Topic: BitMillions.com- More than ฿ 1,400 in Prizes - Play with only ฿ 0.01! - page 3. (Read 21634 times)

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I'm curious, how do you deal with orphan blocks? Do you consider it to be a valid block for your draw as well?

Part of that is just the nature of lottories, really large wins for a low price, but also a large house edge. I actually really like bitmillions compared to my regional lotteries because the cost is similar and the payouts are higher. For example the chance of winning anything on a well know Canadian lottery, lotto 6/49, is 1 in 32.8!

fun game, I like the constant trickle of payouts during the whole day too... makes for a surprise when my phone vibrates with a win.

however, I do wish the house edge could be a bit lower - 8% is too high for me to play as much as I did on satoshidice.  I think 3-5% would be more reasonable for a game where the running costs are very low now the site is up, especially if you want to increase volume to the levels of satoshidice.

Just my 2c.

Will

Agreed TradeFortress, we are working into that... I have than in my TODO List, have no timeline yet, but it will definitely be done.

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One suggestion: How about paying out affiliate payments once it reaches 0.01? Creates quite a bit of small dust, and you're spending a lot in TX fees

Thanks midnightlightning! We worked hard on the design!


I totally agree! By the way the Lotto Logo you mention was an option to replace the Gold Coin you mention... I also didn't like that header at all, but since we already we a few weeks behing schedule, we decided to launch anyways and change it latter... but that "latter" became longer that I thought.


I totally understand your point, but when looking at any lottery site in the world, they all present it on the same way... so I honestly taked as a standard way to do it.


Thanks

Oh, a few more usability quirks, while I'm at it:

When looking at a ticket, the "order by draw" text in the upper-right of the list of draws played looks like it should be clickable (and shows a pointer cursor on hover), but doesn't do anything for me in Chrome. I presume it would enable you to sort the draws by winning amount (which would be awesome)? The same thing for the list of tickets on a draw detail page. Also, the little arrow next to the "order by draw" is different on the draw pages (solid arrow, pointing down) and the ticket pages (chevron pointing right); might want to harmonize those?

In your header, on the home page, there's a BitMillions logo that links back to the home page (useless; you're already on the home page), but on all other pages, the header is replaced to have the purchase address take up the majority of the space, and the logo is removed. The only link to the home page is then at the bottom of the page, in the footer. I've found myself multiple times mousing over the header looking for somewhere to click to go home, and then remembering it's at the bottom and having to scroll there. Maybe put some sort of "home" link in the header on internal pages, as that's a common user interface methodology?

Just wanted to comment on a great design for your site, ShaTwo; I played a few times and really enjoy the feel of having a real "ticket" showing my bets. As a web designer/developer myself, I appreciate the design; Kudos!

A few suggestions, though, from me as a designer (if you don't mind):

One design choice I'd change is the style of the "Ticket Total Wins" header: to me the gold coloring doesn't make that line pop, and that's a line that I really want to see at a glance. Everywhere else on the site, gold/tan is a background color, which may be why it looks diminished to me. Plus it's very close to the orange used by the "profit button" on each ticket/draw when the bet was lost. Would you consider changing it either to green to match the color of a winning "profit button" or red (matching the "with this luck..." line beneath it) to really pop?

Also, what's the meaning behind the gold coin that's used next to the "Total Ticket Wins" header? I'm not sure what the imagery is in the middle of the gold coin; is that a cross? Or scales? Is there a reason it's not a Bitcoin "coin" like the coins used on the pool size table on the home page?

And the blue "Lotto" logo that's used on the detail page of any draw; was that left over from an earlier design? You have no blue anywhere else on the site, and the two "o"s in that logo look like they are two parts that combined into your current logo.

And finally, I agree with the comment that the display of the current jackpot size is misleading. Currently the big red box at the top of the site reads 1281.0461, but below it on the home page, pool 4 shows 1,245.0662 (and 35.66749 for three, and 0.312348 for two). If you add up the current pools 2, 3 and 4, you get the total in the red box. However, since the winner only takes 50%, I'd really like to see the red box show 640.5230 in that case, as that's the true winning jackpot at the moment. The listing of the pool sizes on the home page can stay as they are, since you have right beneath it that 50% of the pool is retained, but maybe have a separate table for "what you'd win right now if you matched 2, 3, or 4 numbers", which would show 640.5230, 17.9899, and 0.1562 respectively. Having the "current pool" and "you win this amount" tables combined isn't accurate and rather misleading.

