Hmmm, that's slightly more expensive than my usual supplier (that doesn't take bitcoins, granted). Will you give quantity discounts? What quantities do you have available for the 1oz and 2oz horses?

The nano, storage size and colour? How much extra to ship to Europe, so I can bid all inclusive?

Sorry about that. Sometimes ledgers are incompletely processed and I have to manually apply them. Rest assured that everything gets applied, but sometimes it takes a little while. I'm working on understanding why this is, but I was to date unable to trigger this behaviour on demand and it doesn't happen often enough to allow me to properly debug.

If it happens again just post here or PM me and I'll get things rolling right away, but even without any heads up I check for these cases very regularly.

Don't forget DICEonCRACK and The Amazing Bitcoin Lottery which, while experiencing very low volume as of late are still very much alive.

The forum threads that explain all about it:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120239.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=121920.0

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=120602.0

Oh well, count me out then.

Where are you located?

Well, you should read up on how DoC works. It doesn't place a single bet, but works a strategy for you, so each bet is 99.x% changes of winning, but it places a lot of them. You need to understand the math to properly have a feel for it.

For example, the last lost bet for BTC has 99.678% winning odds per bet, but it places up to 1000 bets and will pay 24.646x if the player wins. You can't compare the odds directly to what other dice games advertise.

Incidentally this last I mentioned was a minefield game, in which 1000 bets are placed from your initial wager and all need to stay below a certain number (65325 in the example) on a random draw between 0 and 65535. The reason everything is "red" right now is that the last bettors tried for the high payouts, which will statistically fail often but pay very well on success.

It should be all explained on the thread pointed to in my previous message, but let me know if you have any doubt.

A good opportunity to play DICEonCRACK?

Yes, I know, shameless plug...

Thanks to the work of snailbrain and crew, DividendRippler now supports NMC

DividendRippler now supports NMC!

Everyone that has registered will have a new NMC issue address and can set their NMC redeem address. Don't forget to trust DR for NMC before you try to issue!

The redeem fees are fixed at 0.005 NMC which will used as tx fees for the outgoing transaction.

Thanks to snailbrain and his crew for improving namecoind enough to be usable by DR.

As always, let us know of any problems.

Yeah, I don't think I'll come even close to your asking price, so chances are you will either sell due to my bump or reuse them. Still, just thinking out loud here:

The B&Ws I can get locally for ~£500, and I see 2 ebay.co.uk auctions with bids, one for £52 currently (6d to go, but there's a dent) and one for £255 (3d to go, but stands are included). In the UK they seem to go for under £400 on the stores.
As for the Sonos amp, locally it goes for ~£425 and the cheapest I see it on ebay is £285 (3d to go, full warranty new in the box), cheapest buy now is £390, but that's a store selling brand new. I can get it on Amazon uk too, for £395 less VAT, so ~£330.

With all that, it would cost me £925 to buy in my corner shop, likely less than £750 in the UK. So my offer is £450 in BTC, shipped. If you can assert there is still some warranty left and I can verify I'll be able to use it here I may increase that value, but otherwise that's the very best offer I can make, considering the risks.

I'm in Europe, yes. How old are these, do they still have warranty? 75% is way too high unless they are like new and have 1 year+ warranty left that I can exercise internationally.

Not sure, too tired to look. He was proposed to me by a fellow bitcoiner with whom I made a trade, and he's very well known for his mining pool, ozco.in

Other than having held quite a few BTC on my behalf, he's a very friendly person and I most certainly trust him. Now, you need to do your own due diligence before you take my word for it, of course.

Graet and John are my go-to people when in need of escrow.

I'm not in the UK so I'll need things shipped. Also I'm mostly interested in the Sonos, although for the right price I'll certainly take both. Any idea on how much you are looking for?

Necro bump, do you still have these?

I missed this at the time it was posted, but Daniel Cawrey wrote a piece at coindesk that mentions TAABL (and DICEonCRACK), both services I developed and, well, the criticism as presented makes me think of the current economical situation of the world and how people look at their governments for a fix instead of trying to do something themselves. Much like an unprotected child seeks the comfort of the mother's skirt, I guess:


So, all non reported bitcoin transactions (where the outsider doesn't know the source or destination) are suspicious? Also, when you play the state lottery, do you know where the money comes from? Sure you do, from the people that play, just like on TAABL. The difference is that on TAABL you can be sure all the bets are accounted for without the need of an external entity and the cut the service takes is minimal, not covering the costs of developing and running it to be honest (all in the name of making money, of course).

The original TAABL was born as an experiment to interface with the bitcoin daemon, and had its moment of fame. The current version of it is quite different but keeps the same spirit. Now, no one ever asked me or the other people involved about the problems of running this "operation", and as such I offered no diversion to deflect anything. I love how it sounds like the guy tried to contact us and we avoided any reply... oh well. Half baked, silly journalism seems to be the common press style around bitcoins anyway.

All this would be fine, but he is calling bitcoin a "silly currency" and putting what might very well be the longest running bitcoin service (ok, not true, it did stop and was restarted as something a little different) in the same page as scams, schemes, money laundering, blackmail and drug deals. Color me impressed...

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying you are trying to scam people, I have no reason to believe that. What I said is that it is awkward you demand people trust you to do business with you and you refuse to trust others based on your very own metrics. I have dealt with a LOT more bitcoins than you, have had plenty of opportunity to steal truck loads of coins but have not. That means nothing for future events and that's why we use an escrow service we both can trust on most deals done here. I mean, how long have you been around? I could point you to a number of long time members that were the archetype of honesty and one day disappeared, taking other people's bitcoins in the process, it is just the way it is.

Still, best of luck selling the RPI, it is a fairly good deal with the bundle you propose, though not good enough to justify taking risks (*) even for a small amount of coins.

(*) - and if it was a good enough deal to take the risk it would likely fall in the category of "If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is".

That's fine, thanks anyway. I don't mind trusting others, really, but when someone says "trust me, others can vouch for me" and then says "I trust noone, no matter how trusted they are in the community" it really says a lot about the risks involved.

So you understand why I won't send first either, as you can assert that if you can't trust me then I definitely can't trust you

Back to escrow then, will you accept it? Buying through ebay and paying fees is a no-go, you'd have to lower your price, otherwise it is just as expensive to buy though the distributor and then I have warranty and can write off the expense.