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[Herbert]

BOUNTY RUN - Get 10 BTC to place bet #5000!
Right now (2012-12-08) there are 1477 bets placed. If you place Bet number 5000 you will get a bounty of 10 BTC - no strings attached!
Only condition: The bet must be valid (i.e. not a refund). In case Bet 5000 is a refunded one due to any reason, the next valid bet will get the bounty!
The bounty will be paid to the payout address of the player placing the bet. The bet number is the first number in the Bet log. Both single- and multiplayer bets can win. Note that the bounty will not be paid automatically, so please allow for some hours until you get your bounty in case i sleep, am offline etc. 

[Herbert]

Invitation sessions are back!

On your player's dashboard you will find a new button "Start Invite Session". Click it to start an invitation multiplayer session. The new session will start in waiting mode and display an invitation link to share - Whoever gets to click this link will join your session!

Another small change is also live:
The "Start Multiplayer" link will now change to "Join multiplayer" when another player started a multiplayer session. This should make it a bit easier to have a multiplayer session as you immediately see when one is started...

PS:
Bet count is still low at around 1600, so still some more to go to claim the bounty!

[ingrownpocket]

I won!

http://bitbattle.me/bet/5000/

Create an account at https://coinad.com and I'll offer you free advertising for life

Whoever want to see my awesome stats: http://bitbattle.me/player/9bea43bff985482bbffa1302bc1de65a/

[ingrownpocket]

Some things you may want to change/improve:

• "Running sessions" -> Once a session is closed, remove it from the list.
• Show the lucky number in the list (main page and user page)
• Once the session has >100 bets it starts to get slow, and after 200 bets it really gets slow
• Show the total bets and payout in the user page, so we can see the net profit
• API for betting bots, in SatoshiDice the bots can see if the user won the bet or not with the returning txid, it would be nice for you to have something similar with using API, or create an option to send a callback for a given page once the lucky number is calculated.
• Some bets did it after the session had closed (Eg. http://bitbattle.me/game/38435746aa2d4c79b2f1afaebe3ea2cd/)

[ingrownpocket]

It was really fun to see my bets going through and my balance going up and down.

I'm sure your site will have great success  

[Herbert]

I won!

http://bitbattle.me/bet/5000/

Create an account at https://coinad.com and I'll offer you free advertising for life

Whoever want to see my awesome stats: http://bitbattle.me/player/9bea43bff985482bbffa1302bc1de65a/

Gratulations! You put some stress to my system which is exactly what a wanted to see :-) Bounty has been paid (txID 78b276cac6b7f086dc25707d4e71269131a9b29329a87c0524ee6b287b44c1be).

[ingrownpocket]

I won!

http://bitbattle.me/bet/5000/

Create an account at https://coinad.com and I'll offer you free advertising for life

Whoever want to see my awesome stats: http://bitbattle.me/player/9bea43bff985482bbffa1302bc1de65a/

Gratulations! You put some stress to my system which is exactly what a wanted to see :-) Bounty has been paid (txID 78b276cac6b7f086dc25707d4e71269131a9b29329a87c0524ee6b287b44c1be).

Thank you   

[Herbert]

I won!

http://bitbattle.me/bet/5000/

Create an account at https://coinad.com and I'll offer you free advertising for life

Whoever want to see my awesome stats: http://bitbattle.me/player/9bea43bff985482bbffa1302bc1de65a/

I'll get back to you with the advertising 

"Running sessions" -> Once a session is closed, remove it from the list.

Well, it should already do that. Do you mean the running sessions on the front page or on the player dashboard?

Show the lucky number in the list (main page and user page)

Yep, sounds good!

Once the session has >100 bets it starts to get slow, and after 200 bets it really gets slow

What exactly got slow? The website updates or the processing of the incoming transactions? I could limit the number of bets that can be placed within one session - When the limit is reached the session gets closed and paid out. As you proofed a script/bot can easily create hundres of bets per session which is not really considered in the UI...

Show the total bets and payout in the user page, so we can see the net profit

Also good idea!

API for betting bots, in SatoshiDice the bots can see if the user won the bet or not with the returning txid, it would be nice for you to have something similar with using API, or create an option to send a callback for a given page once the lucky number is calculated.

Yeah, betting API is on my TODO-List, but somewhere with lower priority. I think it could be fun to have bots bitbattle each other in multiplayer mode  But this will take a lot of thinking and also improvemnt of the multiplayer sessions...

