Ok... Thanks... very useful and good to know info there

In the meantime, I have figured out a "hackish" work around that works for my situation... instead of trying to use the stop() command outside the dobet(), I just initialise the bet amount to 0. This causes the site to refuse the bet as an invalid amount and the script will halt without any danger to my bankroll

The whole point of this was to enable me to add in some sanity checks on my variable settings and stop if I had mis-typed something and didn't notice (again )

Hi Seuntjie...

Not sure if this is by design or a bug. But I have discovered that there is no way to stop the bot from making at least 1 bet.

After an unfortunately accident where I set the bot running with an incorrect value set and YOLO'd 10 million credits in one hit (worth around 0.002 BTC) and LOST , I decided a little double-check code was in order before the bot starting betting to try and ensure it wouldn't happen again.

However, the bot seems to be ignoring stop() commands that are placed outside the dobet() function and just starts betting!!?! 

So I made up a little test script as follows:


Theoretically, it should stop() and not do anything right??

However... this is what happens:



The bot seems to ignore the first stop() command and just goes ahead and does whatever is in the dobet() function anyway!!?! 

Is that by design or a bug?  I have tested with 3.3.1 and 3.3.0 and both exhibit the same behaviour.

That is true, but you can limit the effectiveness of "Big Stack" players by playing limit games as opposed to No Limit games. It helps to even things out should a whale arrive at the table with a massive bankroll and try and bully all the short stacks.

The other option is to play sit n go's or tournaments where everyone starts with the same amount...

However, if you want to play the cash games with no limits, expect that sooner or later, some guy with way more money than you will show up. The best thing you can do at that point is leave if you aren't comfortable playing against them.

Hahahahaha famous last words... and my parlay goes down in flames thanks to Liverpool being their usual awesome selves and losing to teams in the bottom half of the table... sigh... being a Liverpool Fan is such hard work sometimes #YNWA

Still, congrats to the Foxes... a solid performance, can't take that away from them...

Guess there is always next week to recoup my losses

Not sure what the lack of active nodes has to do with it? It was simply a case of incoming transactions being generated faster than the miners could put them into blocks... which is partly related to the whole blocksize issue... imagine if we could store up to twice as many transactions in a single block! *cough*SegWit*cough*

The "attack" part of it comes from the theory that "bad people"™ were generating thousands upon thousands of transactions and purposely flooding the mempool. Why someone would want to do this, is the topic for a different discussion.

2 legs down... and my Parlay is looking pretty good. Just need Liverpool to do the business in the morning and I am solid... @2.97 odds, I kinda wish I had wagered a little more now...

still with Liverpool being consistently inconsistent like they are... who knows, 2015/2016 Leicester might decide to show and play

One bank has a service issue and it's customers are inconvenienced... Doesn't really affect anyone outside of the 15million Barclay's customers.

Now, playing devils advocate here... what about the issues of late with the enormous amount of unconfirmed transactions floating around in the mempool?

Sure, you can pay "massive" fees to "try" and prioritise your transaction^[1], but even that may not work if you put your transaction in with a "decent" fee at say 40K transactions... and suddenly there are 80K transactions in the pool 10 minutes later before a block is mined!

Bitcoin and "The Blockchain"™ just have a different set of issues from more traditional forms of value store/transfer... it is far from the utopia that some of the cryptoevangelists would have you believe.


[1]: Relative compared to the fees we have had to pay historically... and let's face it... it is still just a gamble... there is no obligation for the miners to include any given transaction into a block.

3-1 seems like it would have been a good option for the correct score to me... Although I figured it would be 3-0 to Chelsea and then Swansea would score a late consolation...

Still, the start of my parlay is off to a good start. Just need Spurs and Liverpool to come through with the goods now

Seuntjie,

A quick question regarding the "Maximum Bets" value in the stats window... is that the Bot's best "guess" at how many bets I can make using current settings before the dreaded "Bet is larger than Balance" message appears?

Well... could be an interesting weekend of fixtures... there are some relatively tricky match ups!

The only real gimme is Chelsea v. Swansea... and that is reflected in the fairly poor 1.257 odds on offer I would probably take Spurs over Stoke @1.431 and even throw in my beloved (but terribly inconsistent) Liverpool to beat Leicester @1.639...

3way Parlay with a payout of 2.948... we'll see how we go

Leicester City were never really THAT good... they had a lucky season where the top teams were all struggling for consistency and they took their opportunity to become unlikely winners. This season is just showing that they don't have the depth or quality of players to maintain a position at the top of the EPL.

It reminds of Blackburn Rovers of the early 90's who won the title in 94-95... and then finished 20 points off 1st place the following year.

I don't think cloud mining has ever been "viable"... and after the most recent halving, I doubt any reputable cloud mining service will be able to provide much in the way of return. The numbers just don't stack up.

