Hi, just wanted to confirm this giveaway is legitimate and we're working together with Kiritsugu. Cheers and good luck!

I am pushing a few changes now that should improve connectivity, or at least eliminate a few of the issues. I hope things will improve over time, thanks for your patience :-)

Cheers,
Ethan

We are not blocking VPNs or Tor, nor have any special policy against VPNs nor Tor. The only consequences of using a VPN is that you might accidentally share an IP address with other users, which could result in:

* your faucet request count might be limited (we count them by IP too)
* you might experience delays on some requests, e.g. when posting to chat (but you would feel it only if there are really dozens of people from the same IP)
* you might not be included in chat rains since only one user per IP is rained when someone enters e.g. "/rain 10 0.1"
* mods will know you share an IP with other people from chat

But these are just standard anti-abuse protections, you should not be affected by them unless there are really many players from the same IP.

Cheers,
Ethan

I will keep looking at connection issues. These affect a small fraction of users, but still this means something is wrong. Right now it seems that the most common issues are caused by internet providers. I can keep my browsers open literally for hours without a single iterrupt at locations with stable connection. Poor uplink, strange network policies (e.g. not allowing long-lasting open connections), network reconfiguration (IP change) are most common sources of connection issue.

Anyway, be asured this is a priority issue.
Ethan

Not for now. I have a kind of in-game reward system in mind, but I'd rather leave it for now. Even a simple thing like a faucet (what could go wrong?) needed multiple iterations to make it not worth abusing.

At some point - maybe indeed a system of rewards or ranks, but this doesn't really appeal to me that much. Yet.

Thanks!
Ethan

Somehow more and more people request it... This request is definitely moving up on my list. On one hand I want tips to be public, on the other you are right - if you tip your friends, you sometimes really want it private. Maybe we would allow private tips after an account wager at least 1 BTC?

The work started already. I am working on releasing API, which would allow Seuntjie to add YD to his bot.

If more people request this, I will take a look at it. Honestly I cannot see much sense in creating yet another balance for each user, but I understand some other sites do it like that.

This might be nice indeed. Honestly I rather see real people raining, it's more fun for sure and chat seems to go crazy when it happens. So let's see. I am writing this idea down and come back to it later!

I have also looked at .onion addresses and right now it would be too much work for me. The threat is that it could open YD for more abuse and would require different defence mechanisms, e.g. we would not be able to block IP addresses etc. So let's leave it for now.

Right now the "night mode" and "API" seem to be getting most attention from users so I will concentrate on these larger goals. I am still open on any other ideas and I could implement something smaller meantime.

Cheers,
Ethan

Earlier today I disabled some button animations (from the Bootstrap theme we are using) - game feels even more responsive, especially on mobile browsers. There is not much visual difference though.

Hi,

I would like to hear your opinion (or about your experience in) advertizing a gambling site. I have created and am running YOLOdice.com, yet another gambling site. Now the thing is it's doing pretty well, but is quite young (little over 1 month). It already has investors, players and I am sure it's on the right way to become a big one, but I would like to speed the process a bit with advertizing.

We are already doing:
* sig campaign on BitcoinTalk
* in-site referral program
* started Twitter giveaways and planning a few more

But I am looking at other options and was thinking about checking advertizing - CPM or CPC. Since I have never advertized a gambling site, I can see there are already a few Bitcoin-centric advertizing networks, I would really like to hear some opinions if you decide to share!

Thanks and cheers,
Ethan

Hi,

I am Ethan, creator/owner/admin of YOLOdice.com. I was wondering if you could list our game. YD already has 730 BTC wagered, 200 BTC in bankroll and ~50 BTC of site profit, allows investing and seems to be getting traction pretty fast.

I suppose you need some kind of API integration to get stats from the server. I am open to any ideas. I definitely like your idea of dice-only sites!

Cheers,
Ethan

I fully agree. Animations might be OK for the first few times, later they are just annoyances for most people. I definitely want YD to be clean and fast rather than fancy.

I am looking deeper at .onion routing, I will most likely do the night theme, several people expressed their interest in API too. This is still a planning phase though.

