Topic: [CLOSED] S.DICE - SatoshiDICE 100% Dividend-Paying Asset on MPEx - page 28. (Read 316363 times)

I am wondering, what stage you guys are in collectively - looking at the Kübler-Ross model.
I think you guys are past the Anger stage (remember the whale song, uptick in price, followed by share dumping from the owner?).
Can this be some type of bargain phase, with a twits of "The idea that saves this train wreck... pleas!"?

OMG! I know! All you have to do is figure out, how to make this game exiting... easy

Just like, http://bitcoinity.org/markets

Check the top left.

They did an auction for those advertising rights there. For a Month with the site owner having the final decision of if the winning bidder was advertising an appropriate site my the owners definition. https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoinity-hosting-sponsoring-197985 (The winner payed ~12 btc to have their link for a month.)

Don't be so naive, you would get A LOT of interest for a auction on being the sole SD temp sponsor. (even though I would suggest displaying 5-8 links of advertisers)

This would be the easiest imaginable implementation to the website 'OHNOES A FEW HREF TAGS!' While achieving a benefit to all parties involved.
 BTC = more business opportunities to reach higher exposure leads to more successful business
SD = profit and the warm fuzzy feeling of helping the rest of the btc community.
Advertiser = exposure and players = A neutral / slight benefit from using a site that is generating profit external to the gambling ... A simple unobtrusive link isn't going to hinder users and more than the current shit storm of addresses and numerical stats crudely dumped on the screen.

You don't need an advertising network...That's an absurd reason to discount this.

I'm honestly shocked that the idea is meeting any resistance at all... Do you not understand why this is obvious step while we're at this stage of BTC adoption?

But please, I'm keen to hear any valid and thought out criticisms.

There's no good bitcoin advertising network, and it's going to be a hassle filtering out competitor's advertisements anyways. Not sure if AdSense and etc will carry gambling sites.

Yea exactly, I'm referring to a simple ad space on SD so their popularity can both help other Bitcoin business while also giving a stream of revenue. In most cases I dislike advertising, but this in particular is a step forward in legitimising all aspects of of the Bitcoin community.

On the note of SDice advertising themselves...I'd say they should roll out some features worth advertising before we start seeing banners saying;

 "Heyy come to SDice, we have this one game that's really out dated copied everywhere and comparatively takes ages to know if you win or lose...please for the love of god don't find out about any of our competition because the only thing we have on them is larger capital so you can make a larger bet here..It won't be any more fun though"

And honestly with the way things seem to be handled in the past few weeks here that's a not far of accurate advertisement they'd choose.

I think they meant that there won´t be ads on the site.
Not that they won´t advertise.
//DeaDTerra

Yes, could you please clarify about the advertising plan. Based on previous postings, the IPO proceeds have been sequestered for advertising but are awaiting the gambling license before proceeding. The $400k+, based on current exchange rates, of advertising spend will help raise significant awareness for Satoshi Dice and Bitcoin.

For example, from the IPO prospectus it states:

Care to elaborate on why ads will never be implimented? I think I've made quite a few fair points as to why they would be a wise move at this stage of Bitcoin development in total. It would help the entire cause.

Thank you for your feedback.
We are currently working on the first three points,
Session-based betting enables the user to bet without having to send the Bitcoin for each bet through the blockchain, this allows faster betting and lower minimum amount.
Friendlier UI and new games are on our list of things to do.
Chat feature will probably be implemented sometime in the future.
Ads however will never be integrated

Best Regards
The spirit of Satoshi

It's pretty obvious that SD needs a instant account based system (as another option) pretty soon.

There's always going to be the people sending coins to SD because they have it in the addressbook, but SD to the average user has being stagnant for months while competitors have advantages like instant results (one of the prime attractions of SD, before people learned to double spend) with the same provably fairness. It's only a matter of time before those services are as regarded as reputable as satoshidice, and blocking US players certainly does not help with growth.

SD has lost some people's business or chunks of it for sure.  Some of the alternatives have several advantages, and are certainly not designed worse than SD.  SD has a lot of momentum and is still running on the fact that it's 'The SD'.

And that's pretty much exactly what it'd be worth.

Again and again this has to be repeated: it's not the site, stupid. Go make a facebook for free, it's not that hard and it won't matter any more than the previous Winkleloss-backed project mattered.

No idea why this is so hard, but anyway.

Less than 2 weeks away.

"2 weeks" is a copyright of the Butterfly Labs Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

Being serious or rtying to be funny? From where do you source this info?

I can't decide which is longer (less reliable):

BFL time or Valve Time.

Aren't they all?

Is that a BFL 2 weeks?

Expect delivery in 2 weeks.

Has Eric got a plan? where is SD going? are we just waiting to be overtakes by a competitor?
I don't expect details that would compromise the competitive advantage, but a little information would be helpful!

Hypothetical situation...

EV adds the option to play SD with Litecoins. In the first month, the site makes a profit of 40,000 LTC...but what does Erik do with it?

Suppose he decides he likes Bitcoin a bit better and wants to convert the LTC profit to BTC. Do you really think the Litecoin markets can handle a dump of 40,000 coins at one time? [HINT: The answer is 'no'] ..or what if Erik becomes a bit nefarious? The amount of Litecoins he'd have on hand would surely be enough to manipulate the market at any time given LTC volumes aren't nearly that much compared to Bitcoin.

Introducing exchange risk into your business is a terrible idea.