PrimeDice has a weird way of doing it. They have a "max payout" of 30 BTC. So if you're betting at 49.5% (2x) the max bet is 15 BTC, but if you're betting at 98% (1.02x) the max bet is close to 30 BTC.

That seems like a really bad idea. There's lots of money to be made (by the house) allowing people to risk 1000 BTC at 98% to win 10 BTC. They will almost always end up losing the 1000 BTC before they win the 10 BTC a hundred times.

It only puts those who use the feature at risk, not the whole site. You are free to not use 'leverage'.

Do you mean 0.02 BTC?

ie. if I bet 1 JADE at 2x and win, do I end up with:

  * 0 JADE and 2 BTC, or
  * 1 JADE and 1 BTC?

Here's a fun thing:

Pick a random point in time, then:

A) the average amount of time from that point to the next CLAM block is 1 minute
B) the average amount of time from that point to the previous CLAM block is also 1 minute
C) the average time between CLAM blocks is also 1 minute

Wouldn't you expect A + B = C? Yet A, B, and C are all 1 minute.

Yeah. A small diamond shape, outline only (not filled in), so it is obviously different.

Thanks. Can you credit it to my account?

I understand the point of the bonus, but it's annoying to lose more than half of the bonus due to a bug in a game rather than to bad luck or bad play.


It would be useful to have a definition for this "unambiguously designed to unlock the bonus" criterion. Everyone who plays wants to unlock the bonus, on some level. Your criterion could be reworded as "if they are trying to unlock it we will cancel it" without changing its meaning much. As it stands, very few people will ever unlock any bonus, and when they do you would have no problem claiming they were playing in a way that was designed to unlock it, and so they can't have it. That isn't fair.


That sounds dangerous. People will try to exploit any +EV bonus you offer.


I was seeing a 404 error, as in the css file didn't exist.

I cancelled the bonus already.

I'm not sure what JadeCoin is.

I'm not sure what you are trying to do exactly. What do you mean by "export my transactions"? What is your goal?

Oh, of course.

I knew there would be an explanation.


How about having unspent outputs show as an edge like any other, but with the destination node having radius zero, so it looks like an edge going nowhere. Then you can show the size of the unspent output using an arrow on the edge.

Edit: I think it would be useful to have the "(unspent)" displayed at all times, not only when moused over. Maybe use a darker colour like #777 or something so it's not too distracting, but still noticeable.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=623147.msg9772191#msg9772191 is the bootstrap post.

I update it whenever I remember it. The last time was about 12 hours ago I guess, so it's pretty up to date.

I don't know why the client gets stuck syncing the chain over the p2p network, but numerous people have reported that it does.

Xploited is working on a new version of the client which will hopefully fix the problem.

This is an interesting tool.

I was just playing with it, and found a node I couldn't expand fully.

https://oxt.me/graph/transaction/tiid/513316177 -- txid 7ea549d6503d18a35bc5254bc03594db57ec59c6197dab6a442e996588706006

It has 8 inputs (all shown) and 6 outputs (of which only 4 are shown). The biggest output isn't shown, and it only shows 2 of the three ~64 BTC outputs.

Any idea why?



Edit: This one too is missing a bunch of outputs: https://oxt.me/graph/transaction/tiid/512934694

It only shows two of the four 91 BTC outputs.

They have fixed the bug now:



But I don't see a refund or bug bounty in my account.

I wonder how many people lost real money to this bug. Lucky for me I was only playing with no-deposit bonus money. But I would still like it refunded.

Edit: forget that. I don't need it refunded. There is no way I have the patience to play 888 times through 15 BTC when the max bet is 1 BTC. That means making 12000 max bets or something. I'm 0.35% of the way through and am already tired of it.

It sounds like you are saying that dollar-pegging your bitcoins is just another name for selling your BTC for USD and storing the USD on a third party site. ie. a bad idea in general.

If Mycelium shuts down, you still have access to the bitcoins in your wallet, but if Coinapult shuts down, presumably you lose any "pegged" bitcoins you were storing with them. Is that right?

OK, thanks, that makes sense.

Charge a fee on withdrawals so you still have a way of making up the shortfall while simultaneously encouraging people to leave their coins with you so a) your insolvency is less likely to become apparent and b) if it all goes wrong you have more coins to exit scam with.


I remember after MtGox went belly up there was a lot of noise made about requiring exchanges to do regular proof-of-solvency audits. Whatever happened to this? Is it still standard practice for exchanges to just ask their clients to trust that they are solvent?

I didn't use cryptsy, but what sense does it make to drop trading fees to 0% when you're trying to make good on insolvency? I would have thought that collecting trading fees would be your best hope of making up the shortfall.

Yes they could. But maybe they wanted to claim it before anyone else did, idk.


"compressed" private keys begin with a K or L,
"uncompressed" private keys begin with a 5.

Check it out by playing about in the 'wallet details' tab on bitaddress.org:

I just tried the video poker game.

It doesn't work very well. There is no way of telling which cards are held and which aren't. Possibly because the link to the bootstrap code is a 404.

I found through experimentation that I could hold cards by clicking on them once. There is no graphical representation that the cards are held, but when I make the 2nd deal the cards I clicked on don't change.

Except when I get a good starting hand. I got two pairs, clicked on the 4 paired cards, redealt, and they all changed!

I guess what was happening was that the game was auto-holding the two pairs for me, and my clicks were un-holding them.

Sigh. What a mess.

This just cost me 10.5 BTC from my bonus.

It is possible to see that clicking the cards changes something by inspecting the card element.

When a card isn't held, it looks like this (the "HOLD" has class ng-hide):



And when it is held, it looks like this (the "HOLD" isn't hidden):



Here's the error I see in the console which may or not be connected to this bug (the bootstrap css isn't found):



I guess I'll have to cancel the bonus now that I've lost almost all of it figuring out what was going on with this broken game.

Well, someone took it, and paid more in fees claiming it than the dust was worth:

Also, what is the situation re. playing poker while I have an uncleared bonus?

The bonus isn't accessible while playing poker, so if I make a profit in poker does it go into my regular balance such that I still have it if I cancel the bonus?

That would make the most sense, since when I risk chips in poker I am risking non-bonus chips, so any profit should be considered outside of the bonus. Right?

I don't think I got an answer to this.

Can you be clear about what bets are allowed while working on a bonus and which are not? I would hate to work through the bonus, get amazingly lucky and clear it without going bust, and then have you disqualify me because I broke some unwritten rule.

So how about you make the rules explicit up front? All I have so far is that anyone who "bets on lower odds to clear his bonus" is disqualified. What is the line below which odds are too low? Are there any games which are safe to play without risking disqualification?

Mullick fixed the backdoor in a public fork of the lucky7coin repo. in April 2015.


One possible explanation is that he was trying to hide any evidence of having been hacked and so he fixed the backdoor in a private copy of the repository. But when he noticed that I had published details of the backdoor it would look bad if he didn't respond by fixing it publicly.


It's "as":

    "you are only seen as the cunts"