BitMillions.com- More than ฿ 1,400 in Prizes - Play with only ฿ 0.01!

[🏰 TradeFortress 🏰]

If these guys were planning to run a scam, I doubt they would have left such large amounts in the prize pools when they dropped the price of a ticket by a factor of 10.  They could quite justifiably have reduced each prize pool by a factor of 10, but decided not to.

Thanks dooglus, that is exactly the reason why we chose to keep the pools as the were, we wanted to be true to our word.

We didn't work for 6 months of working 10 hours a day (including weekends ) + investing over $50K ( 1300 BTC in Pools, plus Programming, plus Design, etc ) for nothing. We are here for the long run.

That is why I think its important for the Bitcoin Community to build successful businesses, operators of the businesses that do not make money eventually either close their doors or worst yet, run aways. Operators of profitable businesses that are making money, like to keep their businesses running as long as possible.

Our best interest is that users like our game and keeps playing it, that is how we make money so we can to keep developing new sites, games, applications for more devices, etc... to grown the Bitcoin economy.

In my opinion, that is the only possible way that this amazing new currency can succeed.

You spent 1,800 hours on this?

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[dooglus]

Yeah... this site is terribly messed up.... I tried and tried to input the transaction IDs for .025 btc I sent just trying the site out and was UNABLE to get anything about any tickets

There's only ever been one transaction to the bitmillions address that starts with 0.025:



Here's the ticket.  Interesting that the address it shows (17YHN...) was the 11th input. It's normal for sites to use the first input as the 'sending address'.

[ShaTwo]

You spent 1,800 hours on this?

I may take some days off and browse Reddit & BitcoinTalk from time to time in the middle So not sure the exact number of hours...
Most of the work you can not see it, since is on the Backend, also we tested the system for several weeks before launching.

TradeFortress, I use to be faster when I was younger

[ShaTwo]

PMd the asked for information and results of clearing cache.

Just answered, ticket was received correctly ( don't like to give TxID for user privacy )... problems seems to be related with issues with IE9.

If somebody else is using Internet Explorer 9, could you please tell me if you can see the site correctly?

[NoobMiner]

Ok... ShaTwo got back to me VERY quickly after PM here after all... I was a bit tilted by the non-functionality I encountered so...

Anyway, it appears that IE9 may be the culprit, not even working after dumping cache.  At ShaTwo's suggestion I tried Chrome (which I never use) and the site IS indeed working as advertised and I WAS able to view my 'tickets' (though they lost...   ).  In Chrome the site looks pretty good and has a nice feel to it.  Cheers guys.  Seems I'm a 'bug locator' ...  
I may very well try the site out again.

[Aahzman]

My questions about the tickets have been answered.  I maintain that twitter, facebook, etc are no way to provide customer support.  A contact form is acceptable or an email address and both of these should be on the site.  Charly, I think you are not prepared for any kind of criticism and this reflects very badly on you.

Dave, I take your criticism and we will incorporate additional contact methods on the page.

We will have:

- Facebook
- Twitter
- Google+
- BitcoinTalk
- IRC Channel on Freenode
- Contact Form

Any other suggestion?

um..let's see..

Semaphore (flag signals)
Native American Smoke Signals
That flashing-light-thingy signalling method naval ships use
Telegraph/Morse Code
Personal landline and mobile telephone numbers for all Sha Two employees
Telephone #'s for all Sha Two employees families (in case you aren't answering your own phones)
Perhaps some sort of web-accessible device mounted on each Sha Two employee, allowing customers to send minor electrical shocks when they have a problem or question
Home addresses for all Sha Two employees so customers can come bang on your door in the middle of the night yelling "WHARZ MUH TICKETZES?!?"

I think that covers pretty much every contact method... :-D

 

[Aahzman]

IE9 may be the culprit

Well, there's yer trouble, right there. IE9 is the coding output of Satan. I'd rather use Safari and be bottle fed the sites that Steve Jobs' ghost says I should look at, rather than surf the web with the pile of steaming bear shit that is IE.

Web browsing with IE is like swimming naked in the sewer. You might get where you want to go, eventually, but god only knows the diseases and infections you'll pick up along the way.

