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Game suggestion:
* number 0-99
* Player guesses number
* Computer guesses higher or lower by exactly 1 in the direction
This way it can be a 50/50 proposition. There must be an edge in this game, but I can't figure it out.
Example: [secret number is 86, give sha]
Player (0-99): 50
Computer: (higher and guesses 51)
Player (52-99): 90
Computer: (lower and guesses 89)
Player (52-88): 80
Computer: (higher and guesses 81)
Player (82-88): 85
Computer: (higher and guesses 86)
COMPUTER WINS!
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Just purchased a code, total wait time was about 1 minute. Thanks!
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Can we get an idea of threshold you need? 1000 oz minimum? will that mean $6 over spot? etc.
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Ok guys, have a little announcement for you  This Friday Bitcatch is gonna rock again, new round starts July 22 at 20:00 (8pm) UTC ends at Sunday at 20:00 (8pm) UTC. New round starts with ratio 1.2 and 5% from each bet will go to the jackpot. The jackpot will be send to address with largest total value of bitcoins deposited in second day of the game, this means the more you bet in the second day then higher you chances to win jackpot. The site will show live stats and you'll be able to see who might win jackpot and make your bets based on that info. Rules may change slightly before Friday. min/max? sounds scary. Do funds need to clear 2 confirms by sunday 20:00? Do you expect a 5,000 btc deposit with 1 minute to go? |
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My password wasn't compromised at mtgox.
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Jackpot which goes to the last player proved fatal to this round.... Let's play without it next time!
i like the jackpot. How about a defined timeline, but the 2nd highest deposit wins the jackpot? I already suggested game ends after no new bids after 24 hrs or a 10.00 btc deposit to kill the round. Or, countdown time starts off at 24 hours, but goes down 2 minute after each deposit, i.e 1st deposit is 23hrs 58 mins. 2nd deposit is 23 hrs 56 mins, etc. |
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maybe a running pot total could be posted somewhere. Or, another column which shows how much new money is needed for payout by each entry.
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Banned member bounty: 20btc
The banned member would get a perpetual loan of 20btc from a 3rd party and the forum would pay the bills to the loaning institution (say 1btc/year @ 5%). When/if the member comes back, the bills stop being paid, but the banned member still has to pay the 20btc back, enforced by 3rd party. This way, the banned member can spend his 20btc right away. As long as he doesn't come back, he's fine.
This is how you bribe people - you can't just give someone $100,000 and promise they don't leak the photos of you and your wife's sister. Everyone has to have a vested interest.
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So round #3 is over, even though someone has placed a wager within the last 24hrs? Round #3 has different rules, that's why i started special thread for round #4. arggh, so the rules to the right on round #3 don't apply to round #3? Those people investing at 18:29:50 must have expected a miracle! enjoy my 0.30 coins whoever at the top! |
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So round #3 is over, even though someone has placed a wager within the last 24hrs? |
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suggestion for jackpot rounds:
Bounty to end the current round, say 10 BTC (50% to owner, 50% to pool). If the jackpot gets close/over 10, there would be an incentive for the last guy to pay the bounty and win the jackpot.
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Sorry, but I can't find my answers in the threads..
A) If someone bets less than the minimum (0.30) or more than the maximum (1.2), they can still 'play' and get the 10%, but they are not eligible for the jackpot, nor does it move the countdown timer another 24hrs?
B) an 'unconfirmed entry' doesn't extend the clock, so you shouldn't wait until there is 5 minutes left in the 24hr period to place an entry
C) how many confirms until official?
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What is confusing is using a decimal point at a level other than the BTC level. I suggest if anyone uses a decimal point, it is implied at the BTC level 4.12345678 BTC is equal to the sum of:  x 4  x 123  x 456  x 78 It would be bad practice to say 4,123.45678 mBTC |
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Glanced through this whole thread, and think you're onto something.
Observation: Isn't it funny how we all (at least in the US) can look at a $5 bill, three $1 bills, 5 quarters, 6 dimes, a nickle and 4 pennies and quickly come up with $9.94? Imagine if someone on the boards here suggested that a 'gavin' is 0.25 btc, and a 'binary' is 0.05, he would get laughed off the boards.
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received coins today, happy with them.
Thank you
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D) I send the private keys of 1NickABCD to Firstbits and the pointer 1NickXYZ...
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Private keys of 1NickABCD are then published on firstbits. Now 1NickXYZ... would show up at firstbits as "1Nick"
I don't understand. I expect that future Bitcoin GUIs will have a firstbits type of process available. Redirecting your firstbits search would cause too much confusion. And why send your private key to firstbits? So they can forward to your other address? Ehh, I don't think anyone would use that. Yeah, it would involve a central authority, which most won't go for. Trying to get around you spending coins intended for myself. Even if you were to destroy the private key after transfer, if there was ever a breach in a client's wallet, there would be doubt cast upon yourself. |
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I am generating lots of other interesting addresses and I want to sell them.
This can't work. You will still have the private key of those addresses, which means you can spend any coins sent to them. You cannot sell an address, you can only share it, which hardly anybody would be interested in. Firstbits.com could allow pointing of the address to another, no? A) I find 1NickABCD, and "1Nick" is the firstbits after I send 0.00001 btc to it. B) Along comes Nick Smith who wants to buy 1Nick for 10BTC. C) Nick Smith Generates 1NickXYZ... on his own and sends 0.0001 btc to it D) I send the private keys of 1NickABCD to Firstbits and the pointer 1NickXYZ... E) Transaction is complete, I get 10BTC Private keys of 1NickABCD are then published on firstbits. Now 1NickXYZ... would show up at firstbits as "1Nick" |
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If you're going to do that, I'll need you to pay $55
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I was going to say - what this really needs is a Firefox Search plugin that makes it so the web site doesn't need to be there, or get hammered, it just goes to the block chain.
But then I remembered my "Add To Search Bar" add-on and tried that. Sure enough one -right-click and FirstBits is now a search entry on the Firefox Search Bar. I can drop an address in there and it does the magic.
How does this work exactly? Your search bar now knows to convert an address to it's firstbits? Or it assumes the firstbits.com/ and takes you to the page? I guess this "Add To Search Bar" plugin takes the actual url of the form action and adds that as an url in the search bar. It doesn't show me the url though - it's embedded in the search bar. Here's the home page for the add-on https://firefox.maltekraus.de/extensions/add-to-search-barI just see a form field and right click on it to turn it into a search bar item. pretty cool:  |
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