ApopheniaBTC - Bet and solve the challenges to win BTC.

[Tritonio]

You mean the mustache? There is no beard. :-D

I should remind people that you can view the full version of a solved picture by clicking on the thumbnail to open the picture dialog and then clicking on the big picture to alternate between the state the picture was when it was solved, and the final (perfectly clear) state of the picture.

[nocube]

You mean the mustache? There is no beard. :-D

No, I mean Meg Ryan's beard.

j/k. I've mixed up the words.

[Tritonio]

The picture without a hint is now giving 8+ times the (fixed) bet.


All wrong answers given are understandable and some are quite on point but none is correct (obviously). :-)

[haitispaceagency]

The picture without a hint is now giving 8+ times the (fixed) bet.


All wrong answers given are understandable and some are quite on point but none is correct (obviously). :-)

i've been asking all my friends what they think it is and its always the already guessed answers lol.

[haitispaceagency]

After how many hours does it clear up again? Or is that insider infor

[Tritonio]

Images are updated every 10 minutes. Specifically I update 3 images every 5 minutes and there are usually 6 images on the site. (solved images are also "updated" even though this is useless and I might exclude them from the update rotation in the future)

The page also automatically refreshes every 10 minutes so in theory you should be looking at different, more clear, pictures every time the page auto-refreshes. Now each image improves at a different rate though.

Each image take 5 days to expire and they are reach their fully clear version when 5*90%=4.5 days have passed. The last 0.5 day will pass with the image being completely clear. (the 5 days expiration is configurable per image so it might change for some images) So if an image is uploaded with a 10 day duration to expire, it will still improve every 10 minutes but it will be improving in much smaller steps.

[Boelens]

That one picture is so hard, with the 0.055 pot D:. I've guessed hallway, but it was wrong. I just can't figure it out :/. I really like the idea of this site by the way! I had a simliar idea recently but with quizzes.

[Tritonio]

I really like the idea of this site by the way!

If you are going to tell any friends about it, don't forget to use your referral code. :-) I haven't seen a single bet from someone that came to the site via a referral.

[Boelens]

I really like the idea of this site by the way!

If you are going to tell any friends about it, don't forget to use your referral code. :-) I haven't seen a single bet from someone that came to the site via a referral.

Yeah, I did tell some but none of them really have BTC so yeah =P. I'll try to refer some people though, it's a neat site and it helps me too.

[Mabsark]

What happens if 2 people get the answer right at the same time?

[Tritonio]

Define "same time". 

Here is the procedure:

The most important thing is when the bet was confirmed. 1 confirmation is enough btw. Now if two bets, both correct, are confirmed in the same block then the one that got into my database first gets checked first. The timestamps have a precision up to 1 second so if two people answer at the very same second AND their transactions get confirmed in the same block, then I don't know which one will be checked first. It's up to SQL to decide. :-P Does anyone really care about that case though? If it ever becomes an issue then I guess I'll just switch to millisecond precision.

[haitispaceagency]

m8, please give a hint like need title or something on https://apopheniabtc.com/processed/3b271675941e19ac7f0e939207f328329a2e45bada00b9121429fe674dfb8f36

[haitispaceagency]

I think i bet entirely too much on one. did i read that you'd send back the difference in amount if that happened or no?

[Tritonio]

m8, please give a hint like need title or something on https://apopheniabtc.com/processed/3b271675941e19ac7f0e939207f328329a2e45bada00b9121429fe674dfb8f36

IMO It would be unfair to place a hint on it right now. Some users will see it first and might be able to solve it while other users are sleeping and have already bet even though they had no hint. If I was a player I would expect the rules for the picture to stay the same throughout it's time. If your complaint is generally about pictures without a hint then I shall consider it though. I should do a vote or something about this.

I think i bet entirely too much on one. did i read that you'd send back the difference in amount if that happened or no?

Yes if you bet more you are getting the extra back minus 0.001 or 0.0005 (I don't remember the exact amount right now). You may PM me (or post publicly if you don't mind) the address you paid to if you want me to check up on it though.

[Tritonio]

Also someone has set his referral address to an address starting with 1dice. If this is a SatoshiDice address then I really don't understand what he is trying to accomplish by sending referral earnings to that. The winnings (if any) will just bounce back to Apopheniabtc. The site might also think that the earned money is overpaid by someone user and try to send him back the difference. So in the end either the site or some random user will take the winnings.

In the past someone had also used a 1dice address as payback and then, probably on purpose, paid to that address after having already solved the picture from another address. So the site sent the bet back to that dice address. Again I don't understand what's the purpose of this. :-)

Anyway I am just trying to warn anyone who tries this that he/she might loose money this way.

[haitispaceagency]

I think i bet entirely too much on one. did i read that you'd send back the difference in amount if that happened or no?

Yes if you bet more you are getting the extra back minus 0.001 or 0.0005 (I don't remember the exact amount right now). You may PM me (or post publicly if you don't mind) the address you paid to if you want me to check up on it though.

90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5

[Tritonio]

90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5

According to https://blockchain.info/tx/90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5 you sent 0.00625 BTC to 1CX1gnDn7DTt9okfHYkFbz7jY5yjJTou3C which is a betting address for the picture that hasn't got a hint which indeed needed 0.00625 BTC per bet.

Maybe you wanted to bet on another picture? I can try, this once, and move your bet to another picture if you want, since it is quite obvious that the answer has no connection whatsoever to the picture you placed the bet on. :-)

(I'm going to sleep in a while so I can't guarantee that I'll manage to move the bet today)

[haitispaceagency]

90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5

According to https://blockchain.info/tx/90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5 you sent 0.00625 BTC to 1CX1gnDn7DTt9okfHYkFbz7jY5yjJTou3C which is a betting address for the picture that hasn't got a hint which indeed needed 0.00625 BTC per bet.

Maybe you wanted to bet on another picture? I can try, this once, and move your bet to another picture if you want, since it is quite obvious that the answer has no connection whatsoever to the picture you placed the bet on. :-)

(I'm going to sleep in a while so I can't guarantee that I'll manage to move the bet today)

hmmm. in my wallet (electrum) its saying I sent .01125

[Tritonio]

That's a big difference. You might want to report this to the developers of Electrum if you are sure.

Those two agree that you've sent 0.00625 BTC:
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5
https://blockchain.info/tx/90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5

[haitispaceagency]

That's a big difference. You might want to report this to the developers of Electrum if you are sure.

Those two agree that you've sent 0.00625 BTC:
http://blockexplorer.com/tx/90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5
https://blockchain.info/tx/90cfa8c36b6a5fd901e0521e1ae664449ba383678d1c645a5cb147e902667ca5

's weird, if you got just .00625 from that transaction ID then thats what must've been sent out. I think its just a display error and it didn't actually send that much.