Topic: Play BlackJack with Bitcoins! - page 5. (Read 15992 times)

Ok, thanks for the response.
Now I won't press hit just for that last 5th card in despiration

I'll try to get some free time next week, so maybe then. Otherwise it should be done the week after. I just realize that without the splitting the odds are better for the bank than they should. I'll try to compensate for this with some new bonus deposit promotion (giving away all the few coins I've made so far)!

Thanks for the hint! I've implemented that now, we'll see if it works as good for me as it does for you

I don't want to show the current points to make it more real (one commenter in this thread even mentioned specifically that he likes it cause of that). When playing Blackjack on the PC I'm always annoyed by the point displays.

Split will come "soon", and AJAX after the other interesting features (as it's just eye candy IMHO).

Surrender? Why would you do that? You can just "Stay" and still have a chance of winning. Or would "Surrender" give back (some of) your money?

surrender option would be nice too.

great start! things should be easy to implement:
- refresh cards through ajax
- show current player's and dealer's points

probably, not so easy to implement:
- split button

My experience with bitcoind has been that asking for the address of an account seems to hang if no getnewaddress has been done lately for any account.

Thus I created an account named "throwaways" and do a getnewaddress for that "throwawats" account pretty much every time I am thinking of asking for any account's address. That seemed to make the hanging/freezing go away.

I have not tested it to death though to make sure the problem really has totally utterly gone away.

I actually don't even bother using getnewaddress for any other account, since accounts that do not yet have an address seem to have one created for them anyway by the getaddress routine used to get their already existing address.

-MarkM-

So, no point me upgrading my crash-prone 0.3.20 yet.

As soon as I saw it I made sure my bets were even. I know of 2, and maybe 1 or 2 that I missed before I saw it, no biggie though. Great work so far!

Any idea what the time frame for adding splitting to the game is? I was begging for a split button more than once when I started off with a pair of A's or 8's vs a dealer bust card.

Wow, quite some feedback here. Many thanks you're really awesome!!

That's why the minimum bet is 0.02 (but I didn't think of the BlackJack 2.5 win, whoops!). I will soon put a new version online where I do the calculations with 3 decimal places. Then the minimum bet will be just 0.01, and you won't lose half a bitcent. Anyway all the games are recorded so once I put this version up I will recalculate so you get you 0.005 back (or more if this situation happened more often). Thanks for noticing!

Again problems with bitcoind I detect when it crashes and restart it immediately, but unfortunately sometimes it just gets stalled which I cannot detect easily. Thus I restart it every 60 minutes. So for now sometimes this error may occur but it should not last longer than an hour. Sorry for the inconvenience, it's quite a bummer for me that I hope to be able to fix soon

One confirmation is enough. From time to time I manually accept transactions without confirmation if they are small and seem legit.

Right now this site uses European BlackJack rules where there is not Five Card Charlie rule. I plan to implement other rules as well, though that may take a bit of time.

If you send more the transaction is likely to be accepted faster by the bitcoin network (it's a "problem" with the network, not with my site). Anyhow I've manually accepted your transaction even though it's still unconfirmed. I hope that I will eventually really get your coins

Thanks, that's a good idea and way better than my current approach (use local rand() if random.org doesn't work). I will implement it in the next version. Thanks again!

Not sure if you've fixed this already, but perhaps you could keep a buffer of random data and have some job refill that buffer periodically/when it gets low.

I have .02 BTC stuck with 0 confirmations for about 6 hrs now on the way. maybe i shouldve sent more

Well, the mybitcoin payment finally made it! It took over 6 hours!

I have played about 20 hands, betting the minimum 0.02 BTC and am up by 0.04 BTC.
Not to bad considering I have never played blackjack before and am still learning the game.

I sent another small payment, this time from the bitcoin client on my computer with a 0.01 fee.
This payment got credited to my account within about 5 minutes (after 1 confirmation).

According to bitcoincharts.com, the first payment sent from mybitcoin.com is still stuck in unconfirmed status.
Is there an option to add a transaction fee when using a mybitcoin account?

I don't know how many confirmations it has. I sent the payment from a mybitcoin account.
3 hours and 45 minutes and still nothing!!

Just my two cents - it's great, but no five card charlie. Everything else has worked fine so far though!

Look for how many confirmations you have on the transaction. I think it needs at least 5 before funds are deposited.

How long does it take for funds to be credited to my account?
I sent a payment to the address it gave me over an hour ago and still nothing in my account! 

Ok, site is working now. I finally got an address to deposit some bitcoins.

Just checked the client on testnet, you can now receive 1 satoshi 
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Site seems to be down.
I just signed up for a new account and now I get the following error:


Edit: Refreshing the play page is very slow. It takes about 1 minute and then I get either the SQL ERROR page or the play page with a blank bitcoin deposit address.

Not yet apparently.