People on reddit weren't understanding the market depth change bars even after reading the WTF? help text, so I wrote this explanation:

    http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1aqtgo/a_note_for_newbies_about_market_forces_feel_free/c8zz2ro

Feel free to use any of it if you want to, if it's clearer than your current help text.

Any progress towards making blackjack competitive with other bitcoin casinos?  Like paying out properly for blackjack, and allowing splits?

I was only revisiting the old wallet to see if I had left anything in it.  I was pretty sure I hadn't, but was just checking.

Thanks for the reply.

The graphs only show confirmed payouts, so the big lessthan 1 bet isn't included yet, but it does show up as a pending liability, and in the bottom line:

I used to use InstaWallet a couple of years ago.  I have the secret URL and the corresponding bitcoin address saved.

I just visited the secret URL, but the bitcoin address it shows is different than the one it used to show.

Is this normal?  The address it shows now has never been used in any transactions, whereas I used my Instawallet quite a lot.

Only once.  When I was at 2112 posts, I switched my avatar to Rush's 2112 album cover.  Later, I wanted to switch back, and couldn't remember which one I had used before.

I have a whole bunch of differently zoomed versions, which I went through one at a time on my Sapphire casino account before I got banned for winning too much or being too helpful or something I forget what now.  So I've not zoomed my avatar in probably over a month, but well spotted.  

Edit: I've zoomed back out, so you can all relax again.

... and drive away users, and make the value of Bitcoin nosedive.  Enjoy your increased-but-worth-less block reward?

I've asked before how they decide which bets to process immediately and which to delay and was told it's a secret.

Sorry for bumping your thread back onto the first page of the gambling forum again - I know you hate the publicity - but I found another little issue:

I had a stray half a uBTC in my account, and wanted to win another half to tidy things up.  I know, kind of OCD, but there you go.

I got the blackjack I needed, and hit 'cash out'.  Then nothing happened, and continued to happen for 10 minutes.  The 'cash out' button is transparent, showing that it has been clicked, but I guess the network connection timed out or something, and there's no script in place to notice that it happened, so it just hangs.



I just tried clicking 'cash out' again, and it worked this time, even though the transparency of the button suggests that it's inactive.

If they tell you whether you've won or lost before your bet has confirmed, you can attempt to double-spend your losing bets (send the same coins to yourself) and hope that a miner confirms your double-spend, not your losing bet.  There was/is even a bot double-spending people's losing bets for them automatically.

You only need that to work occasionally to overcome the 1.9% house edge.

That would be my guess as to why they're not accepting zero-conf bets any more.

Interesting idea.  You could even use transactions that are unlikely to confirm.  They'll be passed around the p2p network, and will work as a robust messaging mechanism.

That is so much better.  If I have more than 0.1 BTC then I probably don't care about the tiny fractions.

Somebody already tried this.

My worst experience was playing lessthan 24000 using martingale betting.  I was doubling my bet each time I lost, so that when I eventually won I'd see a nice profit.

I started low, at 0.122 BTC, because that's so far off the max bet that I'm bound to win before I reach it, right?

And lost 0.122, 0.244, 0.488, 0.976, 1.952, 3.904, 7.808, 15.616, 31.232...

I don't consider myself a gambler, had probably never bet more than $5 on anything ever, yet here I was about to be 62.464 BTC on a dice roll.  This was back in September when Bitcoins were 'only' $12 each, but still I had already lost $750 and was about to bet another $750 to try to win it back.

I was on a scary kind of gambling auto-pilot by now.  No time to stop and think about what I was doing.

So I bet the 62 BTC and won 166 BTC, leaving a nice profit of 42 BTC or similar.  But it scared me badly enough that I don't want to play any more.

I guess for a real gambler this wouldn't be a "worst experience" story.  Which tells me I'm not cut out to be a gambler.

Yeah.  Maybe that's the only way you can do it, I don't know.  But it would seem to make more sense to update the scoreboard when the score changes, not on a time interval.

That one's gone too.  What's the story?  I missed it.

Did you add them yet?  I'm still getting 6:5 for blackjacks, and can't see how to split.

Do you think you need to show a couple more decimal places?  This looks silly.  "First dig is worth 0":

While playing blackjack for playmoney, my balance sometimes goes down when I bet, and sometimes doesn't.  Sometimes it stays the same until the hand is over, and only then updates.