Topic: bustabit – The original crash game - page 2. (Read 61361 times)

Hey, we made KYC mandatory based on our lawyers' advice, and Daniel had a different legal team. Rest assured, your personal information is only used to ensure you're eligible to invest in the bankroll and won't be passed on to third parties.

Surprised nothing is being said about this:




Why was this never an issue with Daniel and now is an issue with the new owner?

Yes thanks, that's what I was asking.
Also thanks for reminding me about dicesites, I thought is wasn't run anymore because NLNico is not active anymore here and forgot about his site: glad to see it is still up providing those uptated infos.

Assuming I understand your question right, yes. If there are no investments or divestments, then the change in the bankroll should match the change in investors' profit. For what it's worth and in case you didn't know, you can find detailed information on bustabit’s bankroll balance, investors' profit and more at https://dicesites.com/bustabit.

I was wondering about the the functioning of the bankroll: is it possible to keep track of investments/divestments in/from the bankroll by taking as reference two distinct moments, t1 and t2 for example, and comparing the difference (bankroll_t2 - bankroll_t1) with the difference (investors profit_t2 - investors' profit_t1), in the sense that in the absence of investments-divestments the differences mentioned above should coincide? or are there other variables at play?

Yeah, it was fixed shortly after Hussein posted. If you go to any game page, e.g. https://bustabit.com/game/10297069, and click on "Verify game result", you should be able to verify that game's outcome on ActuallyFair.com. Aditionally, our open-source verifier is also available for you.

Update on this? Is it fixed?

Sorry about that, there's a problem with actuallyfair where it's having some networking issue when connecting to the server that is privately hosted for bustabit. I have a permeant fix for that, and plan on deploying it today in a few hours

Something happened with the actuallyfair.com ? When I'm going e.g. this URL :

https://actuallyfair.com/apps/bustabit/vx/summary/567a98370fb7545137ddb53687723cf0b8a1f5e93b1f76f4a1da29416930fa59/10000001#he=1


I got, instead of result of game #10000001, this error message : Application error: a server-side exception has occurred (see the server logs for more information).

Digest: 555073511

Sometimes it works, but slowly. I'm observing this behaviour for several days (I saw the first error ~ 9-10 days back, or something like this).

I'm not going to try to convince you because that's what our provably fair system is for. It offers strong guarantees so that players don't have to blindly trust the operator. Unfortunately, by "watching the site for a little bit" you won't be able to check if you are actually being cheated. What you can (and should) do is verify your games, or if you can't, ask someone you trust. And if you have specific questions, I'm also happy to answer them for you.

For the curious ones, with Daniel's seed 8,535,716 hashes were used, and we've already played through approximately 248,000 hashes with the new one. The overall median for both games #1 through #8,535,716, and #10,000,001 through #10,248,000, is 1.97x. However, in the previous seed, 49.97% of all played games were green, whereas currently, we've "only" seen 49.84% greens

I didn't come here from the bad beats or from venting or for the need to keep re deposit to watch more fails and complain etc.

If you have been a pretty loyal Bab player from the past then you already know what I'm talking about. The new guy is clearly a con. All I'm doing is suggesting if you think about playing here. Just watch the rolls and pay attention to chat before you do. Literally no one wins.

Leo. Before you were doing the takeover you told everyone Moneypot wasn't cutting it and not making ends meet so you ended up buying bab. What's funny about that is you as in your own words. "Tweeked" the code before restarting the casino. If you have a super hard time getting players over to MP with that bs. Why would you think people would stay for it on bab? Also the verifier that is your own coding and the only one that works to check rolls no matter like you said it is open source. Hmm.

I can give countless facts to state claims but all you need to do is watch the site for a little bit and see what I'm saying. Med is constantly 1.4-1.7. Only time it shows above is when you look at thousands of rolls together.

Buyer beware. This guy also kept taking the max profit down claiming it was messing with the house edge of .1% He did it four times that I know of.

