[Win 180% of a bet] A simple automated lottery

[pent]

You didnt break anything, you just get jackpot up to 10 They are still comming... fuck ))

[Cory]

Yay I got 0.16 on my 0.1 investment.

You'll have to tell us how you did, Jonathan!

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

Yay I got 0.16 on my 0.1 investment.

You'll have to tell us how you did, Jonathan!

How I did what? Purchase 500+ lottery tickets, one after the other after the other? XD

There's advantages to having SSH access to a bitcoin server...

-Jonathan

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

Ok, I just bought another 100+ tickets..

LOL

[Cory]

Yay I got 0.16 on my 0.1 investment.

You'll have to tell us how you did, Jonathan!

How I did what? Purchase 500+ lottery tickets, one after the other after the other? XD

There's advantages to having SSH access to a bitcoin server...

-Jonathan

How you did in terms of luck! How much did you spend and how much did you get back? :D

Also, at this point it is statistically advantageous to just send as many 0.1 bets as you can in hopes of getting ticket 777. You will likely recoup any losses. :D

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AjEKMLRLs2mOdHJuUXFrNjlaRkNuUUw2OENhSDhGWXc&output=html

[pent]

Okay, Jonathan.

All transactions before my promise @2011-08-29 10:47:04 are being refunded:

514 bets in
51.4 BTC IN
254 payouts
49.36 BTC OUT

Difference is 2.04 BTC - because I changed % of payout back to 160. So Im sending them. These are yours.

5 BTC price for your adjective mind are somewhere here. lol

All other tickets processed under normal conditions.

Thank you for your game

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

Okay, Jonathan.

All transactions before my promise @2011-08-29 10:47:04 are being refunded:

514 bets in
51.4 BTC IN
254 payouts
49.36 BTC OUT

Difference is 2.04 BTC - because I changed % of payout back to 160. So Im sending them. These are yours.

5 BTC price for your adjective mind are somewhere here. lol

All other tickets processed under normal conditions.

Thank you for your game

Awe.. Let's let it run through. I want to see a Jackpot happen! I'll send them back your way. I'm just testing the odds on the game at this point.

You saw the spreadsheet, right?

-Jonathan

[pent]

Yeah I want to see jackpot too Previous one I saw in tests only

[pent]

And please... Dont send more than 1500 bets at once ))) Otherwise my bitcoin client will shoot itself in the head

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

And please... Dont send more than 1500 bets at once ))) Otherwise my bitcoin client will shoot itself in the head

You don't have the number of tickets remaining anywhere on the site, do you?

-Jon

[pent]

You have to see in your session all of my client catched from you. Actually I see them on my admin panel. About 230 for now waiting for confirms.

[pent]

You see, Cory transactions processing faster by network. Because he sent few bets. I don't know why bitcoin network refusing processing all of yours in single block. I noticed this while tested this lottery. May be it is internal dos protection.

[Cory]

You see, Cory transactions processing faster by network. Because he sent few bets. I don't know why bitcoin network refusing processing all of yours in single block. I noticed this while tested this lottery. May be it is internal dos protection.

Heh, well I'd expect some wonky things to happen when you're dealing with hundreds of small payments.

And please... Dont send more than 1500 bets at once ))) Otherwise my bitcoin client will shoot itself in the head

You don't have the number of tickets remaining anywhere on the site, do you?

-Jon

I didn't think there were "tickets"... Isn't a random number generated for for each bid, allowing duplication?

[pent]

I didn't think there were "tickets"... Isn't a random number generated for for each bid, allowing duplication?

I didn't say anything about duplication. This is just random number, allowing duplication. Right. You can get JP either taking few tickets or you will not see it even taking 1000. It is just random.

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

I didn't think there were "tickets"... Isn't a random number generated for for each bid, allowing duplication?

I didn't say anything about duplication. This is just random number, allowing duplication. Right. You can get JP either taking few tickets or you will not see it even taking 1000. It is just random.

Interesting..

So what are the odds of 230 / 777 hitting the jackpot? Is it roughly 30%?

-Jonathan

[pent]

This is the simulation of 10 attempts to take jackpot:

# php simulate.php
Got jackpot after 269 try
Got jackpot after 1672 try
Got jackpot after 184 try
Got jackpot after 1252 try
Got jackpot after 834 try
Got jackpot after 67 try
Got jackpot after 711 try
Got jackpot after 600 try
Got jackpot after 22 try

[pent]

These are another 10

# php simulate.php
Got jackpot after 1213 try
Got jackpot after 1471 try
Got jackpot after 844 try
Got jackpot after 629 try
Got jackpot after 839 try
Got jackpot after 625 try
Got jackpot after 1018 try
Got jackpot after 736 try
Got jackpot after 1072 try

[Jonathan Ryan Owens]

These are another 10

# php simulate.php
Got jackpot after 1213 try
Got jackpot after 1471 try
Got jackpot after 844 try
Got jackpot after 629 try
Got jackpot after 839 try
Got jackpot after 625 try
Got jackpot after 1018 try
Got jackpot after 736 try
Got jackpot after 1072 try

Cool.

Well, here's the final stats.

Dead heat!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AjEKMLRLs2mOdHJuUXFrNjlaRkNuUUw2OENhSDhGWXc#gid=0

Sorry I busted your even money promotion!

That was fun!

Regards,
Jonathan

[Cory]

Lol Jonathan. I thought I was going to have a chance to double my money. :P

Thanks for posting the stats! :D