Guess the picture and make some BTC

[Tritonio]

Instead of spending time on free BTC sites, which is nice but you'd be getting paid more for doing almost any job in the world, why not use your guessing skills to earn some BTC on Apophenia?

Currently the payback is way more than 100% which means that, on average, for every bitcoin played the site distributes back more than 1 BTC. So, yeah, on average, I am still loosing money but I hope this will change as more people get in. Until that time why don't you take advantage of this?

Here is the site: https://apopheniabtc.com

The minimum bet right now is 0.004฿ and if your guess is correct you will get 0.026฿. (Usually those numbers are both a little bit higher)

You can read all the rules and stuff on the site but the general idea is that your are trying to guess a distorted picture. The picture gradually gets less distorted so if you don't guess early someone else will guess and you'll get nothing. If you guess too early chances are that you won't guess correctly because of the distrortion. Most pictures also have a hint so make sure you read that before you guess.

There is only one picture on the site right now (I regularly keep 1 or 2 pictures open):


The hint says: "What's the text saying". This means that this picture is something like a captcha. Somewhere behind the distortion is some piece of text. You have to type what that text says as an answer.

There are other categories of pictures: movies, actor names, video games, objects, places, animals. Anything goes. Also some times I post hintless pictures where you have NO IDEA what the picture shows, those are much harder to solve but having your mind free to guess is fun cause the apophenia effect kicks in badly and you see completelly different stuff. :-)

Also, Apophenia has a referral program which could earn you a few cents. When someone visits the site using your referral link, you get to earn 5% of their betting fees (as long as they don't clear their cookies or change browser, they are marked as YOURS).
The link is in this form: https://apopheniabtc.com/?partner=youraddress
Or if you need BBcode for your signature:

Code:

[size=14pt][glow=black,2]__[url=http://apopheniabtc.com?partner=forumsig][color=orange]ApopheniaBTC - Win [btc] for solving challenges![/color][/url]__[/glow][/size]

The main Apophenia thread is here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=183240

Feel free to ask any questions! (or browse through the main thread since I've answered lots of things there too)

[b!z]

I've played the game before, but I never managed to guess a picture right :-)
Your site is very nice though!

[marcovaldo]

I am a little bit confused. Don't know this concept.
But I'm curious to see the answer because I don't see any text in the picture 

[b!z]

I am a little bit confused. Don't know this concept.
But I'm curious to see the answer because I don't see any text in the picture 

There is a black and white blurry picture and you have to guess what it is. You pay for every guess you take, and if you get it right you get the prize. I think.

[Tritonio]

It's exactly what b!z said.

As for the current picture, if you don't see any text, then it's still too early to guess. The pictures start REALLY distorted. You should wait some hours for the picture to clean up. If you click on the picture (on the site, not here) a window will open that allows you to bet on the picture (if you think you know the answer), to see the hint for the picture, to see any wrong bets that have been already placed on the picture (you don't want to bet something that has been already tried by someone else) and to see how many hours remain for the picture. As time passes by the picture get more and more clean. My suggestion would be to just leave a tab open in your browser and check it whenever you can. If you see a picture that you can solve, bet on it. The tab autorefreshes every 10 minutes.

[marcovaldo]

Ok I understand now the idea of the website.
But what I don't understand is how you make money.


Ok, I got that you have to pay to guess, and only the winner will get the reward (which is higher than the price for a guess).
But why do you say that you are losing money now?
And how would you make money if more people are playing?


For example if 10 people tried to guess the picture and paid 0.01 btc. The only amount if 0.1 btc.
You could take 1% for the house edge, and give 99% to the winner? Like that, you will always make money.

[Tritonio]

Ok I understand now the idea of the website.
But what I don't understand is how you make money.


Ok, I got that you have to pay to guess, and only the winner will get the reward (which is higher than the price for a guess).
But why do you say that you are losing money now?
And how would you make money if more people are playing?


For example if 10 people tried to guess the picture and paid 0.01 btc. The only amount if 0.1 btc.
You could take 1% for the house edge, and give 99% to the winner? Like that, you will always make money.

Only 50% of the bet gets added to the pot. The rest is kept by the site. But currently the site looses more money paying for he starting pots (which are funded exclusively by the site's wallet) than what it's making by that 50% of each bet. So until there are more bets per picture (in other words more bets per starting pot I pay) I am loosing money.

The system you propose wouldn't work because the first player to bet would have no reason to bet since there would be NO starting pot. ;-) So I have to pay for the starting pot myself for every picture I upload.

[b!z]

Ok I understand now the idea of the website.
But what I don't understand is how you make money.


Ok, I got that you have to pay to guess, and only the winner will get the reward (which is higher than the price for a guess).
But why do you say that you are losing money now?
And how would you make money if more people are playing?


For example if 10 people tried to guess the picture and paid 0.01 btc. The only amount if 0.1 btc.
You could take 1% for the house edge, and give 99% to the winner? Like that, you will always make money.

Only 50% of the bet gets added to the pot. The rest is kept by the site. But currently the site looses more money paying for he starting pots (which are funded exclusively by the site's wallet) than what it's making by that 50% of each bet. So until there are more bets per picture (in other words more bets per starting pot I pay) I am loosing money.

The system you propose wouldn't work because the first player to bet would have no reason to bet since there would be NO starting pot. ;-) So I have to pay for the starting pot myself for every picture I upload.

You should add some bonuses (free bet after every x amount of bets, or free mBTC after you make 1 bet etc), maybe it will bring more traffic to your site.

[Tritonio]

You should add some bonuses (free bet after every x amount of bets, or free mBTC after you make 1 bet etc), maybe it will bring more traffic to your site.

This is in my plans although not in the immediate ones. I've nooticed that most people who start playing, stay so I should first focus on bringing more new players and not so much in trying to keep the old ones. But it's definitely in my plans.