He also stated he couldn't see the rolls until after it started rolling just like everyone else. Then he told everyone he could see the rolls right before they started.

He constantly switched his story.

Like I said I'm not trying to get everyone wearing the conspiracy hat. Just before you deposit,  make sure you look at chat because 90% of people say this has gone to trash.

When you make multiple withdrawals from your account, the sending addresses will typically be different each time. This is because each withdrawal transaction consumes different unspent outputs (UTXOs) as inputs, and each UTXO is usually associated with a different address. Bustabit generates a new deposit address for each deposit, but if you reuse the old ones you will be more likely to receive transactions associated with those same addresses (which can potentially make it easier for someone to analyze your transaction history). As long as you don't reuse addresses, you should be able to benefit from all of our hot wallet privacy features.

Thanks for your prompt answer.

Actually what I wanted to know is : if I will make several withdrawals from my account will they all be sent from the same address or will the sending address be different each time? And if it's the second case could these addresses be linked each other in some way with chain analysis tools?

Maybe your sentence I quoted already answers my questions but  my limited technical knowledge prevents me from understanding it properly.

No, the unpaid deposit fee is generally a lot smaller and depends on 1) how expensive Bitcoin transactions are at the time you withdraw or tip another player, and 2) how many deposits you've made since you last withdrew or tipped someone. For example, say you made 20 deposits and now want to withdraw your profits. You'd have to pay the normal withdrawal fee, and what it costs to consolidate all the deposits you made:


So, making a lot of deposits will only incur additional costs for you, not for other players (and that's one of the reasons we can offer really cheap withdrawals).


We wouldn't be able to send from an address that hasn't received funds (i.e. doesn't have any outputs associated with it), but we don't consolidate deposits into a single address, if that's what you mean.

I need some clarification about withdrawal process: I see you apply a dynamic w/d fee linked to current network fees which is also displayed in w/d interface, that's crystal clear.
But I also see a "unpaid deposit fee " showing me zero ( maybe because I did not make a deposit in a long time now) which I don't understand what it is connected to (perhaps to the network fees at the time the deposit is made) and therefore I can't imagine what order of magnitude it is:  is it comparable to the classic w/d fee mentioned above or what?

Also, if I make different withdrawals do they come from the same address or will a brand new address be used for every transaction?

I still don't know the exact purchase date, and I didn't miss the question, I asked if providing the exact purchase date would be good use of my time. I'm already getting made fun of for mistakes that I made in what I've posted while being angry about this whole thing, so I don't even feel like beginning to try to explain what mistakes I made in the past translate in to having difficulty with locating the exact date for you now.

I thought I was clear, I became unhappy with the purchase when I went to sell the business and the broker informed me a .txt file posted on a website stating that a copy of source code had been purchased in no way qualifies as as software license. It doesn't even say that a license was purchased... It says source code was purchased. I didn't get the license, and then become unhappy with the license like you're wording the question as. There was never a license provided.

I've tried to post back a few times in the last couple of days, but just keep ranting stupidly about it. I don't know if I'll ever log in here again... I don't know if I'll let a lawyer run with it on contingency either... My blood pressure has been entirely too high for my own good, and I need to walk away from this. There's no good reason I'm as pissed as what I am expect for probably my own personal pride having been hurt (Talking up what I had to offer, stating I was licensed by Bustabit, and feeling like an idiot when I had nothing to back up my claims and looking like a complete dumbass on a video conference relating to this)

Ok.

I've just replied on the other thread that you also posted to, but can you please contact me on [email protected] from the email address you purchased a license? As I am unsure of exactly what you bought vs. what you expected to buy, it's difficult for me to try offer a resolution.

