Bets of Bitcoin - Bitcoin betting on real world events

[FreeMoney]

My idea - freeze it. Sort out things.

That punishes the innocent (those who are owed coins from their winning bets).  That would be, in my opnion, unacceptable for Bets Of Bitcoin to do.

I have coins with NCKRAZZE, therefore my interest.

Then talk to NCKRAZZE about getting your funds back.

Bets of bitcoins is responsible for BTC that go into it and out again.
The platform would take 5% of 300 illicit acquired BTC.

NCKRAZZE has been given a scammer tag and is not reacting to messages.
He has failed to present any information for repayment.

Expecting a service like this to police the source of funds is ridiculous.

If a service was going to do that they would need to give warning to not be thieves/fraudsters themselves.

And the only appropriate time to do it would be before the money was allowed to be wagered and wagered against.

[coinjedi]

We have no right, ability or interest in playing the police. There is no way to determine the origin of the bet, "rightful" owners or a new distribution scheme. We will make the distribution as usual. It seems that Vescudero did not default so far.

[giszmo]

NCKRAZZE has been given a scammer tag and is not reacting to messages.
He has failed to present any information for repayment.

you sound like he defaulted?

We have no right, ability or interest in playing the police. There is no way to determine the origin of the bet, "rightful" owners or a new distribution scheme. We will make the distribution as usual. It seems that Vescudero did not default so far.

you sound like you know he did not default?

(As much as I felt very stupid to fall for this 300BTC bet right after placing my 1BTC I now feel slight chances of not loosing it. How is "default" determined when people claim he owes them money and he claims not to be in default?)

(Special "lol" for scammer tag being a clear sign of somebody being evil.)

[coinjedi]

Here is my understanding of the situation:
The bet is on Vescudero's investment scheme, which does not seem to default so far.

MoinCoin thinks that the statement and the large bets on it is created by NCKRAZZE, who did run another investment scheme himself. He seems to run away with other's money. MoinCoin thinks that the source of the large bets is from this scheme, so we should freeze the account. This is not something we would do.

[retrapher]

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=358

Can we get a ruling on this? it's been over a week since the event date?

[Stephen Gornick]

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=358

Can we get a ruling on this? it's been over a week since the event date?

That might have been a little confusing.  The results that they label "September" are released in October.  The bet statement does say "This statement asserts that in the October 1, 2012 release" ... but it is possible the evaluation of that statement was waiting for results labeled "October", which will not happen for a month and would be the wrong results.

Incidentally, I lost on that one.

[retrapher]

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=358

Can we get a ruling on this? it's been over a week since the event date?

That might have been a little confusing.  The results that they label "September" are released in October.  The bet statement does say "This statement asserts that in the October 1, 2012 release" ... but it is possible the evaluation of that statement was waiting for results labeled "October", which will not happen for a month and would be the wrong results.

Incidentally, I lost on that one.

In context though, the title of the bet is "iOS market share will be above 60% by Oct 1, 2012". So they're referring to September results released in the beginning of October.

[coinjedi]

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=358

Can we get a ruling on this? it's been over a week since the event date?

I was thinking that they would label the October 1st release as October, but it is (naturally) labeled for the data as September. So I put the verdict as "True".

[Stephen Gornick]

Ah ... I see why every single BetsOfBitco..in e-mail ends up in my spam folder.

I've noticed that gmail is particularly insistent that all messages from bets@betsofbitco.in get placed in my spam folder.  I "train" the filter by marking them "not spam", but the .in force is too strong or something else is causing it to remain flagged as spam.

Setting up SPF on your DNS might help the spam algorithm to more correctly identify the legitimacy of the message.

I'll look into SPF.

$ dig  @ns-canada.topdns.com betsofbitco.in txt

gives:

;; ANSWER SECTION:
betsofbitco.in.      3600   IN   TXT   "v=spf1 a -all"


And because I have a spam filter service that relays messages to me, that filter rule will always cause a hard-fail.

