Sure, but think about where you like to gamble.  You want to gamble in a beautiful place or in a fun place.  I like fallout too, but the theme of DT casino is a casino.  So people are buying drinks and smoking cigars and looking at fireworks and shaking coconut trees and whatnot.  I'm just not sure how to get comfortable and gamble in fallout.  BTW, do you play on DT?  What's your name there?

Level 3 players are allowed on Tiki?!  Is that the island that you used to have to be level 8 to go to?!  I think I tried to pick up a ticket to Tiki only yesterday and it still said I had to be level 8 to go there....

I guess I need to look more closely at BIP44.  Perhaps the answer to my question is in there.  And, what you said about metadata certainly hints at an answer.  I should clarify, though, it's not that I'm writing software to implement this, it's that I'm just curious how current software does it.  I use, for example, Schildbach's wallet for android.  This wallet has an hd seed and I know what the seed is.  I was simply imagining how I might recover all my transactions in some worst-case scenario where all I had left was my seed.  If I loaded my seed into a wallet, how could I know in principle whether a given address was in my tree of addresses upon loading the blockchain?

From what I've seen of this, the most crucial problem was not checking for success (ie status 200) on the HTTP response.  While in my opinion, it seems a little pointless to use an http connection to an external service to get entropy on a device that has a gyroscope/radio and several other natural noise sources (in addition to SecurRandom), it seems that if the had simply validated the response from random.org properly they would have caught this before it caused real problems.

Hopefully XT will get rolled into core long before any fork occurs.  At least that's what I'm hoping for.  The last thing bitcoin needs is more drama regarding which fork of the software is the better one to be on.

@knightdk, It's not clear from OP that he downloaded a source tarball, he may have the binaries in there and just not know how to run them, he only says that ./bitcoin-qt returns an error (he doesn't say what error).  Ie, he may not need to build, he may just need to make his binary execurable.

Also, "make install" probably requires root elevation.

@OP:


But more seriously, you have to actually post what the error messages are if you want someone to help you.  I have to say it again and again on these forums: there are people who know how to read those messages even if you don't---post them here if you want real help.  Saying "I got an error" is too vague.

Okay, I got sucked in and lost like 4 hours of my day the other day to this game.  I got to like 3rd at one point and oh my god.

But one thing I couldn't really figure out was how there doesn't end up being one blob that eats like the whole game.  Since I never got to 1st, I don't know, but how is it that one blob doesn't get to 1st and then become unbeatable and basically own the board?  Maybe it's because eventually one of those green things will appear in your stomach and burst you?

Hi guys, I may be missing something crucial here, but I'm sure you guys will correct me soon enough.

HD wallets let a user worry less about making a new backup for change addresses because the change addresses are all deterministically generatable from the seed.  That let me to thinking about restoring from an hd backup.  Say you only have the seed and you've lost everything else.   Your wallet needs to know which addressess are yours when it loads the blockchain, it should show you your balance based on how many addresses on the blockchain have spendable coins and belong to you.  But here's the question, how deep in the tree of generatable addresses should it go when looking?  How can it know beforehand (on a restore) how deep in the tree you went in creating addresses for yourself.

For example, consider receiving an address as you load the blockchain, you ask yourself "is this my address"?  No.  Is this my first change address?  No.  Is this my second change address? No.  ...  When do you stop and say, "okay, this address isn't in my tree of addresses"?

Thanks in advance for the insight!

@sawdice, I think it's not so polite to bold everything in every post.  Just sayin'

Otherwise, thanks for the clarifications.

Well, you are the expert of dropping unsubstantiated allegations, so [ fill in a pointlesss but witty retort to Quickseller's trolling here ] Who knows really?  The main point is that hillarious caught them at it.  Which was pretty cool of him, imo.

You're probably right, unfortunately.  I've seen it quite often that greed trumps common-sense on these forums.  Alas.

Actually, the fact that they're using random characters probably means it isn't a bot.  Think about it, people need to generate junk and they just smash on the keyboards.  If you have a script and you need to generate junk, why not just use some random words in a dictionary or something.

Anyway, the fact that they're using the same strategy does seem to indicate that it's the same person doing it.

Nice job, hillariousanco, for finding it!  Good catch!

That actually makes a lot of sense.  Not everyone would have thought about respecting the bandwidth of the site this way.  Yet another example of bitmixer.io being a very good asset to the community, imo.

Full disclosure: I advertized for them for a very long time and I am a big fan.

@andresmm91, I agree with SebJu, that seems a little over-the-top.  I think it's best to contact the OP by pm and see what info he already has.  Blazedout has a telephone number for him, obviously, and the guy who is OP may also have that info.  A debt-is-a-debt, and it's not good, but it's not a murder.  I think we don't want to make things worse than they already are.

Also, FWIW, I know Maidak's real name as well, from having done some work for him.  So it may be that most of us know his info.  And if all you had to do was facebook that name then it's probably the case that what you've discovered here isn't really all that much new.

@moonbind those are indeed reasonable places, or so I've heard, I can't get my browser to work with either one of them, alas.

@bitcoinpoker.gg I agree that the freerolls were not a success as they stood.  The goal should have been to get folks to use the freerolls a bit but to bascially be jumping into ring-games or tournaments.  It may sound weird, but here's a (possibly outlandish) suggestion:

1) Shutdown for a week
2) Drop a huge marketing campaign---rebranding, opening soon, giveaways, freerolls, etc!
3) Pay 10 of your closest friends to play at ring tables all weekend the first weekend
4) ...
N) Profit!

Just an idea, I just mean that you want to build up hype and try to get everyone who has any interest in that hype log in at the same time.  So, that's why I wonder if you shutdown and build hype then reopen if it might work.

It also creates a new address for change each time you spend some BTC and require a change address.  But these days bitcoin wallet for android is using addresses created deterministically from a seed of tweleve ascii english words.  You can find those words in your wallet backup.  Anyway, I thought I'd just add this fact in case you didn't realize that all of those addresses you're creating can be "rediscovered" from the seed---so no worries about needing a new backup each time you make an address.

I don't agree with you guys here. At least not completely.  The erstwhile sealswithclubs.eu always processed withdrawals manually and they did so as an added layer of security.  It's not clear to me that the only point of bitcoin is instaneousness.  I agree that instant stuff is fun and beautiful and enjoyable, but I'd put security above those adjectives in my own ranking.

BTW, congrats to yoder and @sawdice, I hope people start being a little nicer to you soon.  Seems like you're doing your best here.

DC, but what's wrong with holding money in fiat?  Having a big bankroll is having a big bankroll and if you're worried about how they secured their bitcoin wallet, perhaps they were actually safer when their money was in a traditional bank (FDIC in USA, or whatever equivalent).  Anyway, I agree that they should sign a message from the address.  Just suggesting that these guys seem to be step-by-step, doing the right thing, and this situation, as it stand now, is much better than things looked a few days ago when everyone assumed they were long gone.

Looking forward to hearing back from yoler that he got he withdrawal.

Has it not been updated since this has been reported (basically everwhere!)?  That's almost more shocking than the original fuckup itself!

In my experience it's actually very few sites that can run in the browser without issues (downloads, flash, location, etc---that's types of issues).  I also wish there was ring game action, at this point, the people in the freerolls won't even join me anymore.  I'm pretty sure it's just faucet leeches with a new kinda faucet---not poker players.