Great site, and great responses to feedback in the forum, keep up the great work!

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I know Dooglus, that is why I edited the comment... I always claimed the House Fee is 10% of lossing bet, never really taked the time to do the math as you guys did. Thanks for that!

The thing is that gamblers don't care what you spend the house edge on.  They just want to know how much you pay out and how much you keep.  Whether you spend your 8% house edge on advertising or drugs doesn't make a different to me.  I still only get 92% of each bet back on average.

A casino won't say "our house edge on roulette is less than 1% because we give you free drinks while you play and it cost a lot to build the casino in the first place".

You guys are correct, technically the house fee should be in around 8.5% ( Edited )

From that we need to deduct our costs:

- Transaction Fees
- Partners & Referrals
- Hosting & CDN ( CloudFlare )
- SEO & Advertising

Also risking of initial investment of BTC 1,300 in Prizes, plus the cost of building the site.

I guess after all these costs the net margin is much more lower than 7%, specially since we treat the BitMillions.com website as a Partner (at 50% RevShare) and use 100% of those funds for the marketing of the site.

The real action will come when we reach a BTC 5,000 JackPot, in our simulations, we got as higher as BTC 13,000 with an Exchange of $80 could be around $1,000,000 Dollar Pot! That will be interesting. I really think we will get there one day

yes, so, in this case, their commision will reach 7%

They also have to pay tx fees and referral commissions.

yes, because they don't say anything on giving the ticket back when hitting 2,3 or 4 numbers but if we count these hits percentage we will get 14.575037% + 0.697741% + 0.009793% + 0.000026% = 15.282597%


so, 10% * (1-0.152826) = 8.47174%


I know this is the best scenario where we aren't couting the free plays and the discounts on largers bets. but I don't think they will reach 7%
 

Just to add extra confusion, I get a slightly different result again, probably because I'm only counting losing bets as losing bets, whereas you're also counting match-2, 3, and 4 as losing bets I think.

79727040 out of 94109400 bets match nothing, and so are losing bet.  That's 84.71740% of bets.

The house keeps 10% of losing bets, so 8.47174%.

hmmm.. looks like I was doing some wrong calcs. but with this information now I'm getting about 8.5% house edge.

1 in 6.86 is 14.57% and 10% * (1-0.1457) = 8.5%

what am I'm missing?

Not only that, traditional lotteries as I posted before:

State Loteries

- 40% Goverment & Administration Fees (*1)
- 30% Lump Sum Deduction (*2)
- 43% Goverment Taxes Deduction (*2)

Players Spend in Tickets: $10.000.000.-

JackPot is $6.000.000.-

Paid as Lump Sum: $3.900.000.-

After Taxes: $2.223.000

BitMillions

Total Players Spend in Tickets: BTC 138.000.-

Total Prizes Paid to Players: BTC 127.650.-

All prizes are fully paid as Lump Sump & with no Tax Deductions as soon as the player ticket got enough confirmations ( Each Player is responsable for reporting to his Tax Jurisdiction )

In Sumary

At same amount of Bets

BitMillions will Paid Back to Players: BTC 127.650 ( Around $9.255.000 with BTC at $72.5 )
State Loteries Paid Back to Players: $2.223.000

Of course this is a basic example, since there is Sale Taxes, Smaller Jackpots, etc, that are not tacked into consideration.

And we are not even talking about the transparency and the Provably Fair Winning Number that make it imposible to the operator to cheat on the results.

Sources:

(*1) http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/econ/lottery-payouts-and-state-revenue-2010.aspx
(*2) http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetnovack/2012/08/15/how-much-tax-will-you-owe-on-that-320-million-powerball-jackpot/

Disclamer: Since we only charge in Lossing Bets, and chances of matching 1 are 1 in 6.86 we estimate that the house fee is around 8.5% and not 10%

[EDITED] House Fee Edited as corrected bellow.