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Upcoming change of rules for lucky number calculation
I decided to follow the amazingly simple proposal by dooglus (which is also implemented by SDice in the meantime):
Starting tomorrow morning 1:00 (2013-01-09 01:00 UTC) the calculation of lucky numbers will also take the output index into account. At the same time the bet details pages will also show the new way to verify the lucky number and bet result.
This change is only important for people doing "sendmany" transactions (placing multiple bets in one single transaction). Right now the lucky number is only depending on the transactionID, so each bet of a sendmany transaction will have the same lucky number. This makes it possible for people to effectively avoid the max bet limit, because if the lucky number is low all or most of the bets will win. So there is less statistic variance for me, resulting in a higher risk of needing to do huge payments at once.
When the change is effective each bet of a sendmany transaction will have an individual lucky number. This increase statistical variance, so the risk for me having to do a huge payment is reduced a lot.
Important:
This does not change anything on the win odds or fairness of bitbattle.me! This is just a change to increase the variance of bet results, enabling me to increase the max bet limits and/or reduce the necessary balance of the hot wallet.
I expect the change to go through smoothly. Shortly after this is done also bet limits will be raised and placing multiple bets of the same type within one transaction will be allowed
I decided to follow the amazingly simple proposal by dooglus (which is also implemented by SDice in the meantime):
They could fix that by using a different 'lucky number' for each bet. Use the output number as well as the txid to determine the lucky number. Then they can allow lots of max bets on the same game in a single transaction, without increasing their risk of ruin.
Starting tomorrow morning 1:00 (2013-01-09 01:00 UTC) the calculation of lucky numbers will also take the output index into account. At the same time the bet details pages will also show the new way to verify the lucky number and bet result.
This change is only important for people doing "sendmany" transactions (placing multiple bets in one single transaction). Right now the lucky number is only depending on the transactionID, so each bet of a sendmany transaction will have the same lucky number. This makes it possible for people to effectively avoid the max bet limit, because if the lucky number is low all or most of the bets will win. So there is less statistic variance for me, resulting in a higher risk of needing to do huge payments at once.
When the change is effective each bet of a sendmany transaction will have an individual lucky number. This increase statistical variance, so the risk for me having to do a huge payment is reduced a lot.
Important:
This does not change anything on the win odds or fairness of bitbattle.me! This is just a change to increase the variance of bet results, enabling me to increase the max bet limits and/or reduce the necessary balance of the hot wallet.
I expect the change to go through smoothly. Shortly after this is done also bet limits will be raised and placing multiple bets of the same type within one transaction will be allowed
http://bitbattle.me/game/cf91a9db835341be9997cbb7c9403923/
