RHavar, question on your provably fair system, it's technically possible for the seed server to collaborate with the game server and pretend to be a player and act against the investors, right? I've spent a lot of time thinking up possible provably fair systems and something very similar to what you have here came into my head but I was trying to create a system that was totally independent of all doubt.

EDIT: I'd be down for helping you guys with a provable fairness verifier in my style (Ex 1, Ex 2).

https://www.cryptocompare.com/coins/guides/what-is-a-bitcoin-double-spend-and-how-does-it-work/

A double spend takes the same inputs that have been previously spent in an unconfirmed transaction, and creates a new transaction with them using a higher fee in order to get the new transaction included in a block and not the old one. The new transaction usually sends the coins to a different place from where they were being sent before, for instance, back to the person using the double spend.

Because PD incentivizes people to stay with them through the house edge on dice. PD has a 1% house edge on dice, while Stake's dice has a massive 2% house edge.

Looks like a nice tool but people at this point should really be using wallets that support RBF. Double-spending is an outdated solution by now.

Satoshi Nakamoto has not been seen in a very long time at this point. Bitcoin has largely been developed by the team of Bitcoin Core developers, which the developers of the other forks like to slander.

You definitely don't need at least 1 BTC. You can make a profit with any amount, and lots of people don't have an entire Bitcoin.

The risk of a dice site pulling an exit scam and running with everyone's coins is higher than you make it seem to be.

I see whales all the time, you must be on the wrong sites.

#4 is the only one I can agree with you on, I also see it a lot.

You will need to control your own coins at the time of the fork by holding your coins in a wallet where you hold the private keys. Those wallets include desktop clients like Bitcoin Core, Electrum, and many more but do not include exchanges and other online services. Once the fork passes, there will be instructions on how to split your coins. What you need to do is make sure your coins are in a wallet you control, and then don't send them out until you've read the instructions on how to split your coins.

I use this forum and /r/Bitcoin. I find that usually, the "crowdsourced" news is the fastest to come out, albeit not always neutral. It's best when you see something to do your own research, but that's something I'm comfortable doing. It's important to be able to formulate your own opinions.

Well he just said that he'd credit investment balances at the time of the fork so I don't see why you'd do that. Also, there's no open/close fee on investments but if your investment is in profit since the last time commission was take on that investment, then closing it causes the last bit of commission to be taken, which would decrease your balance slightly

Hey, you seem to have missed adding YOLOdice, it's a fairly large dice site, bigger than a lot already on your website and offers a lot of features. There's a link in my signature.

I'm not quite sure I agree with just doing it as soon as the page is loaded, but you've got to admit, publishers/website operators are starting to run out of viable methods to make money with their websites. Most of them aren't even making money, they're just trying to break even with their hosting costs. I can see where these people are coming from.

Of course the problem with making something like this opt-in is that a lot of people will never opt-in, and they'd never see nearly as much money as they would if they just put it live on the site for everyone. I've seen one website I use add it as a donation option, simply turning on the miner (as simple as clicking a button) and letting it run with the tab open in the background. They offer their users perks for leaving it open, so as to provide incentive, just like donations to the site.

I think this, in addition to things like Basic Attention Token are really going to start to change how people monetize their websites. I'm really hoping that with more things like this in the future we'll start to see less of the shitty, malware-infested ads we have now and we'll get a more sensible ad environment for everyone.

What do you think about decentralized exchanges like Bisq? Shouldn't they be unable to be shut down? I agree that they have nowhere near the volume of the larger exchanges but if the governments really started squeezing, how many people do you think would move over? Could it become the new norm?

Fantastic news, I was hoping that I wouldn't have to close my investment to get coins from the fork. You've pulled through again Ethan.

I don't think it's attracting the "wrong" people, I just think that it's starting to attract the non cryptophiles and such. I think Bitcoin can continue to grow slowly, it's not gonna just jump up to 20k overnight.

I think you overestimate the amount of people that care about Bitcoin Gold. I hadn't even heard about it until a few days ago. There's too many forks and altcoins going on, one more isn't going to be noticed by many people.

I know they have a websocket service, I'm just saying it would be nice to have more than one. I don't like having to rely on blockchain.info for anything needing a Bitcoin API so I try to use other ones as much as possible. You should consider adding it if you want features for your site.

I believe many people that run ICOs calculate the exchange rate at the time of purchase, so if you have a $1,000 cap on your ICO and somebody sends in $100 worth of Bitcoin, then the price of Bitcoin doubles, the amount counted towards the cap stays the same even though the Bitcoin was worth more. Some of these places might be selling their coins as soon as they receive them, who knows.

It's just part of the trading cycle. People see the price shooting up, and they rush to get onboard. Wherever it hits it's highest point, it probably won't stay there for long. That's just how the market works.

You should implement desktop notifications, they're currently supported by Chrome, Firefox and Edge plus more, you can see here on how to use them: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification.

IMO this is the best way to notify someone, audio is nice but I think native browser notifications are the way to go.

I think that ideally, Bitcoin could be able to be both a secure store of value and a payment network. However, especially with the growing pains we've been seeing lately, I think we'd be much better off as a secure store of value if we had to pick just one. Bitcoin is a safe haven for people in many countries right now whose local currencies are devaluating because of various reasons, and in that sense it is a digital gold because especially compared to their own currencies it retains its value.

That said, I'm still very excited for the Lightning network and all the payment network parts of Bitcoin that have been getting some love by the devs recently. It's all very exciting and innovative stuff.