BalloonBit.com | Provably Fair | 1% House Edge | Original gambling game

[dooglus]

Also a spelling mistake :-
It Says "Withdrew" instead of "Withdraw".

No, that's right. All the lines are past tense.

First SatoshiCarnival, now BalloonBit.. seems this missing delimiter between the client seed and nonce are a typical thing for those sites with joyful-party names heh Actually BikiniDice also almost introduced that bug, bit of a Brazilian Carnival I guess.

(site is down, but I assume that was the bug)

Yeah, that's the one.

[BalloonBit.com]

Game was opened again.
we were forced renew our history once again, We apologize for any inconvenience caused and hope for your understanding.

[SpreadBit]

I deposited 0.002, didn't got it.
Username : SpreadBit
TXID: https://blockchain.info/tx/4950e8bc74602bbe59ab26624e165c71db4afa718c68c5999808da4d3621b588

[BalloonBit.com]

I deposited 0.002, didn't got it.
Username : SpreadBit
TXID: https://blockchain.info/tx/4950e8bc74602bbe59ab26624e165c71db4afa718c68c5999808da4d3621b588

Your deposit still is not confirmed/

[SpreadBit]

I deposited 0.002, didn't got it.
Username : SpreadBit
TXID: https://blockchain.info/tx/4950e8bc74602bbe59ab26624e165c71db4afa718c68c5999808da4d3621b588

Your deposit still is not confirmed/

See carefully, got 2 confirmations. :/

[williamj2543]

Lost my 0.03 btc... Its a fun idea though (site could be a bit better designed, it got a bit slow, and the deposit took a while after 1 conf).

[BalloonBit.com]

Warning! All current games will be stopped for five minutes before opening the server seed and string (as if you pressed the button to pick up the win). You will be notified about it for an hour before.

[Holderbert]

Looks interesting. I might give it a go 

[Bobblehead Pete]

Looks interesting. I might give it a go 

Me too. And I think its an easy money. Correct me if Im wrong.

[Vani]

Looks interesting. I might give it a go 

Me too. And I think its an easy money. Correct me if Im wrong.

If you were right, we all were playing right now

[dooglus]

I dont expect many ppl to try it out with that min bet in place.! If they lower it a bit then..mayb.! GL with it anyways.!

We could lower min bets and withdrawals, but then we have to take the costs of the commission from our members.

I don't understand what you mean. What is this commission you mention, and why would a lower minimum bet affect it?

As far as I can see, lowering the minimum bet to 100 satoshis or something (1 bit) would get more people playing, and would reduce the variance for you.

[dooglus]

I clicked 'bet with BTC', it asked for the bet size, with 0.001 already showing in the box. I decided to go with the default, hit 'start', and it complained 'minimal bet is 0.001 BTC'. Well, that's the default value that I used!



It seems I have to retype the value - the pre-filled value doesn't work, and the error message is confusing (the problem isn't that my bet is less than the minimum, it's that I didn't type a number at all it seems).

Edit: I don't see the hash of my server seed anywhere. You should publish that in advance so we can be sure you have committed to it.

The 'history' table also isn't updating for me when I bet - I have to reload the whole site to see myself listed on it.

Here's a table showing how each of the 101 possible 'remainders' maps to a payout, to help with verifying the provable fairness:

  0 :   x0
  1 :   x1         26 :   x1.33      51 :   x2.00      76 :   x4.00
  2 :   x1.01      27 :   x1.35      52 :   x2.04      77 :   x4.17
  3 :   x1.02      28 :   x1.37      53 :   x2.08      78 :   x4.35
  4 :   x1.03      29 :   x1.39      54 :   x2.13      79 :   x4.55
  5 :   x1.04      30 :   x1.41      55 :   x2.17      80 :   x4.76
  6 :   x1.05      31 :   x1.43      56 :   x2.22      81 :   x5.00
  7 :   x1.06      32 :   x1.45      57 :   x2.27      82 :   x5.26
  8 :   x1.08      33 :   x1.47      58 :   x2.33      83 :   x5.56
  9 :   x1.09      34 :   x1.49      59 :   x2.38      84 :   x5.88
 10 :   x1.10      35 :   x1.52      60 :   x2.44      85 :   x6.25
 11 :   x1.11      36 :   x1.54      61 :   x2.50      86 :   x6.67
 12 :   x1.12      37 :   x1.56      62 :   x2.56      87 :   x7.14
 13 :   x1.14      38 :   x1.59      63 :   x2.63      88 :   x7.69
 14 :   x1.15      39 :   x1.61      64 :   x2.70      89 :   x8.33
 15 :   x1.16      40 :   x1.64      65 :   x2.78      90 :   x9.09
 16 :   x1.18      41 :   x1.67      66 :   x2.86      91 :  x10   
 17 :   x1.19      42 :   x1.69      67 :   x2.94      92 :  x11.11
 18 :   x1.20      43 :   x1.72      68 :   x3.03      93 :  x12.50
 19 :   x1.22      44 :   x1.75      69 :   x3.12      94 :  x14.29
 20 :   x1.23      45 :   x1.79      70 :   x3.23      95 :  x16.67
 21 :   x1.25      46 :   x1.82      71 :   x3.33      96 :  x20   
 22 :   x1.27      47 :   x1.85      72 :   x3.45      97 :  x25   
 23 :   x1.28      48 :   x1.89      73 :   x3.57      98 :  x33.33
 24 :   x1.30      49 :   x1.92      74 :   x3.70      99 :  x50   
 25 :   x1.32      50 :   x1.96      75 :   x3.85     100 : x100

[BalloonBit.com]

It is shown and could be changed in profile settings.

[edmundduke]

Congratz! Dooglus won 10BTC!! wow!

Edit: Above post got edited.

You cut off the bet history above the interesting part:



Can you see what I did there?

(Note that I PM'ed the owner telling him about the exploit, didn't withdraw anything, then waited for him to take the site down before posting this 'clue').

This is the most interesting post i have seen in btctalk in a while. Doog you really are good at everything related to gambling!

[Arrogantx]

This is the most interesting post i have seen in btctalk in a while. Doog you really are good at everything related to gambling!

You are just figuring this out?   

[BAGOBO]

Nice & unique game.
I like ballonn since I was kid...until now 

Gonna try it and hope it is provably fair

[Equinoxx]

Looked nice..
Until I lost 0.13 on the 97% bet.
Yeah... Balls.

[dooglus]

The game seems to work pretty well now that the provable fairness isn't obviously cheatable.

I tried a few Martingale style bets and managed not to bust. It's tricky because there's on a 100x range between the min and max bets, so there's not a lot of space to have a losing streak play out:

[coincolonel]

Good to see something new here. Be careful with your code next time and you're good to go!

[dooglus]

Good to see something new here. Be careful with your code next time and you're good to go!

It's kind of like a slower less fun version of moneypot.com, which I guess is where the idea came from. But the design is nicer I think.