If you change that to softfail, ... "~all" instead of "-all", then my spam filter can at least be sane.

I see others recommend softfail as being recommended for when the mail destinations (recipients) are not under a company-controlled set.  Here's one recommendation affirming softfail as being less draconian:
 - http://serverfault.com/a/355513

[coinjedi]

If you change that to softfail, ... "~all" instead of "-all", then my spam filter can at least be sane.

Done! It may take a while until it propagates to your DNS.

[Sant001]

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=719

It revolves around the "18:00-23:59 close price in the Mt.Gox one month chart"

1. Is the Mtgox.com chart time EST? Where does it say so?

2. Also 18:00-23:59 I suppose you'd see this interval only on certain screen resolutions, on mine the last interval is actually 16:00-23:59. I suppose the bet refers to it?

[coinjedi]

http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=719

It revolves around the "18:00-23:59 close price in the Mt.Gox one month chart"

1. Is the Mtgox.com chart time EST? Where does it say so?

2. Also 18:00-23:59 I suppose you'd see this interval only on certain screen resolutions, on mine the last interval is actually 16:00-23:59. I suppose the bet refers to it?

I think they use UTC-1, but it doesn't really matter as long as they consistently show everybody the same time (which I think they do). You should be able to confirm that October 2nd's closing price is $12.83. Please send me a screenshot if you see something else.

[Sant001]

You should be able to confirm that October 2nd's closing price is $12.83. Please send me a screenshot if you see something else.

Yes indeed, that's what I get here:



Though if the result could be made more obvious to the average user bets will be higher and more frequent, such as the Obama bet.

[rlh]

RE: This thread-- TL;DR

Is there a post or another thread that mentions strategy?  Also, considering that early betters have an advantage, is it profitable to create a Statement and bet equal amounts for each side?

If enough people posted bets to your statement, couldn't you make a profit, regardless of the results?

[coinjedi]

RE: This thread-- TL;DR

Is there a post or another thread that mentions strategy?  Also, considering that early betters have an advantage, is it profitable to create a Statement and bet equal amounts for each side?

If enough people posted bets to your statement, couldn't you make a profit, regardless of the results?

I am not aware of any strategy discussions. But obviously, what you suggested is possible. Also remember statement submitter's get 5% of the losing side. Submitting a popular statement is very profitable.

[giszmo]

… so I wanted to post about my bet on facebook and came across some issues:

• Images grab attention! Allow the creator of a bet to provide an image as well. No only would that help to get your site look 1.000.000 times cooler but also would it help to get facebook posts get read. If nothing else, please at least put some image on every page so you get your logo posted.
• The headline in my fb-post should grab attention. "Bets of Bitcoin" is boring. Make it the title of the bet.
• Make it show the text of the bet

All this information is grabbed from the site without any fb-connect voodoo and should works fine for sites that follow best practice html rules.

(Also: All bets are done. Please tell me at least now how much I can win if I win. For you it is just a line of code as all the vote weights are in place. For your users it's looking up the formula and punching in the numbers for each bet. This sux! Yes, I said that before but it still sux sux sux!)

[Daily Anarchist]

Concession speech has been made.

This one is settled.

http://www.betsofbitco.in/item?id=5

[theymos]

I would not have closed the presidential bets yet. The electoral college could theoretically choose someone other than Obama.

[Daily Anarchist]

I would not have closed the presidential bets yet. The electoral college could theoretically choose someone other than Obama.

Obama won't flood the FEMA camps until after he's sworn in again.

[Stephen Gornick]

I hate to be a wet blanket on some light-hearted bet statements, but i don't think this bet statement is suitable for BetsOfBitco.in
 - http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=871

Technically, it should be disallowed because the outcome is easily manipulated.   

But even if it wasn't, the statement's scope is much too narrow in focus to be of interest to anyone except the two people in on the joke.