You need to escrow the funds. As you are newbie people may not be able to trust you.
The contest has a time for end (1 week, 1 month ecc) ?
We were planning for April 8th being the deadline however if we don't find a particular design we like, we will extend the contest out a bit longer.
Just a suggestion : You can message me and get signatures for all ranks at cheap price and good looking ones, inform me if so
Use escrow if you want to keep the contest running.
Rest assure, I believe Dabs himself will be escrowing the prize money as Dabs is the owner of this sites too which you can check on this thread here
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1005292there are even vouches from lightlord and Marcotheminer there
EDIT :
Hi all. Sorry for being late to my own party. I think that's the trend anyway.
It's sort of inspired by craps, by traditional dice, and by sic bo, all of which are casino dice games. But, it's more "digital", where it's a little bit easier to verify 64 sided dice, rather than 6 sided cube dice. The 15 seconds was patterned after playing in "real" brick and mortar casinos (definition of real is subject to interpretation, but that's another topic) as well as online ones, and trying to strike a balance between too quick (5-8 seconds for some online poker), and too long (2 minutes for turn based games), also considering that there is only one board, and one dice roll for everyone playing.
A little bit of history: this was thought of some time ago, last quarter of last year. (You can whois the domain.)
I asked some friends to think of the name based on the concept (BayAreaCoins), some math experts (organofcorti) to do some number crunching for me, and a bunch more friends to try and break it in the semi-closed beta a couple weeks ago. (Thank you dooglus for your input.)
I asked a trusted friend to come on board (bitclever) and hired a local developer (ZypheronBits) to make this game a reality.
It's sort of PvP in that it is crowd-funded.
Have fun! Thank you for all your feedback!
Even if the prize is not escrowed, I believe Dabs wont ruin his reputation here for such small amount of
BTC