HungerCoins Invest: The odds are ever in your favor. - page 2.

OneEyed

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Quote from: iamtheone on September 14, 2012, 07:43:58 AM

Status update:

Amount received: 3,347.57 BTC
Amount paid: 3,359.32 BTC
Number of bets paid: 973

These figures does not include the old receiving address.

It would be interesting to plot the amount lent against the number of confirmations required. Having to wait for 6+ hours makes it much less exciting than it was at the beginning.

iamtheone

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Status update:

Amount received: 3,347.57 BTC
Amount paid: 3,359.32 BTC
Number of bets paid: 973

These figures does not include the old receiving address.

iamtheone

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I totally agree. I only meant that even you split into smaller bets, you can mitigate it by using electrum and control transaction fees. I was wrong to imply the odds would increase. It will still be the same. I misunderstood the post.)

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Yup, better

And you are right: splitting it in smaller values does not increase the avg percentage. It only reduces variance a bit.

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Quote from: Fortega on September 12, 2012, 09:43:52 AM

Quote from: OneEyed on September 12, 2012, 08:34:50 AM

Code:

20 * 1/65536 + 2 * 1/4096 + 0.2 * 1/256 + 0.02 * 1/16 + 0.002 * 61167/65536 = 112767/32768000 ~ 0.3441%

Should be

Code:

20 * 1/65536 + 2*15/65536 + 0.2*(256-16)*65536 + ...

You're right:

Code:

20 * 1/65536 + 2 * 15/65536 + 0.2 * 240/65536 + 0.02 * 3840/65536 + 0.002 * 61440/65536 = 3721/819200 ~ 0.4542%

Is it better?

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Quote from: OneEyed on September 12, 2012, 08:34:50 AM

Code:

20 * 1/65536 + 2 * 1/4096 + 0.2 * 1/256 + 0.02 * 1/16 + 0.002 * 61167/65536 = 112767/32768000 ~ 0.3441%

Should be

Code:

20 * 1/65536 + 2*15/65536 + 0.2*(256-16)*65536 + ...

OneEyed

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Quote from: iamtheone on September 12, 2012, 08:11:06 AM

Quote from: OneEyed on September 12, 2012, 07:31:31 AM

Quote from: Shermo on September 12, 2012, 07:21:48 AM

I guess you could increase your odds of a match by doing lots of smaller transactions, but then the 0.2% interest is pretty much eaten by transaction fees.

Also, it will be 2% of a smaller amount, and won't change anything on the long term.

Actually it will, just a little. Eventually you will hit 3 or 4 digits. It's just a matter of time

What do you mean? Isn't the expected value this one?

Code:

20 * 1/65536 + 2 * 1/4096 + 0.2 * 1/256 + 0.02 * 1/16 + 0.002 * 61167/65536 = 112767/32768000 ~ 0.3441%

How would splitting into smaller amount help at increasing the expected value?

iamtheone

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Quote from: OneEyed on September 12, 2012, 07:31:31 AM

Quote from: Shermo on September 12, 2012, 07:21:48 AM

I guess you could increase your odds of a match by doing lots of smaller transactions, but then the 0.2% interest is pretty much eaten by transaction fees.

Also, it will be 2% of a smaller amount, and won't change anything on the long term.

Actually it will, just a little. Eventually you will hit 3 or 4 digits. It's just a matter of time

And you can use electrum and lessen the transaction fees.

Shermo

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Quote from: OneEyed on September 12, 2012, 07:31:31 AM

Also, it will be 2% of a smaller amount, and won't change anything on the long term.

Thats also true, hence why I've just been rolling my small gambling pot through it a couple times a day and eventually hit a match after a few days

miln40

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Ooooh, it's from Hunger Games, this thing with the odds! It was really ringing a bell in my mind =]

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Quote from: Shermo on September 12, 2012, 07:21:48 AM

I guess you could increase your odds of a match by doing lots of smaller transactions, but then the 0.2% interest is pretty much eaten by transaction fees.

Also, it will be 2% of a smaller amount, and won't change anything on the long term.

Shermo

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I'd have to check when I get home, but I think around 12 times? So I guess roughly close to the odds 1/16

I guess you could increase your odds of a match by doing lots of smaller transactions, but then the 0.2% interest is pretty much eaten by transaction fees.

iamtheone

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Quote from: Shermo on September 11, 2012, 05:28:37 PM

Got my first match, only the last character though so 2% payback

Payment:
https://blockchain.info/tx/a9ec05de08c2748579f98ffb80c34e8527e627191bdb96726b6abdd2cf7e3798

Return:
https://blockchain.info/tx/f65baa369911865d8341f418c13b1fbac737aac99577318cd8e6ada745552a70

Nice

How many times you bet before getting it?

Shermo

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Got my first match, only the last character though so 2% payback

Payment:
https://blockchain.info/tx/a9ec05de08c2748579f98ffb80c34e8527e627191bdb96726b6abdd2cf7e3798

Return:
https://blockchain.info/tx/f65baa369911865d8341f418c13b1fbac737aac99577318cd8e6ada745552a70

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Quote from: JoelKatz on September 10, 2012, 12:03:26 AM

Quote from: Zillions on September 09, 2012, 11:25:32 PM

Whoa! Can anyone explain to me what happened in this transacion I only sent 0.25BTC
https://blockchain.info/tx/1188ffc9c821717fcd5dd2e5c71c7e51ea3dd155e0686d11cb566b1b17cb2f90
Looks like HungerCoins just got a spitload of donations.

It looks like your client was cleverly using a transaction it was making anyway as a free opportunity to consolidate a bunch of small inputs it had lying around into a single, larger output, thus reducing the cost of your future transactions.

Armory does that too, although if I remember the code correctly it limits itself to 5 inputs. Since the input addresses are all the same, this does not taint any address more than would have been with the original transaction.

miln40

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Worked fine for my 1 BTC with transactions on time.

Zillions

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Quote from: dooglus on September 10, 2012, 02:07:21 AM

It also looks like your client paid less than the minimum standard fee. What client did you use?

blockchain.info/wallet

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Quote from: JoelKatz on September 10, 2012, 12:03:26 AM

Quote from: Zillions on September 09, 2012, 11:25:32 PM

Whoa! Can anyone explain to me what happened in this transacion I only sent 0.25BTC
https://blockchain.info/tx/1188ffc9c821717fcd5dd2e5c71c7e51ea3dd155e0686d11cb566b1b17cb2f90
Looks like HungerCoins just got a spitload of donations.

It looks like your client was cleverly using a transaction it was making anyway as a free opportunity to consolidate a bunch of small inputs it had lying around into a single, larger output, thus reducing the cost of your future transactions.

It also looks like your client paid less than the minimum standard fee. What client did you use?

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Quote from: Zillions on September 09, 2012, 11:25:32 PM

Whoa! Can anyone explain to me what happened in this transacion I only sent 0.25BTC
https://blockchain.info/tx/1188ffc9c821717fcd5dd2e5c71c7e51ea3dd155e0686d11cb566b1b17cb2f90
Looks like HungerCoins just got a spitload of donations.

It looks like your client was cleverly using a transaction it was making anyway as a free opportunity to consolidate a bunch of small inputs it had lying around into a single, larger output, thus reducing the cost of your future transactions.

Zillions

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Whoa! Can anyone explain to me what happened in this transacion I only sent 0.25BTC
https://blockchain.info/tx/1188ffc9c821717fcd5dd2e5c71c7e51ea3dd155e0686d11cb566b1b17cb2f90
Looks like HungerCoins just got a spitload of donations.

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