I'm in for 0.5.  Gonna add it to my sig, also.  Thanks!

OK, I'm in.  Don't really know why I waited.  I think the giant "ALPHA" scared me away until now.

I signed up.

"(don't say mtgox)"  ??

Who's better?  They all have issues.

Anyway, good for you boosting BTC locally.    And the local news is always going to hunt down some tidbit like the local prostitute, and edit what you say to make the point THEY want to make.  Probably for the best you did not go on camera.

I wanted to join Sapphire, but I am in the USA, and I heeded the site's request to not try to fool them into thinking I was "Canadian" 

So I joined http://btcsportsbetting.com/ instead.  They take US customers, no problem.  And the betting is all done in bitcoin (actually dBTC, 1/10 of a bitcoin)  without converting to US Dollars, like Sapphire does.  I much prefer to just bet in bitcoin.

I've been doing decent at Blackjack over there. 

There are several threads in the "main" area, but it's gone, no one knows why, the rest is speculation.

I hope you didn't lose too many BTC, man.  I like your game, I hope you can find a way to keep it going.

Could ya find another one?  It's been 7.5 mill shares. 

Good thing we have a big buffer.

The "day" is only 1:45 old, but Camp BX actually has the most volume at the moment. 

Looking forward to it.  I jailbroke last night in anticipation

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

I do run Linuxcoin from USB for my mining rig. 

But I'd like to run the client in the OS that is already running, not re-boot into linux.  Especially since Macs can't boot a non-Mac OS from USB.  Well, not easily. 

I already have my secure bank on a bootable Ubuntu live CD. With several backups, of course.

I'm still looking into various "more secure" alternatives to running the client directly.  Looking into VirtualBox right now.

Of course, version 0.4 could come out with an encrypted wallet.dat and save the day, but we don't know when that might be.

I don't really have enough BTC to matter, and half of what I DO have is in MtGox, so this is really more for my own curiosity than anything else.

My Linux box at work can't run the bitcoin client, the OS is too old.  And I still don't have access to a Windows box.

However, there is this thread: http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=4868.msg71216#msg71216  that I found.  He's on windows and using the same approach as me.

So it should work.

I know.  The mybitcoin.com mess wrecked several games. 

I was getting about .5 BTC a week in referral fees from Bitcoin Kamikaze.  Hopefully he'll fix it soon.

I love how BTCBook.com Beta calls hi a shill, when he's in here badmouthing and accusing a site that is in competition with his.

Judging from that behavior alone, I'll never use his site.

The site THIS thread is about, however, is a great site.  I've had nothing but fun and good customer service from them.

I think, in all multiply / ponzi games, the majority of people enter at the very beginning.

If you want more people to join, you need to get their entries up on the site ASAP, and pay them out right away, especially in the beginning.  The first 2 hours are critical.

Take, bitcat.ch, for example.  He gets a lot of people to re-enter because of the reasons I started above.  I know he's automated, and you do it by hand, but I think for those first few hours you need to be on top of it more.

I like the 1.4x you do (bitcat.ch's 1.2 is too low, in my opinion), and the minimum of .25 is good.  Maybe make the max 1.0.  Then some people would enter twice at 1 instead of once at 2.

Also, I would prefer you pay out exactly 1.4x.  So for a bet of 1, pay me back 1.4.  Take the fees / jackpot out of the money that goes in the pot.  That makes more sense to me, and makes the numbers more even.

So if I pay 1 BTC, you take 0.02 BTC for the jackpot, and 0.02 BTC for the game fee.  Put 0.96 in the pot, and mark my "Gets back" at 1.4.  Does that make sense?

You run a good game.  With a few tweaks, it could be a great game.

You da MAN!  I like that you added the "Available For Payout:". also.

I like this because:  Say I am next to get paid, but the round is ending in a few hours.  I can recoup part of my bet by betting again, enough to trigger a payout to myself.  The "Available For Payout:" helps me decide if it's worth it to do this, and how much to send.

Plus, I'm all for more transparency.

Thanks again, TheBitMan.

I believe it was round 6 that just ended.  He's been starting a 48 hour round on the weekends.

"Round 4" doesn't ever end until it goes 24 hours with no deposits.

Check back on Thursday, if he follows the same pattern, there will be a notice about round 7.

How much did they put in?  I was busy away from the comp so I didn't get to bid, or watch the final.

ok, thanks.

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