Topic: Building a crypto casino (Rivemont.io) around bitcointalk community: help wanted (Read 199 times)

Didn't see this before NotATether, always curious about these types of efforts, having actually been somewhat involved in past endeavours -- none of which, sadly, are still around, at least not in the shape I first knew them as.

The concept of a public-participation bankroll was always the coolest aspect for me -- Bitvest is the only one still doing that, I've participated in that but also in 999 (not for the site but for the in-game exchange bot), Yolodice even for a while, CryptoGames -- have been really lucky to profit pretty well from all of them (overall).

The most interesting was the global bankroll of MoneyPot (the original, not the ones with a recent project thread) -- that one by sheer luck I'd withdrawn my shares just before it rekt'd of the investors.

The glaring issue with those was custodial aspect. Literally handing over funds to the casino and hope they don't run away with it, or have an exploitable bug in one of their casino apps (as in case of MoneyPot, to roughly explain).

With smart contract functionality, I'm actually somewhat surprised there hasn't been a successor to all these casino-managed bankrolls as a form of trustless management. Be super cool if you'd work on that (since you're coding). I imagine it would be much harder for a Bitcoin bankroll, but not impossible (I speak without any sense of coding knowledge).

Would it be useful to get in touch with former operators of related sites? Or you really just want to get at this from scratch?

I think the project will be open-source code since the OP understand the community needs to trust their system and for them to get the needed bankroll through the forum.
About the dev that mysteriously appears, you have a point and I hope the OP and the new team do something about the code because a situation has once happened on this forum where a certain user shared game seeds with a casino user (I don't remember the casino name but those that aware of this issue will definitely remember).

So is this going to be a Open Source project ...... or just Proprietary code that are saved on a Private GitHub? The thing is.... a developer that just mysteriously disappeared are not a good sign, because this person had access to your code and he or she might come back at a later stage to access the bankroll via a backdoor. 

I might consider investing some small amount when the site is up and running and I can see what we are dealing with.... I like the "ease" with which you are making it possible for people to invest. (One click solution) 

That's a nice initiative you've taken, I like your approach of "when it's done" development.

Since yolodice closed shop, I've been trying to park my BTC in non-KYC casino that allows anon community investments.

Unfortunately I'm not a proficient coder, and can't offer any substantial help in that regard, and can just wait for your future updates, as I'm sure your efforts would be highly rewarded once the site gets rollin' stable.

Would you be interested to take in consideration while designing the application framework, in using the ready made anon/marketplace/exchange/wallet application that only lacks a casino module and somehow fork your, or implement your code to the already existing framework?
There's an option to post an CCS (Community funding proposal) and ask community development funds if the proposal fits the particl project narrative. All past proposals were community funded and granted. Check more at https://ccs.particl.io/ideas/

It's probably a complete rewrite, but could be beneficial to both projects instantly, as you'd have instant global coverage and almost targeted user base already available.
Would you care to check the Particl Marketplace project at particl.io, and see if there's any viability in my halfbaked idea?

Maybe if there's synergy in two projects, an interested dev from particl community could give a hand or share an idea? I believe the casino option/module is going to be implemented in the Particl stack once down the road, just as Satoshi envisioned, and that topic has already been discussed on particl discord general channel, with some time-deprived dev abandoning his take on a bust-a-bit clone module for Particl Desktop.

Sorry for possible off topic halfstorming the ideas on your thread, just looking for a way to contribute and see the product as soon as possible in stable versions.

And whatever happens, I wish you success in making a stable product.

Sent you a PM.

You can PM me, if you'd like. I have lots of experience with casino software and deployed a number of solutuions over the years - including Sic-Bo.

I've mentioned here and there that I was coding code for a crypto casino web service over the last several weeks and that's why I was inactive.

To be clear, this casino which we are going to host on rivemont.io - we already bought the domain and hosting but it doesn't point to anything yet - is only going to have Sic-bo dice. So it's like Bustabit or Primedice in that there's just one game. Except there is no other sic-bo dice crypto betting site on the entire internet (Evolution Gaming packaged on some sites comes close but... it's a live dealer game and quite inaccessible).

It's also going to be a community-funded project. A button on the site will let you deposit bitcoin as a bankroll investment, as the owner and I do not have big money to invest in the bankroll. Currently, it's just the two of us - we used to have another developer but he mysteriously disappeared last month. Also, the owner almost never browses Bitcointalk so it's really just me around here.

So, the project has been stalling and has been pushed weeks behind the launch date because we can't get time to work on the massive amount of backend code that still needs to be written. The frontend is already completed so this is the only thing holding us up.

So, I'm calling on the community for this one.

Anyone who knows Javascript (Node.js in particular - the entire project is written in JS) is free to contact me on Bitcointalk, Telegram, and such to jump aboard this project if you want to help us speed things up. We can't offer a salary due to our limited budget - even I'm doing this for free - but we can negotiate for you a cut of the site's net revenue once we launch - which by the way we anticipate the site to rake AT LEAST tens of thousands of $. All the source code is hosted on private Github repos so there is not much required from you besides free time and proficiency in JS.

We really wanted to launch this thing back in December but we could not recruit enough devs for this in time so I was overloaded.

No wannabe scammers, time-wasters, or people offering "token supply" for project funds please (there was this one guy who was demanding KYC(!!!) from us over telegram as a condition for him working with us so we want to avoid those kind of people).