It's back up.  I don't know why it chose the 16% of the day that I was unconscious for to freeze hard, but it did.

Will get onto preventing that from happening again as soon as I'm done responding to the "it's down" posts. 

That looks like a less than 1% loss.  The site risks up to 1% of your investment on every dice roll.  You realise that, right?

The house edge is 1%, so lots of variance is to be expected.  It's possible you'll make a quick profit, or a quick loss.  The edge means that the longer you stay in, the more likely you are to make a profit.

I hope it's clear that we are using your investment to back bets that players make, and that sometimes we will lose...

Yeah, sorry to startle you.  That's just me waking up, seeing another bunch of coins arrived while I was sleeping and shifting them to the cold wallet.

<beep!>

When you see the coins moving out of that address and the site is still down, it's time to worry.  Until then it's probably a technical problem on the server.

Thanks uvwvj for the vote of confidence. 

For great just-dice.

You set 'em up & I'll knock 'em down.

So I don't know what happen.  I watch the site 20 hours a day, and then when I get a few hours sleep it locks up.  Very odd.  If it had just crashed, it would have been automatically restarted, but it froze hard and stayed frozen.

I'm looking into it and hope to have a solution real soon now.  Sorry for the inconvenience and stress.

Yes.  I am committed to never accepting more than 21 million coins.  We have to leave some for the players to play with.

But seriously, I think it will limit itself.  When the site has more coins than it needs, the expected return will be poor enough that investors would do better putting their coins elsewhere, and so they will.

And if we carry on losing like we have been today, then it won't be an issue.  We just dropped below 1% profits for the first time since launch (I think?), having been comfortably up in the 3 to 4% range a lot recently:

  wagered: 9,484.45 BTC
  site is up: 87.98 BTC

Congratulations to all the winners today.

That's nice, but it is not a matter of opinion.

If I bet heads on a coin toss, then toss a coin, see that I've got tails and so throw the coin away and let you make the 2nd toss, don't you think I have a better chance of winning?

HH = win
HT = win
TH = win
TT = lose

I have a 75% chance of winning if I'm allowed to abandon the first result when I don't like it.

I like the idea of letting your players bankroll the site.  You're a genius! 

I tried adding it to the spreadsheet, but can't remember what all the fields mean.  HA = helpful admin, etc.

I did the best I could and hope you'll finish it off...

It only takes me a few minutes, but it takes the laptop half an hour of using all available RAM and generally being slow and unpleasant to use.  I guess I need to be a little less obsessive about it.  Maybe post more regularly towards the end of the month, and less often early on?

Yeah.  That's what I said, only shorter. 

It's like we're both sock-puppets.

Interesting idea, but I'm not sure I understand.

Why would I take part in a group bet when I could just make the bet myself?  I get the same odds, the same payout, and I don't have to trust you to actually place the bet.

I can see it making sense for me, because it doesn't feel right playing Just-Dice myself since I have access to the server and its delicious secrets.  But that only applies to me.

I guess there's the coolness factor.  "Look, we're putting a 9k BTC bet on 98%".  You could end up placing the biggest bet in Bitcoin dice-site history* that way.  Is there any reason I'm missing?

According to organofcorti's blog post:


That's just for SatoshiDice, but that is probably the biggest 'dice site' bet to date, although I hope Just-Dice beats that record soon.  We had three 100 BTC bets today, and have had a 200 BTC bet a couple of days ago, so it's possible.

Are people still interested in these reports I make?  It's been a while since anyone commented, so I don't know if I'm just wasting my time or not.

At last:

133 2013-06-26 06:15:05 (1) manually crediting user 2063 with amount 0.01 zakoliverz
134 2013-06-26 06:15:07 (1) manually crediting user 1973 with amount 0.01 Moogle
135 2013-06-26 06:15:09 (1) manually crediting user 2107 with amount 0.01 pankkake
136 2013-06-26 06:15:10 (1) manually crediting user 2090 with amount 0.01 Jeweller
137 2013-06-26 06:15:12 (1) manually crediting user 672 with amount 0.01 MattFoster42
138 2013-06-26 06:15:13 (1) manually crediting user 2173 with amount 0.01 coco23
139 2013-06-26 06:15:14 (1) manually crediting user 2182 with amount 0.01 MrBubbles007
140 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2137 with amount 0.01 juhakall
141 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2237 with amount 0.01 dandefer
142 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2368 with amount 0.01 deltanine
143 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2423 with amount 0.01 superbit
144 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2436 with amount 0.01 clock27
145 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2263 with amount 0.01 hellopapi
146 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2397 with amount 0.01 carpetbagger
147 2013-06-26 06:15:25 (1) manually crediting user 2437 with amount 0.01 sockopen
148 2013-06-26 06:15:27 (1) manually crediting user 2466 with amount 0.01 Canna
149 2013-06-26 06:15:28 (1) manually crediting user 2474 with amount 0.01 Lambert

Sorry for the delay, but I think it has only been 24h at most.

I noticed that I was spending far too much time on this thread, so decided it would be a better use of my time to go through it at the end of each day.  That's now...  I'm making a list and checking it twice.  I'm gonna find out who's naughty or nice.

I'm sorry if I offended you.  It was meant to be funny but I can see it came across as rude.  I don't think you were spamming, I think you were genuinely excited about the site.  I wanted some of that excitement on my own thread, and asked for it in a dumb way...

I won't rule it out, but I don't think so, no.

I think so.



That's black on black.  Am I right?  

Could it be because your investment is such a small percentage of the whole that your share of the profits and losses during the time you were watching were below the satoshi rounding threshold?  If you have 0.01% of the site's bankroll, you get 0.01% of the profits and losses.

I have a relatively large investment and even then during quiet periods only the last couple of digits of my invested amount twitch back and forth.

The invested amount is the same as the bankroll.  If you are the sole investor, invest 100 BTC, then someone bets and loses 1 BTC, your investment is worth 101 BTC, and the site is up 1 BTC.

When you then withdraw your 101 BTC, the amount invested is 0, and the site is still up 1 BTC.

So "yes, no, and the latter".

Did you see the list of bets here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=238613.msg2578513#msg2578513

There's a pattern in the amount he bet each roll...