Friends don't let friends use IE.

[NoobMiner]

Nothing wrong with IE IF you're smart enough and can be bothered to take your security seriously.

[dooglus]

Nothing wrong with IE

take your security seriously.

Both in the same sentence! 

[NoobMiner]

Internet memes and certain beliefs to the contrary it IS possible to make security under IE nearly as tight as any other browser, you just have to research the issues, keep up-to-date and use the proper settings and security programs.  It's really NOT that difficult.

[ShaTwo]

Even when I don't really like IE, still accounts for 29% of the whole internet users ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201301-201302-bar )

Could somebody with IE can please confirm that the site ( https://bitmillions.com ) works fine on IE?

[NoobMiner]

Even when I don't really like IE, still accounts for 29% of the whole internet users ( http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-monthly-201301-201302-bar )

Could somebody with IE can please confirm that the site ( https://bitmillions.com ) works fine on IE?

Still not working in IE9 for me.

[ShaTwo]

Still not working in IE9 for me.

So weir, in my IE9 works just fine... that why I am trying to see if more people have the same problem... anybody with IE9 around? What about iE8?

[payb.tc]

What about iE8?

ie gives the following (and only the following):

a beige page
a small black bar at the top
a green bar at the top
a red rectangle in the green bar
text above red rectangle: Total bitcoin Prizes WIN THE JACKPOT WITH ONLY ฿ 0.01!!


...*nothing* else on the page other than as described above

[NoobMiner]

What about iE8?

ie gives the following (and only the following):

a beige page
a small black bar at the top
a green bar at the top
a red rectangle in the green bar
text above red rectangle: Total bitcoin Prizes WIN THE JACKPOT WITH ONLY ฿ 0.01!!


...*nothing* else on the page other than as described above

There you go... similar to what it does for me... not exactly but similar.  I still see the charts of latest draws/tickets and etc... but no latest numbers at the top left just empty 'dots' and the red box for Total Bitcoin prizes is blank, and as last night and I have to assume is still the same, putting a tx id in the search box doesn't work (not sure if this is till true because I haven't played since last night).... as I said, works like a champ in Chrome... same computer.

[dooglus]

http://netrenderer.com/ claims to show you how any page renders in lots of different versions of IE.  I can't get it to render bitmillions.com at all though.

[ShaTwo]

http://netrenderer.com/ claims to show you how any page renders in lots of different versions of IE.  I can't get it to render bitmillions.com at all though.

Not sure that is very reliable, I am trying to use http://browsershots.org/https://bitmillions.com/# and http://browsera.com to see if I can find the problem.

Thanks so much for everybody's help!!

[ShaTwo]

I think we got the issue with IE8, IE9 & IE10 resolved. Thanks for everybody who helped us find out about the issue.

[ShaTwo]

Hello! Amazing first month at BitMillions.com! Thanks to everybody who trusted us with your bets!

Very good +EV Pools #2 & #3 right now.

Pool # 4 - BTC 1,198.6274
Pool # 3 - BTC 96.3325
Pool # 2 - BTC 1.0708

Playing just BTC 0.01 you could hit the JackPot and win up to BTC 1,200!
With a 50% pool retain, a bet of BTC 0.01 ( $0.34.- ) could make you BTC 600 ( $20,400.- )!

Visit https://bitmillions.com and give it a try!

[dooglus]

Pool # 4 - BTC 1,198.6274
Pool # 3 - BTC 96.3325
Pool # 2 - BTC 1.0708

Playing just BTC 0.01 you could hit the JackPot and win up to BTC 1.200!
With a 50% pool retain, a bet of BTC 0.01 ( $0.34.- ) could make you BTC 600 ( $20.400.- )!

You keep switching what you mean by '.' in a number.

In "1,198.6274" it's a decimal point.
Then in "win up to BTC 1.200" it's indicating 1000's.
Then you switch back to using it as a decimal point in "a bet of BTC 0.01"
and then you switch again, here using it as both at the same time! "$20.400.-"

I think you need to make your mind up about what '.' means to you...