Also, a brief follow up:
We have been receiving your messages concerning players abusing the ability to lock the potato, with no intention of making a payment. While the 24 hour sell period allows ample time for a legitimate payment to be made, we have acknowledged the potential for abuse, and are currently implementing a system to monitor and temporarily or permanently ban users who are abusing the potato locking system.


Sincerely,
Bit Potato Staff

Greetings All, from itPotato.com!

It does in fact turn out there was a mistake implementing the locking fix to the double payment bug, that prevented it from properly working. The locking mechanism has now been properly implemented, hopefully. At this point we're not ready to declare the bug fixed until we stop encountering it on the live site. We're crossing our fingers for when the timers expire and new potatoes are bought.

Rest assured, if there are any payment errors during the next round they will be caught and rectified ASAP. We'd like to maintain a high level of transparency regarding this issue, so we can better assure our community that the bug has been resolved. Integrity is our number one priority, and we want you all to feel comfortable using Bit Potato for all of its current and future services!


As always, we deeply appreciate your patronage and understanding. We will keep a close eye on our logs to make sure the system is operating without a hitch, and report back here once we've verified the condition of the bugfix. If you have any issues with the site, please do not hesitate to send a message to our support email, which can be found in the FAQ section of our site. Any and all information you can provide is greatly appreciated, so that we can be sure this issue is resolved once and for all!



Best Wishes,
The Bit Potato Staff

Sent you a support email.

Greetings all from BitPotato.com!


It's been a rough and tumble day here at bitpotato.com, we've now issued over 200 LTC in out of pocket refunds due to the double spending bug we encountered early this morning. Thankfully, I am pleased to inform you all that the bug has been resolved! It should now be impossible for multiple users to attempt to buy the same potato.

We'd also like to remind you all that making payments out of btc-e accounts is not recommended. It can take several minutes after the payment authorizes for it to actually hit the block chain, leading to payments missing the timeout period. We urge all users to make their payments out of a desktop lightcoin wallet or daemon, the payments process almost instantly that way. From this point onward, we cannot guarantee you a refund if the timer has expired. We have extended it to 7.5 minutes to help account for anyone trying to pay using btc-e, but once again, it is NOT recommended!


We really, really do appreciate all your patience and understanding, as well as all of your feedback and patronage. Stay classy, and keep tatin'!


Sincerely,
The Bit Potato Staff