What's next?

I have completed most of the points from my short-term "TODO" list. This included quick (0-conf) deposits, mod power-tools, fixing minor bugs, extending chat with PMs and channels. These were all suggestions from YD users. Some of them still need a bit of work (fine-tuning), but I am looking for ideas that I could put on the list. I would be more than happy to hear your opinion!

Some of the ideas people already suggested (and which I like) are:

* night mode theme (white screen at night is a pain)
* expose API (so that one could create playing bots, or fetch site status, or anything)
* .onion address for even better anonimity
* any idea of yours?

I am looking for a feature that could be implemented in no more than a week - from start to first deployment. If you have a feature or an impovement that you think would make YD better and more exciting, please share it!

Cheers!
Ethan

Hi,

today I have publish code to validate your bets. It works with the downloadable seed dump from Seeds panel -- click any archived seed, then "Verify" and download the CSV file containing all the bets for a given seed.

This Ruby utility let's you validate the following:

1. if the seed hash matches the seed,
2. if your bets on YOLOdice have been generated according to the Provably fair algorithm,
3. if the profit for each bet has been calculated properly.

Feel free to use/clone/improve/adapt! Let me know if there's anything you need.

Cheers,
Ethan

I have just sent payments for week #1. Your YOLOdice accounts have been credited with amounts listed in the campaign spreadsheet. Here's the screenshot of my account history:


Thank you for participating! Keep up the good work!

Cheers,
Ethan

Thanks! It's not really forbidden to share your ref payouts with your referrals, you just need to be clear and not confuse people.

I think it would be much more obvious if you simply posted your referral link directly to YOLOdice. Your yolodice.ga website uses Google Analytics and tries to display yolodice.com within an iframe, which is not a superb policy anyway. You can see yourself that it makes people sceptical.

Cheers,
Ethan

Yes, we started with a more complex speed-per-amount model, but now it's pretty simple:


I am not sure it's that great. It looks good on paper (multiple levels), but look at the numbers: Bitvest paid total 1.82525564 BTC for level 1, 0.48168869 BTC for level 2, 0.11057556 BTC for level 3 during 1 year. We paid over 5 BTC in in one month only (yes, we were a bit lucky too). Now I really like the referral programs that people can earn something real and I think we are on the right track. Multi-level structure is cool, but does it really transforms how much a participant can earn?

1. your minimum payout in the aff program is 0.20% of referrals' wagered sum.
2. if site has profit, the program works a bit differently. there is a pool and we put 10% of site profit into the pool. you then get a share in the pool which is proportional to your rereffals' wagered sum.

This week the site had pretty large profit indeed. so we added 10% of the profit to the pool, hence the large payout!  10% is exactly the commission we take from investors each week, so basically we are pumping our profit into the referral program.

And yes, I paid it yesterday. It was like 4.7 BTC alltogether. I am glad I could make a few people happy :-)

Although  I cannot guarantee the future payouts will be as large (it depends on site stats, rules remain the same however), I highly encourage you to join the referral program! I think both 10% of site profit and 0.20% of wagered are not bad margins at all.

There are a few forum signatures (and soon banners) that could help you right here: https://yolodice.com/#referrals

Cheers,
Ethan

A quick update about the referral program:

It looks like we'll be paing almost 5 BTC later today as referral payouts!. This is because we dedicate 10% of site profits to the referral program. The good news is that it's not too late to join the referral program, invite referrals and have a share in this enormous pool. The more your referrals wager, the more your share is.

Thanks to everyone for your support! Running the site like YD is not an easy things, but it's a pure pleasure thanks to you - our players, investors, fans, mods, affiliate partners etc. Thank you for your support so far! I'll keep doing my best!

Cheers,
Ethan

Just one thing - user name is not the same as login. You get a random name in the beginning, but you actually need to set up login credentials later.

There is no automatic mechanism for account recovery. We treat each "I lost my password" case individually. In general I assume users can sign messages with their bitcoin address (aka Master Address) and keep this address secure. Having an email filled can help in recovering account, but it's easier to hack an email account than a properly setup YD account with 2FA. Take this into account! :-)