I placed a test order on the Bitcoinj wallet to sell 0.1 CHA at a 0.001 BTC/CHA rate on 2014-05-05 20:14:36 in this transaction: 3694001add327c018a24370de6031cc1a3e2c15b04b5248b3eb48a2c790d5140

It's been more than a day now since I cancelled that order and my 0.1 CHA still has not returned. What's up with this?

Whoa! That is awesome!! I'm honored.

I just bet my first three CHA yesterday using the Windows GUI, and it did not let me burn or place another bet until the last bet was resolved. It kept giving me an insufficient BTC error message when I had more than enough BTC in my address. After the bet was resolved (and I lost  ), I was able to successfully burn and place another bet. The only work around I have for this, is to use multiple addresses, but I'm pretty sure you guys can fix this.

I envision a future like something out of a Neo-Tokyo cyberpunk movie, with some Japanese teenagers in funny Google glass style optics interacting with a 3D, holographic render of a decentralized Chancecoin wallet/ATM. With a simple hand swipe gesture, a yellow die, appears before their eyes and they watch as it tumbles in digital space. They watch eagerly until the die settles down, awaiting the result, as they continue betting away their useless and heavily inflated digital Yen, in the hopes of earning meager, satoshi-like portions of CHA. They will look back at these posts and wonder how crazy we were to bet away all this money... and we will just laugh, comfortably from the luxury of our mansions, while our grandchildren surround us and ask us to tell them stories about the times we had nothing. About the times that we took the little BTC we had left and "took a chance on Chancecoin."

I'm going long on CHA. "Take a chance on Chancecoin."

1. Go to your Bitcoin daemon folder, which should be "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon" for most people.
2. Right click on "bitcoind" and Send To --> Desktop (create shortcut)
3. Go to the newly created "Shortcut to bitcoind" icon and right click on it, then select "Properties."
4. In the "Target" field, type a space after "C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe" and enter -reindex. It should look like ["C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe" -reindex] without the brackets, of course.
5. Click on "Apply" then "OK."
6. Double click on the bitcoind shortcut to run it.

To safely shutdown bitcond without potentially corrupting the index, use these commands in CMD (without brackets), [cd C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon] and press Enter to access the bitcoind folder, then use the stop command with your RPC user and password, like this, [bitcoind -rpcuser=yourusername -rpcpassword=yourpassword stop] and press Enter. The rpcuser and rpcpassword you specified in your bitcoin.conf file will be used instead of "yourusername" and "yourpassword" from the example I just gave.

When you want to shutdown the computer to resume reindexing at another time, go to the bitcoind shortcut on your Desktop again and REMOVE -reindex so that the "Target" field only has ["C:\Program Files\Bitcoin\daemon\bitcoind.exe"] like it originally did, and then launch the shortcut. If you execute the shortcut again without doing this, you will have to start reindexing ALL OVER AGAIN, so make sure you remove the -reindex option.

At the current rate of block generation (with some blocks being generated sometimes 7 minutes after the last), I'd guess that we'll reach the final block for burning between the 23rd of this month and the 2nd of May. What happens if only a miniscule amount of Chancecoins are created in the burn period? I propose indefinitely extending the burn period until you guys reach a minimum amount of CHA you're both comfortable on starting the project with. At the current rate, it doesn't even look like a million coins will be created.

My Bruce Wayne senses are tingling here. My powers of deduction lead me to believe Magician and Venetian are PhantomPhreak and xnova alts. Very smart asking yourself questions there as a diversionary tactic. Keep up the great work guys. I'm a huge fan. Decentralize everything. If I'm wrong, then this must be the 100th Monkey Effect occurring before our eyes.