It is a gambling site?
Edit: How do we know the site operator is not cheating since he can see the wagers?
Yes in a sense this is gambling, as the person with the highest bid at the end of the auction wins and everyone else loses. Hence there's always a risk involved with making a bid.
In what sense are you meaning? The operator can see the wagers but so can everyone else, the highest bid is always displayed, so is the amount of BTC, the price for this BTC and the discount.
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I do not fully understand how this works. I did not know we could see the highest bid.
Since we can all see the highest bid, what is stopping people from bidding higher?
Thank you.
The auctions only last something like 50-500 seconds. Someone can bid higher, but then they risk someone bidding higher than them. It is a gambling site, effectively - or a kind of penny auction, depending if you consider the two different. You're betting nobody else will bid higher than you, essentially.
Highest bid is displayed at the bottom-right of the screen once you're logged in.
Okay, I understand the gambling part and suspect bots will get in on this sooner or later (if it works the way I assume it does).
However what does arb have to do with this?
Thanks
The arbitrage system is what enables us to bid off cheap Bitcoins, By buying and selling Bitcoin on different exchanges we can offer cheaper Bitcoin which then people can bid on.
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Do you personally fully understand how this arb technically works or is this just what you were told? In my mind some red flags are being raised. It sounds like "magic" from the limited information I know about it.
I did not code this bot by my self neither the system, I was not the one with the idea. But I do know how arbitrage bots work (I have one myself) and I do know how penny auctions work, so I see how the idea could be formed and I know how it can be executed using ZipConf. But I am not the man with the real details.
From what I know when you deposit the Bitcoins enter the ZipConf system, which is connected to the exchange a arbitrage bot is connected to this system and uses the funds to find good deal between the exchanged to buy "cheaper" bitcoins then on other exchanges. As we then can buy Bitcoins at a discounted rate we can also sell them of at a discounted rate on BitcoinRebate, ofc the dicount is not only from the arbitrage trading as the profit from arbitrage is currently very limited, we also rely on the bid amount from the losers to keep the platform profitable.
The man with the Idea JRO, will soon wake up xD, he's the guy that has the brain that you should be poking
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