Nothing stops the owners playing their own game.  They can even tell before placing a bet whether it will win or not, and decide not to place the losing ones.

What the can't do is make your bets lose more than they should, since the result of your bet is determined in an exact way from the days secret (known only to the site) and your bet's transaction ID and its output number within that transaction.

In other words, there's nothing to stop them placing their own bets (to cheat their shareholders, perhaps), but the laws of mathematics stop them cheating their end users.

I'm not privy to any extra information, but as I understood it Andre pretty much told us that the dollars were gone.


Given the recent price rises it would be possible to pay everyone back a much higher percentage of what they're owed than I previously calculated.


I have exactly the amount of bitcoins that are owed to WBX clients, and none of the dollars.  I can pay back all the coin holders in full, so long as the dollar holders are happy to lose all their dollars.  I doubt that's the case.  I expect there are some bitcoin holders who never deposited, and only ever obtained their bitcoins by exchanging for dollars on the site, although I've not checked that.

Even if I could find an address for each bitcoin holder, it's not safe to assume that (a) they owned  the address that was used to deposit (they could have deposited directly from mtgox, say) or (b) they still controll it now (perhaps they made a new wallet on a new computer, transferred over their balance, and deleted the old wallet).

What needs to happen is for Andre to respond to my attempts to contact him with clear details of exactly what dollar transactions did and didn't really happen.  I have the WBX database, but it includes dollar withdrawals that were never actually put through his bank account, and doesn't include dollar deposits which did actually arrive in his bank account.  Without knowing the details of these I can't divide up the bitcoins correctly (although I can probably get reasonably close).

It sounds here like you're suggesting that 6 plus 3 is 10...

Interesting bet size, 40960.  Looks like someone's been martingale betting...

y4x.com shut down - apparently it was just an experiment.

Different casinos have different blackjack rules.

Some places let you hit split aces and some don't.  It looks like this one doesn't let you.

Check out http://wizardofodds.com/games/blackjack/calculator/ to see how each rule affects the percentage the game pays out.  It looks like being able to hit split aces decreases the house edge by about 0.19%.

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Random guess: $18.88

It's how much the house should be up if they win their expected 1.9% of turnover.

Specifically, it's:


You can get a pretty accurate idea of volume by multiplying the height of the red line by 50.

I just played a few hands.  An error popped up in the bottom right corner.  I rushed to screenshot it before it disappeared but was too slow.  I didn't even get to read it.

After it had gone, the console showed this:

Sure.  I can use 'width=900' if that's a good width.

The blackjack works pretty well for me.

The 'double' button has the 'e' on a different line than the 'doubl'.  (See picture at end of post).

It would be good if hands were logged in the chat maybe.  Sometimes I didn't notice what the result of a hand was in time, and there's no way of looking back.

I've not been able to play multi-player.  My colleague tried to play but "you already received your welcome bonus" (presumably because she has the same IP address as me).

It feels kind of slow.  But that may be because of my 700 ms ping times.  (I'm in Canada, not the US).

I'm only allowed to play one seat at a time.  I can't find a way of leaving my seat.

Except that there's also a check made to make sure that the coins you are spending are old enough and big enough to qualify for no fee.  It multiplies the age of the coin (in days) by the value of the coin (in BTC) and needs to get more than 1 for the spend to be free.

For example, a 12 BTC coin only needs to be 2 hours old to not incur a fee when it's spent (12 * 2/24 == 1) but a 0.01 BTC coin needs to be 100 days old before it can be spent without a fee.

If you're spending multiple coins at once, it sums the product of value and age over all the coins you're spending, and if that sum is greater than 1, the coins are deemed big/old enough.  So you can spend the 2 hour old 12 BTC coin and a brand new 0.01 BTC coin without a fee if you spend them both at once.

I don't understand.  Why is this a facepalm?

Looking at the chat in that pic it looks like you had it auto-doubling for you.

Does the auto-doubler ever try to double the royal flush jackpot?  Maybe you were just lucky that it didn't lose the jackpot for you?

Congrats on your win.