Didn't you get that money by stealing it from one of your players?
I don't think that's a fair assessment. As I recall (my memory might be off) is he had a high house edge casino where the user is trying to X bitcoin. There's two ways to structure it: The first is the obvious: the user does a high edge bet where the user was trying to win X bitcoin.
The second way is a bit more clever, you send a low-as-possible-edge bet to moneypot where the user is trying to win (X+N) and then if the user wins, "force tip" the N to the casino owner.
From a players perspective both ways of doing it are identical, so the player isn't getting cheated. (The extra money actually comes from screwing with the commissions that MP charges, and minimizing the "fat" on the bet for investors).
please let me explain
we had no high House Edge Casino but we had a Lottery game with an House Edge of 9.22%
all details and Rules were clearly published as it was when you were the owner
we published the rules and we never stole any coins
we took 10% from the Winner Jackpot for chat rain and our players were very happy with that because most JP winners didnt give a lot chat rain and a very good example is the big winner who gave 0.25 BTC for chat rain and we gave 8 BTC chat rain
we took 10% from the Winner Jackpot for the Affiliates
check those postings
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14590590https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.14592338at the start we had a nice additional price for the JP Winner and gave them RBIES because we thought MP will implement RBIES (but they didnt and we stopped this price promo)
Back when I created/ran MP, I didn't really care because I never accepted any bets that weren't kelly compliant so it was still advantageous to investors; so really the worst case is just that I didn't make commissions, but considering the low volume that JPR did it wasn't an issue.
The real problem though was with some of the later changes under the new ownership, they would accept bets up to a 3.33x kelly (irrc?). For anyone not familiar with the kelly stuff, any bet >2x kelly is actively harmful for investors (at least in terms of expected br growth). So the only way this is really sane is if you expect very little high kelly bets, and get a lot of extra publicity due to it (e.g. the max profit is higher). But the problem with JPRs style bets, is he effectively turned "good bets" into "bad bets" now.
please let me also explain here
very soon after you sold MP to new owners it was clear that they had no clue about Kelly Criterion but they didnt admit it even till today.( IMHO you never should have sold MP to this group because you promised to check the new buyer inside out and you should have understand that they have no clue because they are gamblers and even didnt have the money and needed to borrow the money to buy MP. (yes I know you can do whatever you like with your property)
our Lottery had a House Edge of 9.22%
let me ask you how much could a player win max at a game with 9.22% HE with a 1000 bits bet in case you have 1x kelly and 1000 BTC Bank Roll?
maybe you mistakenly thought we offered the plinko with a risk of 85% of the BR and you wrote somewhere that it is ok with Kelly ( please correct me if I am wrong but I can try to search for the plinko discussion)
I would say that you are wrong by saying
the problem with JPRs style bets, is he effectively turned "good bets" into "bad bets" now.As I've mentioned a few times, I think the real fix was to make sure that the site never accepted >1x kelly bets and not muck around with any bandaid solutions. Although it definitely might make sense to stop JPRs "force tip" style of bets, because it's confusing to users and it's obviously intended to subverts the commission structure.
agree with band aid solutions but thats only because MP owners dont know the KC and are looking for quick profit (their own profit)
they never should stop the forced tipping and never take off the faucet and it was never intended to subvert the commission structure. please remember that we handled it this way from the start when MP was in your hands.
now I have a chance to ask you and MP owners who received the about 8 BTC accumulated Jackpot amount in our Racer game? yes about 8 BTC! where are those? you sold MP to the new owners but did you give them the about 6 BTC accumulated Jackpot amount (the correct amount could be checked)? because lets assume the 2 big players in those times could have hit the Jackpot and the new owners would need to pay out. that means that if you didnt give this sum over to new owners the Investors or the new owners would have to pay out of their pocket and that would not have been fair.
now the question for the new MP owners: as the Jackpot accumulated later to about 8 BTC with the help of the big players Molloype and Jseonline and we closed the app not long ago I am asking where are those 8 BTC? did you keep those 8 BTC?
So anyway, I don't think it's fair to call JPR a thief. But he's sure annoying as fuck, and should move on with his life.
And regarding the thread, it's been >6 months since MP promised to pay back investors. I think the absolute least they could do is publish some pretty firm numbers to the people involved of how much they're going to pay them and in what sort of time frame. I understand it might take a few weeks, but it's now been months. If I held such a debt and made such promises, I would consider it my top priority.
I am not annoying as fuck but all the sig spammers that follow you and the new MP owners deep in your A**
I didnt tell you what to do with your life so please dont tell me what to do. I will defend myself against anyone and you can spare your comments like annoying as fuck or toxic because it fits to you or did you forget when you gave BetterBets the preferred treatment and even loans or you defended the racist @yahoo without knowing the reason of the dispute? you guys are toxic and not me. or do you think it will help Dogedigital to write that I spread FUD and he is only saying this because he doesnt want to full fill his promise he gave to the Investors long ago. you (RHavar) know very well that I am right and sure I am annoying because I dont let the new MP owners spread their FUD and false promises.
anyway thx for the posting and to give me the chance to answer and to give my point of view