Just-Dice.com : Invest in 1% House Edge Dice Game

[MikkisJ]

The site is down?

[1713566594]

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[thy]

The site is down?

It's down from here to.

[dooglus]

The site is down?

It's down from here to.

I guess it's some kind of DDoS attack, but I don't know yet.

More when I have it.

[dooglus]

I guess it's some kind of DDoS attack, but I don't know yet.

More when I have it.

On top of that, bitcoind complained that its blockchain was corrupted and wants to rebuild it, so I'm letting it do that.

Does anyone have experience with DDoS mitigation?  Is cloudflare good?  If I use them, do they get access to all user accounts and so all user coins?

[willphase]

On top of that, bitcoind complained that its blockchain was corrupted and wants to rebuild it, so I'm letting it do that.

There appears to be a bug in bitcoin-qt - http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31380906

Does anyone have experience with DDoS mitigation?  Is cloudflare good?  If I use them, do they get access to all user accounts and so all user coins?

cloudflare are pretty trustworthy - e.g. they protect mtgox so if they wanted to go and steal people's bitcoins that would be a far easier way.  If you're really paranoid, have an authentication server that isn't protected by cloudflare that provides tokens to be used by the main cloudflare protected site.  You can perform all sensitive operations (such as withdraw funds) over this different server.

Will

[mechs]

I guess it's some kind of DDoS attack, but I don't know yet.

More when I have it.

On top of that, bitcoind complained that its blockchain was corrupted and wants to rebuild it, so I'm letting it do that.

Does anyone have experience with DDoS mitigation?  Is cloudflare good?  If I use them, do they get access to all user accounts and so all user coins?

If you want very fast servers and robust ddos, yo ahould try rackspace. http://www.rackspace.com/managed_hosting/services/security/ddosmitigation/
However, they are more expensive than cloudflare,

[Mitchell]

Cloudflare is just a DNS service provider (and works using their own DNS servers which catches all the requests, filters them, checks them and THEN send them to your webserver). It cannot see your files. I use them myself to decrease bandwidth and requests on my website.

[b!z]

On investment profits.

If the site is not making profit, is there a fee on investment loss?

[Rannasha]

On investment profits.

If the site is not making profit, is there a fee on investment loss?

No, the commission is only calculated on profits. You can suffer all the investment losses you want for free

[mechs]

Doog,
  You need to update the OP with the balance amounts.

[dooglus]

Doog,
  You need to update the OP with the balance amounts.

Of course I do...  I forget every week!

Will do that right now.

[dooglus]

Doog,
  You need to update the OP with the balance amounts.

Of course I do...  I forget every week!

Will do that right now.

I just noticed an issue with the lists I publish each week.  It's a list of all investor 'base' amounts over a certain threshold.

The 'base' amount is the amount upon which you are considered to have paid commission, such that you won't be re-charged on any amount below it.

So when you invest 10 BTC, your base is set to 10.  Then your investment grows up to 11 BTC.  At the end of the week we see that your investment is 1 BTC higher than your 'base', so charge you 10% of the 1 BTC difference, leaving you 10.90 BTC, and set your base to 10.90.

Next week you lose 1 BTC on your investment, leaving you with 9.90.  You're sick of the ups and downs, so you divest it all.  You divest 9.90, and we subtract 9.90 from your base, leaving it at 1.00.

This means that if you ever reinvest, you get 1 BTC's worth of profit commission-free (since you already paid commission on 1 BTC of profit, and we don't charge commission twice on the same profit).

However for the mean time, you're not really an investor.  You can 0 invested, but a 'base' of 1.

You'll be listed on the weekly report as having a base of 1.  So the weekly list shows too many investors.

I don't think it's a big deal, since the purpose of the list is to stop me hiding investors.  But I thought I should point out that it includes the base numbers for used-to-be investors who made a net loss.

[willphase]

This means that if you ever reinvest, you get 1 BTC's worth of profit commission-free (since you already paid commission on 1 BTC of profit, and we don't charge commission twice on the same profit).

There was some talk earlier in the thread about the value of just-dice accounts that had divested after a loss.  If someone was about to invest some bitcoin it would be worth buying one of these accounts to avoid paying commission fees for a while (depending on the current value of 'base').

Will

[dooglus]

This means that if you ever reinvest, you get 1 BTC's worth of profit commission-free (since you already paid commission on 1 BTC of profit, and we don't charge commission twice on the same profit).

Not quite true.

You get 1 BTC's worth of profit commission-free (since your profits are 1 BTC less than they were when you last paid any commission, and we don't charge commission twice on the same profit).

That's better.

[mechs]

This means that if you ever reinvest, you get 1 BTC's worth of profit commission-free (since you already paid commission on 1 BTC of profit, and we don't charge commission twice on the same profit).

There was some talk earlier in the thread about the value of just-dice accounts that had divested after a loss.  If someone was about to invest some bitcoin it would be worth buying one of these accounts to avoid paying commission fees for a while (depending on the current value of 'base').

Will

That is basically true.  An account with a big loss on it actually has some value to a would be investor.  For example, with a 100BTC loss, that could me a potential savings on commission up to 10 BTC (at the current 10% rate).

[physalis]

JD down?

[MikkisJ]

Probably some competitor ddossing.

[Mitchell]

By the way, CloudFlare has no use agains a ddos attack if the person(s) attacking the website already have your direct IP.

[dooglus]

JD down?

It should be up at https://54.217.248.250/ now, and at https://just-dice.com/ once the DNS info has propagated.

[camolist]

Down again? Domain returns the text 'default' ip returns a blank page