Wait... girls pay guys to watch them? I've been doing this all wrong!

Tempting, but I'll pass. I usually don't run away from a dare but last time I jumped from the bridge I kinda died... a bummer if you ask me. But you keep on trolling, I don't want to prevent you from sticking to your path, I'll just step aside

I might be completely off here, but smoothie, your reply above gave me the impression I'm not the only one that gets deeply misunderstood when trying for funny sarcasm. That or I see a good joke everywhere, which I guess is a bit more positive

Now also available as a DoC pipe game! The original post has all details.

We're having a great run with the Pick5 pot over 55 BTC now and a slightly more modest yet still great Pick4 pot of over 16BTC now! Don't miss your chance.

Also there's a Pipe Pick running for $10 iTunes gift cards that received no love up to this point -> https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=135209.0

Good luck!

Bump. Not a single bet yet (the one bet on the site was mine to make sure it was working).

You can get a $10 iTunes gift card for as little as 0.1BTC!

I have 3 unopened iTunes gift cards, each for $10.

To match the buyer with the bid we will require that the winner signs the hash id for the winning bid transaction with the key for the first input address of that same transaction and send that through PM here on the forum along with the name and address for shipping the prize (if shipping is required).
For the message signing to be possible you will need to use an address for which you control the private key, so online wallets are probably not going to work.

I will send the redeem code for the gift card through PM or email, GPG encrypted if the winner so desires. I can also mail the physical card, but the cost of shipping must be separately covered by the winner first.

Place your bets by sending 0.001BTC or more to 1PipEaL8yRS8n93mUS16wT5SNDiMrMutv5.

If you rather gamble your LTCs you can use the DICEonCRACK pipe address LPipeGWLJjMcKFZoE8GjDNCJT7mJEfcCpx with 1.0LTC or more.

Also available for TRCs, use the DICEonCRACK pipe address 1PipEaL8yRS8n93mUS16wT5SNDiMrMutv5 with 1.0TRC or more.

The larger the wager, the better chances of winning.

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Since there has been no interest in the raffle and I want to test a new feature for DoC, only one card will be raffled on TAABL, with the other two up for grabs at http://diceoncrack.com/address?_=1PipEaL8yRS8n93mUS16wT5SNDiMrMutv5 instead. This is a crack pipe on DoC that plays the Minefield strategy with the threshold (and thus the odds) derived from the wager amount. In other words, the prize will be roughly 1BTC 0.8BTC, but the game will change depending on the amount you send to 1PipEaL8yRS8n93mUS16wT5SNDiMrMutv5.

Example: If you send 0.01 then the multiplier needs to be 100x which makes it a game of less than 65233.

You can read the original Crack Pipe announcement here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120239.msg1312797#msg1312797

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added LTC bet information above.

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Removed TAABL raffle details, added DoC pipe for TRC and fixed pipe addresses that were all messed up.

Oi galera,

Estou precisando converter uns BRL em BTC. Compro cerca de 200 a 300 BTC de preferência a um vendedor só. Interessados?

All working again, so feel free to gamble your xmas coins now

Indeed that's just a side effect of the strategy having had an address change in the past. The old address is still valid and that's what you were seeing, I've fixed it now.

It will still show the same behaviour is you search for the old address: http://diceoncrack.com/address?_=1LQXotaEjfmerkwrGB3dHnheujo7sng6vA only  the other way around. Good eye.

So you want to learn about Elliptic curve cryptography is very simple terms? I'm afraid my understanding of the subject lacks a bit to achieve that.

What I can try to explain is the high level process here;

We created a list of secrets that will be disclosed for the next two hundred something years, one per hour. With these secrets and a little EC magic we can create a new public key from your public key and from there calculate a bitcoin address. With a little more EC magic we can calculate the private key to that bitcoin address by using the same secrets and the private key for the public key you provided.

This means that without disclosing a future secret (we call these timepoint secrets) we can calculate a bitcoin address from a public key you provide, but you can't calculate the private key needed to redeem the funds. We are also not able to calculate the private key, so the funds there are 'locked'. No one can access them.

When the timepoint secret is revealed you can, using the lbaat static calculator or some 3rd party tool (Armory allows for this, for example), calculate the future address private key using said secret and the private key for the public key you provided initially.

It's late and I'm not sure I made much sense, but you can read all the details at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=128581.0 including a pretty graph. If you have more questions don't hesitate to ask, we'll do our best to explain.

This particular thread gives away a bunch of addresses that were created using the above process, and also discloses the private key to be used calculating the addresses' keys. You should not, obviously, disclose yours to anyone unless you intend them to redeem the coins when the time comes.

Yes, all times for DiceOnCrack, TAABL and LBAAT are UTC, including the secrets. The secret used is the one from when the bet is processed, not from when it is parsed, and there is a chance that a bet processed at 00:00 UTC will still use the previous day's secret.

TTBit proposed a slightly different approach to the problem raised on my last post; from now on Picks will not find winners until there are at least two transactions and that is now denoted in the 'how to play' page.

Of course if the same person sends two transactions and wins, that person will still end up with 1% loss from the house fee.

It has happened a few times, and just now once more, that the Pick 2 hits a match with a single bet on it, which is fine when that bet is from TAABL's own seeding but otherwise means a bet will pay 99% of itself.

My immediate plan to avoid this is to set a minimum number of bets before the Pick becomes active. How does 5 bets minimum sound? And is there any reason for me not to do this on all Picks?

Ok, so I 'left it hanging' nice... still keeping it civil, I see.

I don't think this is ztex specific, but I humbly appreciate the invitation.

I gave 2.9.10 a quick try yesterday on OpenWRT (MIPSBE) and when mining with ztex fpgas on deepbit the hashrate drops to 1/5 of what it should be. On bitminter I would dare say it is faster than it was on 2.9.7.

Going back to 2.9.7 on deepbit works fine. It might be another endianess issue, I have not debugged this yet, but just thought I'd report in case someone gets a 'doh!' moment and immediately knows what's wrong

Mi español es muy malo, así que voy a escribir en Inglés;

I've just had that same issue and it turned out my hard drive was failing. I didn't review the code but I assume that message is triggered when there are errors while downloading new blocks, so the bitcoin client believes there's an incompatibility at the API level (hence the "your client or one of the nodes"). Do a hard drive test, what OS are you using?

If it happens again, feel free to PM me which will send an email.

As for LBAAT, it is not a game as I stated although TTBit did advertise a game using the service.

What you can do with it is create a bitcoin address that you'll only be able to get coins from in the future. Say you want to send coins to your brother for his next anniversary, and lets pretend that's next November. You can send the coins to him right now by using a private/public key pair that you know and a timepoint in November.

- Using the timepoint and the public key you create a bitcoin address on lbaat.net, and fund that address with as many coins as you wish to give you brother.
- You give the address, the timepoint and your private key to your brother. He can see the address but can't yet get to the coins.
- Come November your brother uses the private key and the timepoint secret (which is only disclosed after timepoint is reached) to calculate the address private key and get the coins.

The game TTBit created here lets you have the private key and timepoint for a bunch of future addresses, first one to get the timepoint secret and calculate the private key can redeem the coins.

What are you getting? It was down before, but it has been working fine for me since I started things properly, and it is most certainly working for me now.

This (LBAAT) is not a game, rather a service. As for TAABL (and DiceOnCrack, and LBAAT) being down, I woke to find it not running due to improper startup after the server got rebooted. I'm finding out why the server got rebooted and also why the services didn't all come up correctly after the system was back up, but for now all is running again!