Topic: ★★★ Bitcoin Video Casino ★★★ - ||| Over 500 BTC in Progressive Jackpots! ||| - page 57. (Read 143097 times)

Sure!

Bitcoin Video Casino has an API that anybody can use to make their own creations. This can include things such as building a new UI to play the games, creating mobile versions, trying out different AI strategies, etc. We have nothing against people creating bots to play the games. This is essentially what autoplay does already.

What we do have a problem with is people using the API to create bots that play the games too quickly. It's not fair to the other users if the bots can flood the server with too many games per second, especially when the jackpot is +EV. If we detect a user playing, for example, 100 games per second, we flag that as a malicious bot and disable the account.

The problem is that we can't detect users that split the bots over multiple accounts and multiple IP addresses. As far as we can tell, each single account is playing the games at a normal rate. All accounts on Bitcoin Video Casino are anonymous already, so there isn't anything to make these accounts stand out. It would be terrible if we started flagging real human accounts as bots just because they happened to be playing at the same time as the bots.

Some people have suggested extreme measures like forcing regular captchas on all users, but I believe that something like this will make the site less enjoyable for most users. We are still looking for a better solution to detecting malicious bots.

Bitcoin Video Casino absolutely does not operate any bots. We just run an honest site with 0.5% house edge and that's good enough for us.

Could you please address your site's stance on using bots to play your games?  Particularly bots playing the games only when the progressive makes it a positive play?

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. It looks like [email protected] was not forwarding to the correct email address. We have fixed the problem and are now working on replying to all of those emails. Sorry about that!

Same here.  Let me know if you hear anything.

Is there a problem with your email server?  I have been emailing [email protected] repeatedly for the last two days about a problem with my account and I have still received no response.

The site now up again. All deposits and accounts are fine. I'm really sorry about the inconvenience.

One of the hard disks on the server seems to have gotten filled up, so the server is experiencing some problems. We have temporarily taken down the server while we fix this.

I am really sorry about the inconvenience. All accounts and deposits are fine.

We have temporarily disabled the stats display since they were causing some problems on the database. When we build a better solution we can enable them again.

If you'd like us to look up some stats for your account, please feel free to email us at [email protected] and we can check the database for you.

hello why cant i check my personal stats? i have no adblock enabled and did try with multiple browsers.if i click my name for the stats just nothing happens,same for other users i did try,in the login window

Like I said to my previous message of a bot win with Video Poker, that went un-replied to. Here is another bot win in Roulette. Goes to show most of these wins are nothing but BOTS. You said you wanted names. I gave you some previously and some more now.

Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   4428a16881   Roulette   0.0002   Three zeroes   4.5978562
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   4428a16881   Roulette   0.0002   Two zeroes   0.0286
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   4428a16881   Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   ba0b35c58d           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   fb860b530f           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   bba2d33c35          Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   78913e808c      Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   ac214f521e           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   3ba50cfa8c           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   78913e808c           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   78913e808c           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   3ba50cfa8c           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   fc70c4fed4           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   7b4900dea4   Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   ba0b35c58d           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037
Jan 30, 2015 at 4:06pm   3ba50cfa8c           Roulette   0.0002   Hit 0   0.0037

This is beautiful customer service right here.  Direct and informative answers.  Other gaming sites take note. 

Hi,

Could you find us some online blackjack rules somewhere that state that if the dealer does not peek, then 21 vs dealer blackjack is a push when you split? We would be very interested to learn about this, and if this is universally the accepted rule then we will fix this on our site right away. We have implemented this site with our understanding of the Blackjack rules, but if something is not correct we will change it.

We can also look into enabling dealer peek at the cost of altering something else. This would be a bit more involved to implement, since it would require changes to the server back end, provably fair code, user interface, and then a lot of testing.

We can't have two sets of rules depending on whether the user is playing the progressive game or not. That would be too confusing for the user.

When we decided to build this site, everyone agreed that each game should have a progressive jackpot that all bets contribute towards it, and we are going to stick with that decision.

Sites that offer dealer peek, don't offer push on doubles or splits vs. a blackjack
Sites that don't offer peek - push on doubles or splits vs. blackjack

How about you limit the number of splits on aces to make up the difference?  Offering  surrender or dealer peek would sure eliminate a lot of what looks like real unfair.

And considering not everyone plays progressive jackpots, I could care less if that was eliminated to help improve the fairness.

At minimum, progressive jackpots should only come from the btc people who play the progressive put into it.

Another bots win. This is all I could get before it went off screen.

Jan 28, 2015 at 2:33pm   a2540a97f6   Jacks or Better   0.0005   Royal Flush   0.5258
Jan 28, 2015 at 2:33pm   bba2d33c35   Jacks or Better   0.0005   4 of a Kind   0.0125
Jan 28, 2015 at 2:33pm   64dc97020d   Jacks or Better   0.0005   4 of a Kind   0.0125

Person that won jackpot is of course on the top 20 leaderboard.


User               Total Bitcoin winnings
a2540a97f6            2878.5747186

Hi,

If I am understanding you correctly, the three issues that you presented boil down to this one issue: When you split on aces or tens and then get 21, you still end up losing if the dealer gets blackjack. As far as we can tell, this is standard blackjack behavior. This is why we don't list this in the rules. Your hand and the dealer's hand only counts as a blackjack if the first two cards are 21. Once you have split your hand, you will have now played more than two cards.

Here is a quote from wikipedia: "As a general rule, a ten on a split ace (or vice versa) is not considered a natural blackjack and does not get any bonus."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aces_and_eights_(blackjack)#Splitting

If you were to get 21 with three cards, and the dealer has blackjack, the dealer will win. Similarly, if you get blackjack and the dealer does not also have blackjack, you win no matter what since the best hand he could get would be 21 with three or more cards.

The relevant thing that we do list in the rules is "dealer does not peek". This means that if the dealer has blackjack, he does not immediately tell you. We could look into adding dealer peeking, but then we would need to change other rules in the dealer's favor to ensure that the house edge stays at 0.5% before progressive jackpot contributions.

No response to this?  You pretty much make up extra rules that no other casino has, then reply back with "we only have 0.5% advantage" etc.

You say to check the rules, so I check the rules.  None of this rip off parts are listed (lose both hands when you double and dealer has a BJ.  Lose both hands when you split against an ace.  Lose any hands where you split and get A10 and dealer has 21.)

Thumbs down to you.