Satoshi Auction review1. The first impression the website offered me was that it looks too simplistic, like it was created by a beginner web designer. It's simply plain text, black on white, with no animation, nothing fancy, nothing to entertain the users.
2. The site is so simplistic that it doesn't even have a Home button. There are also some sections which are missing but they are common sense for any other website. Among others, there are no "Contact", "Terms & Conditions", "Privacy", "Disclaimer" sections. Social media links are not a must, but many websites add them as well.
3. The website is localized only in English.
4. The "Yin & Yang" picture from the top of "home" page redirects to
https://decision.casino/ and there are listed Satoshi Auction and Coinballer websites. However, there is no hint for the users to click on that "Yin & Yang" picture and, furthermore, there is no information for the users about the connection between Satoshi Auction and Coinballer. A new user will ask this: (1) What is Coinballer?; (2) Why are those two websites shown if I clock the "Yin & Yang" picture -- what's the purpose of this page?
5. The website works fine with Tor, which represents a plus.
6. The most important issue, from my perspective, is that
I have no idea about what kind of game this is nor how to play it, nor what I may win & lose. I just accessed the site and I see this:
Welcome to Satoshi Auction.
Payout will be returned to the address that sent the maximum bid. Please ensure you make a bid from an address you control.
Please allow 5 confirmations before your transaction will appear on the site.
Welcome to Satoshi Auction. -- okay, thank you for welcoming me. But now what? What website is this? What am I doing here? What is being auctioned? What's the purpose of the website?
Instead of finding an answer to
any of the above questions, after the welcome message I see this:
Payout will be returned to the address that sent the maximum bid. Please ensure you make a bid from an address you control.. What payout? Address that sent maximum bid
for what? Make a bid from an address you control --
how? And bid on what?
By pure chance, I accessed also Coinballer website and there I saw, on "home" page, that there is a "New game" button. Satoshi Auction does not even have this button.
The next logic step was to access "Rules" section. But here I stumbled again on some text lines which raised me same questions.
Satoshi Auction is a form of penny-auction.
In a penny auction, each bid is paid for in advance, and there are no returns.
The prize starts off as 10k satoshis.
Anybody can make a bid for the prize, at any time.
98% of each bid is added to the prize.
The auction ends when 144 bitcoin blocks have passed without a bid. This will take appoximately one day.
The participant who has made the maximum bid wins the prize.
In the case of a tie, funds are distributed equally to the winning bidders and any fractional remainder is left with the host.
Bids that are received after the end of an auction are sent back to the address that sent them, minus an 0.0001 BTC transaction fee.
Satoshi Auction is a form of penny-auction. -- But what is a penny auction, first of all? I believe there should be a link describing what this kind of auction represents.
In a penny auction, each bid is paid for in advance, and there are no returns. -- This line explains how such auction works, but not
what it is.
The prize starts off as 10k satoshis. -- The prize
for what?
Anybody can make a bid for the prize, at any time. -- Bidding
on what?
This will take appoximately one day. -- This sentence has a typo: it should be written "approximately" instead of "appoximately".
Having in mind that, so far, I could not understand what kind of game this is, I returned to the forum, where I found a few more details, but far from clearing things up for me. However,
I have the impression that, for fully understanding the website / game, the user is required to read everything also on the forum, in order to understand better. This should not happen; all information should be present on the website.
So I returned to the website. I can also see "Current auctions" and "Past auctions". However, there is no indication on
what exactly was auctioned.
I finally access "About" section.
The source code for this host is open source and we are hosted by Google Cloud. -- Who is "
we"? We who?
The Satoshi Auction concept is based on the game of Coinballer. -- Obviously, since the user does not understand anything from this website, he will click on "Coinballer" as, maybe, he will find there some more information about the purpose of this website. But Coinballer contains also no detail and looks like a mirror of Satoshi Auction. This try to understand the website / game is another dead end.
There is a thread about this site on bitcointalk.org. -- As I said above, users should not have to access the forum for properly understanding how the game works. This line should be replaced with something like "For more details, click
here", and the term "here" should have a hyperlink inserted on it redirecting the user to a page containing a
proper description.
I will end here this feedback, but I will come back in case I will find any other bug on the website or in case I'll have more suggestions. I hope this helps.