Honestly, the sooner the whole cloud mining industry disappears, the better as far as I'm concerned. Then we won't get so many threads asking if "XYZ Cloud Mining Inc" is a legit operation

Most likely an issue with the data being received from 999Dice...

The bot can only calculate and report on the values it gets returned by the various APIs... I've had instances where the chart suddenly does a fantastic jump because the response from the server was messed up. My balance and everything was OK.

Also, the scale of the graph is dynamic. It changes as your profit goes up/down... so you can get a situation where if your profit per roll is only like 1 unit, but the scale on the left is relatively large (say measured in 100000's of units for instance) it will make the line look very flat...

what sort of bet size and profit per roll are you getting?


Can't really comment on the rest of your questions, because without knowing the settings, it is impossible to tell what is happening... to insert an image, you need to upload it to an image sharing site like imgur and then use the [ img] tags (Imgur will actually generate them if you click the "share" button on the Imgur website... you want the BBCode link )

The general format is:

It would probably help in the sense that it goes a (very) small way to stop the centralisation of mining... but your 1 miner would be like a grain of sand on the beach

It wouldn't really do much to help decrease confirmation times or anything like that...

You might get super lucky and hit a block and get the payout... but the capital outlay and ongoing costs of running a miner would probably just cost you a lot of money, for very little in the way of either personal or global reward...

Mining in a pool may increase it's chances of finding a block... but you're probably just helping to make others money and not really "improving" the network a great deal...

Nitrogensports.eu offers a massive variety of betting options... just not always on ALL games in ALL leagues. That would be a huge effort to figure out proper odds for some of the lower league stuff...

But just clicking at random you can see in Belgium First Division A, they offer a range of Over/Under options:



In my experience, they have one of the largest selection of bets available for the largest selection of leagues and competitions... I've never had issues with deposits/withdrawls... and the support will usually contact you within 24 hours.

Grading of bets was also generally pretty quick... I think the longest I ever waited was about 30 minutes... but I've never wagered on ESports (which apparently can take quite a while sometimes)


As another option, maybe you could contact Nitrogen and ask them if they can add the options you want? 

Ok, after a little investigation because of the "crazy fees" post... I discovered that the Credit Card purchase in-app option that links to the Simplex service is a MASSIVE rip off.

Currently (1000 hrs UTC 2017-02-17), this service is charging USD$1200 for 1 BTC. The going rate is around USD$1050 for 1 BTC. That is a markup of around 15%!!?!

The poor guy in the crazy fees thread paid $50 and got $36 worth of bitcoins... which is a 30% difference! (And is currently what $50 will get you)

I'm not sure if the ludicrous "fees" are being charged by Simplex for use of the service, or if they are set by Mycelium or what... but come on guys, surely you need to make sure that the services you are offering are actually a worthwhile for your users! 

Sounds like you used a really bad exchange to purchase your bitcoins and got ripped off... or you are buying in one currency, and Mycelium is displaying in another (I think it defaults to USD).

If it was indeed some sort of "fee" that you got hit with, I doubt they will be BTC transactions fees. These are measured in satoshis/Byte and generally aren't very large. If you look at: https://bitcoinfees.21.co/ you can get an idea of the BTC transaction fees people are using...

As at 1000 UTC 2017-02-17:

0.00031640 BTC is ~$0.33c at current prices.


NOTE: Transaction fees are purely voluntary, you can technically choose whatever you like as a fee, even zero... just don't expect miners to include your transaction if you use a low or no fee.


EDIT:

OK, so I just checked out the BUY/SELL option in Mycelium...  Simplex wants USD$1200 to buy 1 BTC... the current going rate is around $1050... that is just a RIDICULOUS markup!!?! 

Indeed, putting in $50 it tells me I'll get 0.03465495 BTC... which is roughly USD$36. So, it seems you just got ripped off by Simplex. Such a shame they are being promoted by Mycelium.

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Ahhhh awesome... thanks for the heads up... I'll go do some "mining" and see what I come up with

Ok... good to know it is by design and not just a tiny wee bug

Is there a way to get the bot to output or save all bets into a text/XML file or maybe a debug mode where I can inspect the API calls and responses?  I've had a couple of instances where some weird stuff has happened while I have been away from the computer or sleeping (see the pic below)... unfortunately, it happened a long time before I noticed, so I couldn't look at the "live" bets to check values... and the site doesn't allow me to look that far back in history.

I've triple checked my script... and it ran for like 11,000 bets prior... and another 10 or 20K bets after the little "bump" just fine... with slow but steady upward progress...



I'm wondering if it is just a glitch in the "profit line" calculation, if the API was putting out "bad" data or maybe some network issue was causing problems...