I agree - when buying a license, one should get a license. I did contact Bustabit, openly, in public, right here, just a few messages back. To which, Bustabit replied stating I should have asked for whatever I needed a the time of purchase. It is still at the time of purchase, even now, because time of purchase is a a term meaning not only for the payment of something but continuing through the time of delivery of what was purchased. Delivery has not taken place, hence, my purchase is still ongoing.

I was under the impression that being licensed by bustabit was absolutely an affiliation to Bustabit. I am not alone, google search the term "licensed by bustabit" (with the quotes), and you will see a number of sites stating they are officially licensed by Bustabit.

As stated before, there is a flaw with the "they" you are referring to, as in when you say "they do not distribute it" and "they do not sell it" and "they do not claim to be...". They in a legal sense needs to be an individual or a business entity, but instead "they" is an online presence (speaking of a domain name). There can never be an effectuated agreement with a domain name. This is yet another reason for my solution to include surrending the domain name to Bustabit, this would in essence transfer over "they" right back to bustabit, bustabit can then do whatever they want with "they" from there.

As far as the change in price relative to some fiat currency I simply do not respect the topic even being brought up. The reason I don't, is because the price was 2 bitcoin ... Had the price for instance been $50,000 USD and payable by bitcoin, then I would agree, the USD equivalent is the price that is in question. The fact that this is being brought up just goes to show how dollar hungry those that have are in a position of power with regard to Bustabit are, I think anyway. What has the site profited the owners ? 6100 BTC ? ... And yet here we are talking about 2 bitcoin and the fact that relative to the dollar, or whatever, those 2 bitcoins go a few times further than what they used to... Furthermore, in my first message where I posed the question, I was open to the option of possibly getting less than a full refund, but the out right refusal I won't be accepting anything but.

Continuing down the list of what is wrong here... Your supposed software license is an email. An email. The license being "Whatever they want" except for just a couple rules "don't distribute it" and "dont sell it" and "dont say you are affiliated with bustabit". How can you even be serious right now ? The "dont sell it" isn't even legal, due to first sale doctrine. I'm really not trying to be a dick about the whole situation but COME ON ... I can not possibly expect a large business entity (the kind with a legal team ) to accept a license of a printed email, where I point out "yep, right here, see, "whatever-they-want"-licensed" ... But the biggest issue is now it has come to light that even if that were acceptable as a legal software license, is that it is against the terms to state any affiliation with bustabit despite being licensed by bustabit (That was the biggest selling point of the whole thing, not only when payment was originally made, but when the people on the other side of my business broker wished to purchase the business from myself - I have worked with the broker to sell 3 businesses in the past).

So, for the following reasons I wish to surrender (transfer) the domain to bustabit and be sent 2 bitcoin as compensation for doing so:

- No license provided at time of purchase of license
- Misleading terminology, not able to state affiliated in any way with bustabit (Despite being licensed by them - I'm not the only one to think this google the search term with quotations "licensed by bustabit")
- No license still provided a great deal of time after payment having been made
- License Agreement, had it existed and been given, can not be effectuated with a domain name as a buyer
- License Agreement via email, with licensing terms of "whatever-they-want" is legally not up to par.
- EU law allows for a period of time after a license is given to refuse it (So, I do not wish to at this point email in to request one, I already talked about it in this forum thread, and was declined one)
- License (email) if it did count contains non-legal caveat, for instance "dont sell it" when someone can absolutely sell a copyrighted work due to First Sale Doctrine.
- It is ridiculous to be licensed by any entity, and then be told that you are to not show your credentials proudly on a website. That is like Costa Rica giving a gambling license to Bustabit, and then sending an email saying "so, yeah, about that license, don't put that online anywhere or say anything about us being affiliated with one another, despite giving us a hefty sum of 2 bitcoins to be licensed. NOTHINGBURGER is what was sold here.

There's a lot more I could say, but its already all so ridiculous ... I could dig back and eventually find exactly when I paid for the license, but before I put in the time to do so, why do you wish to know ? Is it an effective use of my time to go looking for the exact transaction ?

