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[papadoca]

Nice thing you got there.
question: how long it takes for a withdraw to get processed?
currently joined & playing

doca

[giantdragon]

question: how long it takes for a withdraw to get processed?

About 1 second for the instant withdrawals and 24 hours for the standard.

[giantdragon]

Some users had problems with "content-type" of the API responses. Now API will return a header "Content-Type: application/json".

[giantdragon]

Some user pointed me that using 24-bit number for determining number of the winning ticket is not enough and can have some skewness if the raffle have very large number of tickets (>1M). To improve quality of the RNG, I have increased length to 28 bits.

From January 15, 2013, 01:30 UTC following function will be used to determine the winner:

Code:

function getWinningTicket($nonce, $blockHash, $ticketsTotal)
{
    $hash = hash('sha256', $nonce . $blockHash);
    
    $randHex = substr($hash, strlen($hash) - 7, 7);
    $randDec = base_convert($randHex, 16, 10);
    
    return ($randDec % $ticketsTotal) + 1;
}

[giantdragon]

Now you can filter raffles by remaining bet's amount. See in the dropdown menu "Prize value...".

Also we have enabled the script which will delete empty raffles older than 5 minutes.

[giantdragon]

I detected why response time worsened recently - bots are polling raffle history list too frequently. Therefore we have set 5 sec limit between attempts.

[giantdragon]

We have archived finished raffles older than 7 days. You must notice considerable performance boost!

[giantdragon]

Now you can group transaction history by type!

To increase overall Peerbet performance I have decided to keep history only for the raffles which have finished within last day. This does not affect transaction history. We are receiving about 10K bets daily and this number steadily increases, therefore without table cleanup it would produce many gigabytes of data per month. I think Peerbet will move towards more decentralization - complete history for each user can be stored locally in the embedded DB, without generating excessive load on the central server. I hope it will be implemented in the Android app we want to release in the not distant future, as well as desktop apps.

[giantdragon]

Some bot requested API method "getraffleinfo" too frequently (seems that its creator just put query into infinite loop) that caused server overload. I have set 1 sec limit between attempts for this method.

[giantdragon]

We have just reached 250,000 games played!

[giantdragon]

Many updates have been made:

1. Implemented private message system.
2. Fixed "Use as template" button's bug, field "Buy tickets" will be automatically filled according to the number of tickets you have bought in the template raffle.
3. Fixed bug in the stats which counted refunds in the turnout.
4. API method "getraffleinfo" extended with the field "winning_ticket" which represent number of the winning ticket (available only for completed raffles).

[constitution]

Cool, this is a great idea.

[ingrownpocket]

There's this guy there, giving away free satoshis.
Quite useful to have some fun playing the 'low bet games'.

I was able to turn 565 satoshis into 10000. Twice.
Too bad I can't do that with actual bitcoins (x.00).

[giantdragon]

I was able to turn 565 satoshis into 10000. Twice.
Too bad I can't do that with actual bitcoins (x.00).

Winning odds don't depend from the bet amount, you were just out of luck!

[ingrownpocket]

I was able to turn 565 satoshis into 10000. Twice.
Too bad I can't do that with actual bitcoins (x.00).

Winning odds don't depend from the bet amount, you were just out of luck!

Sherlock 

[giantdragon]

Few days ago I have started learning Android programming and don't feel it is difficult. Hope Peerbet app will be ready soon!

[dree12]

Can I request the following features?

1. Top donators (lists the people who have donated the most to Peerbet)
2. Top net winners (lists the people who have netted the most profit)
3. Top players (lists the people who have earned the most (Won total))
4. Leaderboard opt-out (allows a player to opt out of the leaderboard)

[giantdragon]

Alignment please!

Spent total:         0.00005200 BTC
Won total:           0.00001110 BTC

Deposits total:      0.10000000 BTC
Coupons total:      0.00000000 BTC
Withdrawals total: 0.00000000 BTC

Net profit total:   -0.00004090 BTC
Net profit today:  -0.00004090 BTC


Thanks 

Done!

[giantdragon]

Can I request the following features?

1. Top donators (lists the people who have donated the most to Peerbet)
2. Top net winners (lists the people who have netted the most profit)
3. Top players (lists the people who have earned the most (Won total))
4. Leaderboard opt-out (allows a player to opt out of the leaderboard)

Just tried to execute test query, it took 65 seconds and will be even longer as transactions table continuously grows. So I think leader board has little sense as most of the users will just close browser's tab before the page will be loaded.

P.S. Donators list is different story, it can be fetched almost instantly and I will enable it when will run donation campaign (at first I need to attract more users that this campaign be successful).

[dree12]

Can I request the following features?

1. Top donators (lists the people who have donated the most to Peerbet)
2. Top net winners (lists the people who have netted the most profit)
3. Top players (lists the people who have earned the most (Won total))
4. Leaderboard opt-out (allows a player to opt out of the leaderboard)

Just tried to execute test query, it took 65 seconds and will be even longer as transactions table continuously grows. So I think leader board has little sense as most of the users will just close browser's tab before the page will be loaded.

P.S. Donators list is different story, it can be fetched almost instantly and I will enable it when will run donation campaign (at first I need to attract more users that this campaign be successful).

Isn't this information already stored in the profile though?

Spent total:    0.00000000 BTC
Won total:    0.00000000 BTC (#3)
Deposits total:    0.00000000 BTC
Coupons total:    0.00000000 BTC
Withdrawals total:    0.00000000 BTC
Net profit total:    0.00000000 BTC (#2)
Net profit today:    0.00000000 BTC

If it isn't, why not? Raffles can't be revoked after they're done, so couldn't this info be put into the user table? That would save CPU power when people are looking at their own profile too.