Some bets did it after the session had closed (Eg. http://bitbattle.me/game/38435746aa2d4c79b2f1afaebe3ea2cd/)

This is only a display problem - closing, payout and last bet all happened in the same second, and the sorting of session events is done via timestamp which has a resolution of only one second. Definitely also have to change this :-)

Also the payment engine had some trouble, you probably noticed that some payments were in state "pending" for several minutes. I also will have a look there what was the problem.

Thank you for your feedback, and i hope you come back soon with a few thousand more bets (maybe with some higher stake?) 

[ingrownpocket]

"Running sessions" -> Once a session is closed, remove it from the list.

Well, it should already do that. Do you mean the running sessions on the front page or on the player dashboard?

Both.

Once the session has >100 bets it starts to get slow, and after 200 bets it really gets slow

What exactly got slow? The website updates or the processing of the incoming transactions? I could limit the number of bets that can be placed within one session - When the limit is reached the session gets closed and paid out. As you proofed a script/bot can easily create hundres of bets per session which is not really considered in the UI...

Yes, the bet processing gets really slow when the sessions has more than 200-300 bets. Maybe the limit should be 200 or 150 bets per session.

Some bets did it after the session had closed (Eg. http://bitbattle.me/game/38435746aa2d4c79b2f1afaebe3ea2cd/)

This is only a display problem - closing, payout and last bet all happened in the same second, and the sorting of session events is done via timestamp which has a resolution of only one second. Definitely also have to change this :-)

Also the payment engine had some trouble, you probably noticed that some payments were in state "pending" for several minutes. I also will have a look there what was the problem.

Yep, some payments were with "pending" state for several minutes.

Thank you for your feedback, and i hope you come back soon with a few thousand more bets (maybe with some higher stake?)  

I had a really bad experience with SD when I started playing with a higher stake  

[Herbert]

Hah, you managed to screw the stats also: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/lucky_numbers/
As you always placed multiple bets in one transaction and for the graph i take the lucky numbers of the last 1000 bets there are a lot of bets with the same lucky number, resulting in a graph that seems to contain much less dots than before :-)

[Herbert]

Somehow the wallet got corrupted, resulting in most part of the balance being unspendable 
Right now restarting bitcoind with -rescan option - let's see if all comes back again...

[Herbert]

Somehow the wallet got corrupted, resulting in most part of the balance being unspendable 
Right now restarting bitcoind with -rescan option - let's see if all comes back again...

The rescan seems to have helped. To be sure all is fine I did a more or less complete exchange of the hot wallet - Transferred all funds to my local wallet and back again to the hot wallet - Went through without a problem.

The pending payments also have catched up already - So you can roll again :-)

[Herbert]

Launched some updates today:

• The lucky number is now displayed in the session log
• The number of bets per session is now limited to prevent huge sessions like Carlos produced ;-).
• When a game is closed the reason for closing is displayed (bet limit reached, time limit reached etc.)
• Fix: Pending Payment issue caused by huge sessions
• Fix: Refunds in multiplayer sessions caused an internal error and were stuck
• Fix: After a bet is rejected due to insufficient wallet balance you had to open/close a multiplayer session in order to be able to bet again

Slim was playing cat and mouse with my hot wallet the last 2 days, repeatedly causing the site to go into "Wallet depleted" mode. I need to rework the strategy here a bit while still making sure not to accept any bet that could not be paid from the hot wallet...

[IXIslimIXI]

Launched some updates today:

• The lucky number is now displayed in the session log
• The number of bets per session is now limited to prevent huge sessions like Carlos produced ;-).
• When a game is closed the reason for closing is displayed (bet limit reached, time limit reached etc.)
• Fix: Pending Payment issue caused by huge sessions
• Fix: Refunds in multiplayer sessions caused an internal error and were stuck
• Fix: After a bet is rejected due to insufficient wallet balance you had to open/close a multiplayer session in order to be able to bet again

Slim was playing cat and mouse with my hot wallet the last 2 days, repeatedly causing the site to go into "Wallet depleted" mode. I need to rework the strategy here a bit while still making sure not to accept any bet that could not be paid from the hot wallet...

The play today was a lot smoother. I emailed you about the only issue I noticed today which was, session would not close by timeout until you actually opened the session. This probably won't be an issue for most because I imagine they stay in session while playing. However, I like to stay on my dashboard while playing so, for people like me, this will happen. It doesn't necessarily make much of a difference to keep the session open as far as I'm concerned but, wanted to alert you.

To everyone else... This game is really great. If you used to be a fan of SD but hate the lag, lost bets, and spam getting in the way, this is the perfect place. You are in a session all by your lonesome and it is EXTREMELY fast.

