 Dooglus Wins! You had a 25% chance of winning, Good Job  Now waiting for BTC address lightlord - I'm glad your issue got resolved and you won tons of money even though you made silly mistakes Could I ask that you change the thread title to [RESOLVED]? Glad to see you have resolved the latest payout issues, its a shame you stayed quiet and only commented on this thread after it was resolved, still Im guessing SD keeps you busy. I was in Macau/Hong Kong all last week also |
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November Statement The dividend for S.DICE on MPEX has now been paid for November. It was a great month! Enough profit was earned not only to cover the -2k loss from Oct, but even so, over $4k in net earnings on top of that was achieved. Summary: Earnings: 6146.78744309 Hosting/Tech Expenses: 60 Loss Carryover from Oct: -2071.07115151 Net Profit 4015.71629158 10% MPEX Dividend 401.57162915 Volume over past 30 Days 180,827.90 Actual Profit over past 30 Days 6146.78744309 Expected Profit over past 30 Days 3435.73008515 Updated P&L: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aiec3-Eo_yO5dG5SQklHZG4wRm1GMW9DRWpMMW5UQkE#gid=7S.DICE shareholders earned over 15% interest on an annualized basis from the month of November. Booyaa. |
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Dooglus Wins! You had a 25% chance of winning, Good Job Now waiting for BTC address lightlord - I'm glad your issue got resolved and you won tons of money even though you made silly mistakes Could I ask that you change the thread title to [RESOLVED]? |
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I think it's time for the dice to quit bloating the blockchain and memory pools with crap transactions and just make an account system with BTC-balances for those who want to use it and lose it.
If the bitcoin network can't handle it, it has no chance of handling wide spread adoption. Precisely. The Bitcoin network better be ready to handle 100x as many transactions as SatoshiDICE is spitting out... and that's just for the next couple years. SatoshiDICE has simply moved the "need to make the blockchain more efficient" further ahead into the present. Instead of the devs tackling the problem in a year or two, they've been forced to tackle it now. And indeed they have... the 0.8v has significant pruning/efficiency upgrades. |
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So, some recent problems I've been working on:
1) Website/Frontend Database very slow (solved (I think))
I added some calls to a cache to avoid hitting the database. This has improved things a great deal.
2) We were running out of available funds, which means we would pay with pending funds which can lead to a very poor user experience. I've made a change such that once the available funds drops below a certain point Satoshidice will only process bets that meet our isLegit() check. This check passes if the transaction is confirmed or if the transaction and all its UNCONFIRMED parents are known by Satoshidice and have a fee of at least 0.0005 BTC and if the depth of unconfirmed parents is less than 8. This can lead to a delay, but I think it makes sense when available funds are running low to use them on the transactions most likely to confirm soon first.
3) We have had some things that have made me question the integrity of some of our databases. As a recent example one of our internal reports of funds in accounts was off by several thousand BTC. This is not good and led to the system thinking there was more funds than actually were there in our online wallet causing it to automatically send excess funds to an offline wallet. This of course didn't help with problem #2 above. I'll be working to track that down. In the process of doing that there have been some outages in processing last night and this morning. There will likely be more as I rebuild tables and do consistency checks over the next week or so.
Im assuming satoshidice ran out of money hence the delays in payout's then they raised the min's to screw all the small time martingaler's and bring the pot back up i could be *completely* wrong but it would appear that way
either way im stopping playing till the min's go back down ..
SD has not "ran out of money." November was actually one of the best months yet for house returns. Min was not raised to "screw people". See above post. you guys are contradicting each other ? so i was right you are running out of funds... regardless i can't see the harm in running my php martingale script at min .001 if im paying the .0005 tx fee can some one explain to me how that is bad ? what effect it has on satoshi dice or the network itself ? i would think overall it would be a good thing for the network increasing traffic No contradiction. SD has plenty of money, but the database thought it had even more than that, resulting in some of the hot wallet funds being sent into cold storage. Thus the hot wallet had far less than it should, and this caused issues. |
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November StatementThe dividend for S.DICE has now been paid for November. It was a great month! Enough profit was earned not only to cover the -2k loss from Oct, but even so, over $4k in net earnings on top of that was achieved. Summary:Earnings: 6146.78744309 Hosting/Tech Expenses: 60 Loss Carryover from Oct: -2071.07115151 Net Profit 4015.71629158 10% MPEX Dividend 401.57162915 Volume over past 30 Days 180,827.90 Actual Profit over past 30 Days 6146.78744309 Expected Profit over past 30 Days 3435.73008515 Updated P&L: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aiec3-Eo_yO5dG5SQklHZG4wRm1GMW9DRWpMMW5UQkE#gid=7S.DICE shareholders earned over 15% interest on an annualized basis from the month of November. Booyaa.