I tried to cover all of the questions, if I missed anything please ask me it again, it was a lot going on there and I'm just waking up now...

I have spoken to a lawyer about this and familiarized myself with the issues, here is how it works in this case...

Bustabit has code, if Bustabit sells me a copy of the code, much like a book, I can read it, but I can not run it or modify it and Bustabit has every legal right to tell me I need to cease doing anything besides reading it. I'm not saying that Bustabit would do this, but when a legal team looks things over, they look for any and all issues. This is a MAJOR issue.

Code with the addition of the GPL allows use of the code, but requires that if any modifications be done that the code is made available to everyone (Share new modifications on Github, etc).

Modifying the GPL is fine, if there is a written agreement. An agreement requires both parties to agree to the modifications. This is what you are partially claiming was done. It was not ... What was done, is as the bustabit.com/license.txt says was done... which is: "The following sites have purchased a non-distributable copy of the previous version of bustabit's source code..."

Which brings us to our actual state of affairs ... Bustabit sold licensing to be a licensed by them site (That is why Bustabit is listing the domain names of the sites on their website in bustabit.com/license.txt) ... The problem, is that no license exists, all that was given was code. Which legally, can only be read, not used in absence of a software license, this is due to it being the copyrighted works of Bustabit. A text file stating that a domain purchased code and is exempt is what is legally referenced as being a "nothingburger" ... Another thing the lawyer pointed out is that a domain is not a legal entity, a person or business needs to be at the other end of an agreement, a domain is simply an online presence. From that alone there is no effectuated agreement. But further, saying "here is the software licence that you are exempt from" is like doing 0 + 1 (GPL) = 1 (software license) ... 1 (software license) - 1 (requirements to adhere to license) = 0 (software license).

So, again, I will request the same as I stated from the beginning - Would you please allow the surrender (transfer) of my domain to Bustabit, and refund the purchase to my specified BTC address when I do so ? I never received what I paid for, and I am not happy about it.

The lawyer, which I have not yet hired, states the best way to go about this is to lodge a complaint (due to the amount being over $100K USD equivalent) with the FBI Cyber Crimes division, where a case will remain in effect until there is a resolution. I'm told this can take up to three years, and daily I'm watching Bustabit rake in far more the 2 BTC this is all about. If I go the route of reporting (which I will if you will not give me a refund for my purchase that I was never provided) then this will be going in as a complaint that it not only happened to me, but to a total 32 sites (64 BTC).

Please let me know at your earliest how you would like to proceed. If you will refund for the purchase please provide email address for me to surrender the domain to you at. I really hope we can get this dealt with today, not only to expedite things, but also because I don't like involving police/cops/government in anything I do. It isn't my intention to cause a major disruption or loss to anyone, but this can easily go that way if Bustabit wants to be that greedy over 2 Bitcoin. I'm not going to be letting it go, and in the event of a shutdown/seizure there could be losses suffered by those that will need to prove identities in order to release assets back to them. I hate the position that I'm being put in to with this, but I'm not the a-hole in the equation unless you force me to be. I really thought that my first post would have been enough to get this resolved... Sincerely hoping that this one is going to be enough. The lawyer wanted to proceed with it right away with lodging a complaint, but at the very least I found it right to first let the community know of my intentions. Which are:

TLDR; NOTICE TO ALL CONCERNED PARTIES (INVESTORS, ETC) - BUSTABIT WILL BE SUBJECT TO A FORMAL COMPLAINT WITH FBI CYBER CRIMES DIVISION IF THEY DO NOT REFUND ME FOR MY PURCHASE (PURCHASED LICENSE TO OPERATE THEIR CODE - LICENSE NEVER PROVIDED). I WILL UPDATE IT HAS BEEN RESOLVED SHOULD I BE PROVIDED A REFUND, I WILL LIKELY NOT BE REPOSTING IF THEY AGAIN REFUSE.