[Herbert]

The play today was a lot smoother. I emailed you about the only issue I noticed today which was, session would not close by timeout until you actually opened the session. This probably won't be an issue for most because I imagine they stay in session while playing. However, I like to stay on my dashboard while playing so, for people like me, this will happen. It doesn't necessarily make much of a difference to keep the session open as far as I'm concerned but, wanted to alert you.

I'll check out the problem with the session closing today. This happened already once when the task scheduler had a hickup and did not work on new tasks, but this time it seems something different...

To everyone else... This game is really great. If you used to be a fan of SD but hate the lag, lost bets, and spam getting in the way, this is the perfect place. You are in a session all by your lonesome and it is EXTREMELY fast.

Thanks for your feedback Slim :-)
Btw, you are now by far leading the payout charts, you are close to hit the 1000 BTC mark: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/payout/
But the title for "most active player" is still with Carlos: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/active/


Edit:
Session closing fixed. What a stupid bug - Someone please tell me to stop coding in the middle of the night...

[IXIslimIXI]

Stop coding in the middle of the night.

[IXIslimIXI]

The play today was a lot smoother. I emailed you about the only issue I noticed today which was, session would not close by timeout until you actually opened the session. This probably won't be an issue for most because I imagine they stay in session while playing. However, I like to stay on my dashboard while playing so, for people like me, this will happen. It doesn't necessarily make much of a difference to keep the session open as far as I'm concerned but, wanted to alert you.

I'll check out the problem with the session closing today. This happened already once when the task scheduler had a hickup and did not work on new tasks, but this time it seems something different...

To everyone else... This game is really great. If you used to be a fan of SD but hate the lag, lost bets, and spam getting in the way, this is the perfect place. You are in a session all by your lonesome and it is EXTREMELY fast.

Thanks for your feedback Slim :-)
Btw, you are now by far leading the payout charts, you are close to hit the 1000 BTC mark: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/payout/
But the title for "most active player" is still with Carlos: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/active/


Edit:
Session closing fixed. What a stupid bug - Someone please tell me to stop coding in the middle of the night...

And what is my bounty for 1000btc?
I need about 30btc to cover my losses! lol

[IXIslimIXI]

The play today was a lot smoother. I emailed you about the only issue I noticed today which was, session would not close by timeout until you actually opened the session. This probably won't be an issue for most because I imagine they stay in session while playing. However, I like to stay on my dashboard while playing so, for people like me, this will happen. It doesn't necessarily make much of a difference to keep the session open as far as I'm concerned but, wanted to alert you.

I'll check out the problem with the session closing today. This happened already once when the task scheduler had a hickup and did not work on new tasks, but this time it seems something different...

To everyone else... This game is really great. If you used to be a fan of SD but hate the lag, lost bets, and spam getting in the way, this is the perfect place. You are in a session all by your lonesome and it is EXTREMELY fast.

Thanks for your feedback Slim :-)
Btw, you are now by far leading the payout charts, you are close to hit the 1000 BTC mark: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/payout/
But the title for "most active player" is still with Carlos: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/active/


Edit:
Session closing fixed. What a stupid bug - Someone please tell me to stop coding in the middle of the night...

And what is my bounty for 1000btc?
I need about 30btc to cover my losses! lol

UPDATE: Make that 50btc. lmao

[Herbert]

The play today was a lot smoother. I emailed you about the only issue I noticed today which was, session would not close by timeout until you actually opened the session. This probably won't be an issue for most because I imagine they stay in session while playing. However, I like to stay on my dashboard while playing so, for people like me, this will happen. It doesn't necessarily make much of a difference to keep the session open as far as I'm concerned but, wanted to alert you.

I'll check out the problem with the session closing today. This happened already once when the task scheduler had a hickup and did not work on new tasks, but this time it seems something different...

To everyone else... This game is really great. If you used to be a fan of SD but hate the lag, lost bets, and spam getting in the way, this is the perfect place. You are in a session all by your lonesome and it is EXTREMELY fast.

Thanks for your feedback Slim :-)
Btw, you are now by far leading the payout charts, you are close to hit the 1000 BTC mark: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/payout/
But the title for "most active player" is still with Carlos: http://bitbattle.me/statistics/active/


Edit:
Session closing fixed. What a stupid bug - Someone please tell me to stop coding in the middle of the night...

And what is my bounty for 1000btc?
I need about 30btc to cover my losses! lol

UPDATE: Make that 50btc. lmao

No worries, I'll setup another bounty as soon as I have the payment engine update live to give it some stress testing :-)

[AvL42]

Is there a way to keep a session of single-player bets open for more than about a minute? I'm talking about hours or even a day...

During a minute, I hardly get to play more than a single bet, and there's practically no saving on blockchain bloat and miner-fees if I get each win paid out "almost immediately" and thus separately.