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Hey all, quick update - the Nov. dividend for S.DICE will go out within 24 hrs. I apologize for the delay, just got back from Hong Kong and Macau! How did things go? Blogpost? Things went great! Here's a snippet: http://calvinayre.com/2012/11/30/conferences/social-gaming-asia-summit-summary-ao-videoBitcoin is mentioned at 1:45 and the full Bitcoin-only interview will be put up at CalvinAyre probably this week. Notice in that article, "The stars of the conference were the team from BitInstant.com." We had a couple very interesting meetings with some business owners down there. I cannot give specifics because it has to do with people trying to circumvent capital controls... but suffice to say that Macau has started to learn about Bitcoin and the casinos there are going to become increasingly interested. From one guy who ran some VIP gambling rooms, he told us, "I need to learn about this right away because within a few months every casino is going to be using this stuff." I think his timeframe is a bit optimistic, but he understood that it's a matter of "when" not "if." The audience thought SatoshiDice was awesome, and a representative from the Isle of Man government has now become very interested in assisting Bitcoin companies with a friendly jurisdiction (BitInstant, and perhaps SatoshiDice, will be in further talks with him over the coming weeks). |
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I'll post here to verify that the OP (Gabe) is trustworthy and is in contact with me for this donation project. We know Gabe well here in NYC and you can be sure that any BTC donations will get to the couple. If a significant amount of funds are donated, we can perhaps try to push a news story out of this.
So, donate what you can to Gabe's address: 13FcRkmXyqf38UXpZo8Lj5nFKR11A6MkPs
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Hey all, quick update - the Nov. dividend for S.DICE will go out within 24 hrs. I apologize for the delay, just got back from Hong Kong and Macau! |
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Im assuming satoshidice ran out of money hence the delays in payout's then they raised the min's to screw all the small time martingaler's and bring the pot back up i could be *completely* wrong but it would appear that way
either way im stopping playing till the min's go back down ..
SD has not "ran out of money." November was actually one of the best months yet for house returns. Min was not raised to "screw people". See above post. |
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why did you change min bet from 0.001 to 0.01?? please explain! thanks!
EDIT: if you not roll back this change please change max bet from 250 to 2500 too! thanks!
Sorry for the delays in responding here, I just returned from our trip to Macau/Hong Kong (Macau gaming industry is now starting to learn about BTC  ) We've increased the max bet from .001 to .01 for two reasons: 1) Due to the fee of .0005, players who are betting .01 are going to lose no matter what. It is not wise to bet .001 when fees are paid. 2) There was a player recently sending tons of .001 transactions to SatoshiDice. This caused most of the delays players have experienced over the past few days. Whether it was malicious or not, it seemed smarter to just remove that tiny bet option. Any "strategy" that used small bets like that is a bad strategy unless fees were not being paid, and fees should be paid by anyone sending so many transactions. |
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As for the bigger picture, it is important that readers review In short, if you care about bitcoin, if you want bitcoin to survive long term, you need to play a long game. In particular, big governments have committed billions of dollars and a small specops army to interdicting what they consider their major enemies. Just about the worst thing you can do is look at the targets of the Big Guys -- Iran, North Korea, Taliban, jihadi terrorists -- and put bitcoin squarely in their crosshairs. Right now bitcoin is weak; a few thousand listening nodes run by hobbyists are all that holds the network together. The switch from GPU/FPGA to ASIC will bring an increase in network strength -- but it also consolidates hash production power in a tiny handful of startup companies. If you think bitcoin can right now sustain a targeted cyber attack, you are dead wrong. On the legal front, it is also quite clear that law enforcement is taking an active look at bitcoin. There is an active SEC investigation into Pirate-related activities (good; clear out the swamp). The DEA is most certainly looking at Silk Road. The FBI produced an in-depth report on bitcoin, and talks actively about bitcoin at anti-money-laundering conferences. It is therefore logical to conclude that IRC, forum and other activities are being continually monitored for evidence that can be used in a court of law. That makes it all the more rich when anonymous forum trolls hurl charges of "cowardice!" and "treason!" when these trolls are neither (a) using their real name, nor (b) contributing in any meaningful way, nor (c) a High Value