Introducing a third party does not increase the value of bitcoin (he sold you his btc). Increasing the amount of transactions does not either. In this scenario, BTC would rise in value only if the person selling goods for BTC then saved (hoarded) them for future purchasing power.

Be careful what you wish for, if bitcoin was not worth saving, by definition it would be worthless. Said another way, the less bitcoin savers you have, the less bitcoin is worth.

TAABL limits are going up! The Amazing Anonymous Bitcoin Lottery is 100% anonymous, 100% transparent and 100% verifiable. With an expected return of 99.0%, it is also one of the highest payout games on the internet. A lottery is over when a block hash matches one of the picks (example, you have 'eab' and block hash ends in 'eab', you win the pot).

New Levels:

Pick 2 1.00 BTC Each (256 tickets total)
Pick 3 0.10 BTC Each (4,096 tickets total)
Pick 4 0.10 BTC Each (65,536 tickets total)

Why the change? Ticket sales have been sporadic at best, due to the speed at which the lotteries have been going off. We are hopeful the new structure will allow for more even, spaced out lotteries. As always, you can jump in ANYTIME and have a 99% expected return. There is NO signup, username, or password required. A bitcoin transaction is all that is needed to connect you to your picks. Your funds will be returned from where they came, so send from a wallet that you control the private keys. Input your tx on TAABL.net to get your lottery numbers.

TAABL will be seeding all lotteries with at least 1.00 btc per day for the time being, so keep checking the current pot size.

Join the Pick 2 ANYTIME (1.0 btc): 12TaAbLWBNKB1NLYH92CPnC1DizQoNK6FN
Join the Pick 3 ANYTIME (0.1 btc): 13TAabLHjNzwg8Mj7XYn76FuVAqj32s8EM
Join the Pick 4 ANYTIME (0.1 btc): 14TAAbLiw2QLuRJCGQ3iETYg3vcpweZkTE
(* Deposit in multiples of the entry fee for multiple picks)

Good luck!

There could be one anonymous account on bitcointalk that everyone would be able to post from, for a fee of 0.02 btc. This would be useful to buy pr0n via the goods section anonymously, or say something that you wouldn't want your name associated with (i.e. if a user wanted to comment about something illegal in their country). Proceeds go to the forum.

* All forum users would still be able to ignore the user.
* The use of PGP would be used so buyers & sellers could verify the anonymous posting.
* Maybe have an 'anonymous' section, and all anonymous conversations go there.

Absolutely. The promotion script doesn't appear to have kicked in either at this moment, and it may have been held for processing. Sorry for the delay. I will be in touch...

We are having a 1,000,000th iteration promotion.

After the 1,000,000th iteration, house fees will be temporarily reduced to 0.10% (99.90% return per iteration) for simple & martingales up to 2.000 btc! Wagers of 0.1 and under will still have a 98% expected return.

Check out the sister site, TAABL while you are at it. 1% house edge on an anonymous lottery, jump in anytime!

all of them

Request: log all prices. This way, buyer and seller can agree to a price in the future. As it is now, I send a PM to buyer "3.00 btc for oz of silver", and he now has extra value from waiting. If btc/usd price falls, he accepts, but if it rises, he declines.

But "I'll pay you the price at 11:00pm tonight as posted on boollion.com" takes this away, and is fair. Should lead to more transactions.

Thanks for the wagers! Lotteries are slowly finishing, and here are some raw stats to help with your wagering.

The pick 2 (0.10 BTC) has been getting hit every few hours with 25 wagers.
The pick 3 (0.05 BTC) was just hit for the first time. With ~50 entries, it should hit about 6 times a week.
The pick 4 (0.01 BTC) should be hit about 3 times a week with 250 entries

Any interest in a pick 5, or a larger lottery?

Thanks for playing!

We had 3 recently retained bets, which I assume were yours. For 2 of them, fees of 0.0005 were not enough. They were manually pushed again, and seem to be fine.

The 3rd one is a design issue for the type of bet that was placed. The deposit was 0.007, and the first iteration was shooting for this +.001 = 0.008. The issue is that to get to step #1, a wager larger than 0.007 is needed (a very high threshold was selected). When this fails, the [EXIT] strategy is designed to return any balance to the user. However, this should be treated as a 'refund', not a 'return'. A return for that tx would require fees >0.001, but as a refund it was 0.0005.

In the future, increasing the fee on retained bets will be automatic, but for now we are checking what is going on. Thanks for your patience and participation!

The Amazing Anonymous Bitcoin Lottery returns! www.TAABL.net

Well, sort of. It's a close clone of the original TAABL that was born circa August 2010 to be the original bitcoin lottery.One of the games provided, BitPick, is reproduced here with a twist; no accounts are needed, we'll be using the bitcoin transactions as medium to place bets and extract addresses to pay prizes, just like DICE on CRACK and Satoshi Dice (added anonymity)

Please read http://taabl.net/howtoplay for instructions and explanations.

3 games are provided: The very fast paced Pick 2, the slightly more sedate Pick 3 and the "once a year or so" Pick 4.

In a nutshell, you pick the last digits of the hash of each completed block. If your picks match exactly, you win the entire pot! The house fee of only 1.0% means your expectation is 99% no matter how many entries there are.

Don't want to read, and just play? Jump in anytime into a pick 2, just send 0.1 or multiple thereof to: 12TaAbLWBNKB1NLYH92CPnC1DizQoNK6FN, you can even place a bet larger than the available slots in a Pick, the remaining credit will be used against future picks. You will receive 2 satoshis when a round is complete, and the whole pot when you win.

Enjoy!

Thanks to everyone for the positive reviews!

Couple announcements

#1
Regarding slow payouts confirms, we have been adjusting the way unspent transactions are chosen to speed things up.

The payout TX will never be included in a block before the deposit TX because the latter is used as input for the former. They might go into the same block, likely so even, but if your original deposit doesn't get included for lack of fees or whatever, the payout tx won't either.

and

#2
we are now on DiceOnCrack.bit for the 7 of you who know how to get there.

We had forgot to include fees upon launch, but have since included them. Sorry for the delays. We are aware of the amount of unconfirmed.

Processed. It looks like it needed a higher than normal fee, and was retried manually. It is now marked as a successful. Thanks for your understanding!

Wait a sec! We were not posting tx fees on payout unless required, which greatly slows the inclusion of the payout tx in blocks. We have changed that now, fees will always get added (our treat )

This isn't DiceOnSpeed.com.

Seriously, it is on the improvement checklist. Thanks for your patience everyone.

Thank you!

There is a small learning curve when placing wagers like martingales. You can go the high probability route, but any loss will take quite a hit on remaining balance. With a lower threshold, you can take many small losses. High exit points make it much more likely to fail in entirety, but much more rewarding with an overall win.

I suggest making small wagers at first to see what is most entertaining.

Be sure to click on the link to get your seed/final hash as well as a graphical representation of your wager!

Yes. All wagers return something. Unfortunately in this case, the 1 satoshi means your wagers were bet in entirety as a loss.

Under recent bets, you can click on the time link and get a graphical representation of the wager. For example: http://diceoncrack.com/tx?_=50882e058127a81560eabcc3

Thanks for the kind words. Good luck!