[P50POT] a multi-player mathematical game, played with bitcoin

[pfifty]

Hi,

Announcing https://p50pot.com - a multi-player simple mathematical game, played with bitcoins.

This is not a gambling game as there is no randomization involved in this game. Winners are determined deterministically based on the game's rules.

You can still play randomly for fun, however employing a strategy is better on the average. Just keep in mind that there could be countermeasures for any strategy you use.

Bots are welcomed. PM me for API details.

[leen93]

nice game! just sad nobody is playing otherwise i would do too 

[pfifty]

nice game! just sad nobody is playing otherwise i would do too 

Thanks. There is definitely traffic, the game is on!

[leen93]

it's  wrong
https://p50pot.com/current.html

profit should go to the 16... address right ?
the last one is not ordered right

[nikona]

Looks like a nice concept, but just a suggestion, might be a good idea to start a few free rounds, just to get people to get a hang of it. Also it seems the main requirement is it requires people on the site to play.

And I have a question about the fees system. It says 1 mbtc every 10 participants. So how is fees taken, say if 4 people play a round, and 6 play the second ? So is 0.0001 taken from each by default ?

[pfifty]

it's  wrong
https://p50pot.com/current.html

profit should go to the 16... address right ?

The middle tx wins, and sorting is by tx id and not address.

Round is done now. Are you 16zEPsWNbKKKStWZHrxQMhhvMb8Lkg3VCp? If you had sent more than 0.00501000 you had a good chance of collecting the win.

[leen93]

thanks for the info! now i got the game
lost a lot because i understood it wrong but at least now i get it 

[pfifty]

are you scamming me?  

Sorting is done by transaction id and not by amount sent. Sorry if that is not obvious. If I was sorting by amounts, then there could be multiple winner and I did not want that.

Please, do look at all the previous rounds, all of them follow the same rule. This is certainly not a scam, very much on the contrary actually. The fee I'm collecting is a fraction of the hosting costs

And thanks for trying this out!

[Snorek]

I was interested at first but  then I read this : "Bots are welcome." So if this is purely mathematical game and bots are allowed why humans (unless they are some genius level mathematics here) want to play this game. I am not a calculator after all.

[leen93]

I was interested at first but  then I read this : "Bots are welcome." So if this is purely mathematical game and bots are allowed why humans (unless they are some genius level mathematics here) want to play this game. I am not a calculator after all.

you are placed by tx id which you cannot determine beforehand so it's still kinda lucky  and there is a fee too and i doubt this game will continue to be active for long (although i wish, it's a nice idea), comparing it with other things which were only active for a while

[leen93]

018083e1f08eb4daa520...   1H7kJLJLGrxPJQrFbidGGUHP26brYKiy5L   0.00100000      
04ef798ef6f034d99476...   1MxWdT75qy9FygHQhQuzmUwjvPuFDpeCmn   0.00200000      
198dd8e7e1d27d847df7...   14ftZGCGecp8xm54cUK3o46pkbzy2iR9ss   0.00100000      
2f4619604c386f7f2284...   16zEPsWNbKKKStWZHrxQMhhvMb8Lkg3VCp   0.00759000      
7495ee66f021e92d81df...   1PrCwmhVYtSsQkYLAK5f1fdtTaYtLrMu2o   0.00200000   0.02559000   (Not final, round still in progress!)
97c46a54355ed698185e...   13kdpap6K6GxkCTkrRUiTBERcTmuKMEAFK   0.01300000   


aargh who sent the last transaction?  i had the profit

[pfifty]

I was interested at first but  then I read this : "Bots are welcome." So if this is purely mathematical game and bots are allowed why humans (unless they are some genius level mathematics here) want to play this game. I am not a calculator after all.

There is really no way to prevent bots from participating. However, and that's the beauty of it, since the game is very open-ended, even a bot can be tricked by a human player. Like the move that leen93 just did. If his tx would be collected to the block, he'd be looking at a nice profit.

[leen93]

yes, there is not that much to calculate because almost never you are the last one and next people will wagger what they think is the best regarding their bet
a bot cannot beat it and it's fair since the same rules count for everyone
anyways my recent deposit (really small) doesn't show up
and is it max 100 mbtc per address/per person or per transaction id?

[pfifty]

yes, there is not that much to calculate because almost never you are the last one and next people will wagger what they think is the best regarding their bet
a bot cannot beat it and it's fair since the same rules count for everyone
anyways my recent deposit (really small) doesn't show up
and is it max 100 mbtc per address/per person or per transaction id?

Once the transaction reach my server it will be shown with minimal latency. I do not control network propagation time. Consider increasing the bitcoin network fee to get a faster deposit or to increase the chance of a deposit being collected to the current block. For example, the last round (#351179) had a few deposits which did not make it into the block. A bigger network fee would have helped there.

The max is 100mBTC per deposit. You can deposit as many times as you want per round, as long as each deposit is under 100mBTC. If you deposit more, you'd be refunded automatically.

[leen93]

when a block is created it takes 2 minutes before something changes on your website, can you change that?
this will cause many people to still make a deposit, waste mining fees etc.

[leen93]

what happens when you send from more addresses?

[pfifty]

when a block is created it takes 2 minutes before something changes on your website, can you change that?
this will cause many people to still make a deposit, waste mining fees etc.

This is good feedback. Thanks you! I will look into this later today.

[pfifty]

what happens when you send from more addresses?

Nothing special, use as many address as you'd like. Just keep in mind that prizes are sent back to the address which originated the deposit, so always use an address you control yourself (no web wallets).

[leen93]

when a block is created it takes 2 minutes before something changes on your website, can you change that?
this will cause many people to still make a deposit, waste mining fees etc.

This is good feedback. Thanks you! I will look into this later today.

ok thanks! for the rest the site looks perfect just sad from the max 100 mbtc  i love whales

[leen93]

what happens when you send from more addresses?

Nothing special, use as many address as you'd like. Just keep in mind that prizes are sent back to the address which originated the deposit, so always use an address you control yourself (no web wallets).

i mean when you send from more addresses in 1 tx id
i mean address A and B send 0.001 btc to address C in 1 transaction for example
this is what sometimes happens when you have more wallets and use for example blockchain.info