Target. Teenaged crypto-anarchists may love to mock the "sheeple" who follow the laws of their jurisdiction, but at the end of the day, they just move back into their parents' house if they run into trouble. Not that easy for me. Just like a great many of people I would like to introduce to bitcoin, I am a law-abiding US citizen, using my real name, in public, volunteering my time to work on multiple bitcoin implementations. Businesses like WordPress are law-abiding businesses. It is logical and normal to expect people to follow the laws of their country. That is the most revealing, the most saddening part about this thread. In a short-sighted attempt to be a morally pure crypto-anarchist, you could ruin the true monetary freedom bitcoin brings, for the billions on this planet. I agree with Garzik generally on these points. Specifically, on the Sun Tzu point. I won't comment on whether it was right to ban anyone from anything, and I see absolutely nothing wrong with making a Farsi translation, but in terms of strategy of presentation, we should always be playing the long game. A while ago, a member of the forum here suggested that an organ/tissue market should be set up for Bitcoin. Indeed, Bitcoin would be great for that, and absolutely people have the right to buy and sell organs (so long as they aren't stolen from someone else). However, I recommended strongly against such an operation, not because I'm opposed to organ markets, but because it would be foolish from a strategic perspective. Strategy and tactics, gentlemen. |
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Fact 1: The US Government is trying to subvert the Iranian Government
Fact 2: Much of any government's power comes from its ability to print and control currency
Fact 3: Bitcoin, to the extent that it's used instead of a national currency, removes power from governments
Conclusion 1: Perhaps the US Gov should be covertly promoting and disseminating Bitcoin in Iran. What better way to bring down the regime than to collapse its currency and empower the citizens with a tool to resist the regime monetarily?
In other words, the State Dept. should help with the Farsi translations.
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The casinos are learning about Bitcoin muahahahaha
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Smoothie did you lose a bunch of money on SatoshiDice?
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If breaking the laws about destruction of currency is too much for you - or if you really can't bear to part with a few dollars - burning some scraps of paper with dollar signs etc written on them would be good enough!
If burning a piece of your own fiat currency is too heavy for you because the government doesn't approve, then you might want to avoid Bitcoin entirely |
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So late tonight (here in Macau) we will be celebrating the block reward halving. This is of course a very momentous milestone for Bitcoin.
We were brainstorming that it'd be fun to have certain traditions or rituals on this day, celebrated every four years. Since this is the first one, it's probably appropriate to start some of these rituals!
One thing we'll likely do here is set aflame some fiat currency. We may also "destroy" a Satoshi... send it to an address that we cannot reclaim, as a sacrifice to our great Creator.
What other fun traditions should be started?
Perhaps no? Not exactly wanting to make bitcoin nor its creator a "GOD". Rituals? Wtf? Sacrifice? Our creator? Probably the dumbest post I have seen on this forum. "hey let's worship bitcoin and Satoshi and dance around a camp fire with woven grass skirts while howling like Native Americans" Easy on the weed and crack bro lol  For someone with over 4000 posts, I'm amazed you haven't yet learned about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue_in_cheekIf you send me your address I'll buy you a pair of training wheels. |
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So late tonight (here in Macau) we will be celebrating the block reward halving. This is of course a very momentous milestone for Bitcoin.
We were brainstorming that it'd be fun to have certain traditions or rituals on this day, celebrated every four years. Since this is the first one, it's probably appropriate to start some of these rituals!
One thing we'll likely do here is set aflame some fiat currency. We may also "destroy" a Satoshi... send it to an address that we cannot reclaim, as a sacrifice to our great Creator.
What other fun traditions should be started?
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has anyone else had this problem? I waited 48 hrs now and I have three bets that never returned a response. I looked for contact info but I don't see any. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks
Sometimes bets get stuck, but always pay out eventually. It happens when miners don't include a transaction in a block, and it floats around in purgatory for a while. Please PM me if they are still stuck 24 hrs from now and include the transaction details please. |
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