming from the girl's brain, not her mouth. I don't read a lot of comics, but don't they usually 'point at' the mouth?

Oh, and the text could use a bit of proof-reading:

"BetterBets stated purpose is to provide [...]"

You need an apostrophe in that first word. The rest of the text looked alright at first glance. I'd probably say "satoshis" not "Satoshi" for the 1e-8 BTC units, but that's just a nitpick.