Topic: SatoshiDICE hit 1,000,000 bets today (Read 5203 times)

They do, but, i think a lot of the popularity is in the instant response and the bot-ability of it, my bot was a constant adrenaline generator lol (of course it lost in the end, i was expecting it too, interesting to see how many losses in a row will eventually come with enough monkey's on typewriters)

Why can't they publish the losses on their website?

Sending a loss would mean people know the difference between losing and dice lag at least

I'm not educated on this. Is there a reason why they cannot simply not pay BTC during a loss?

gmaxwell already made a basic patch, but it wasn't good for privacy, so it's not ready yet.

Regardless, that does not fix all the implementations in the field now, nor does it fix non-Satoshi clients such as MtGox etc.

Because the network must always track every unspent coin, creating tons of difficult-to-spend coins is network unfriendly.

it is a little bit offtopic, but may i suggest that if that becomes a concern - the bitcoin client just merges the output with a regular transaction just for defragmenting reasons? as a coin selection algorithm it could always pick the smallest outputs first for example. obviously there could be multiple (configurable) coin selectors, with different focus. privacy, output minimisation, transaction size/fee minimisation..

Can you fix the SatoshiDICE software to stop generating a ton of tiny outputs, in the event of a loss?  One of the long term drains on resources is tracking unspent coins -- and SD creates 0.00000001 outputs for losing bets.  We have to individually track each one of those outputs until it is spent.  Of course, it is difficult for users to find ways to spend 0.00000001 BTC, so the obvious database bloat for each bitcoin user results...

That goes without saying

I'm a software developer, living in Vegas... There are plenty of smart people who enjoy a little negative expectation gambling. I stick to poker (the real kind - against other humans) personally, but people get a kick out of the variance of gambling that's worth the house rake (which is under 4% for a lot of Vegas slot machines, btw; and Blackjack, playing a well-known basic-strategy is often as low as 1.5%).

SatoshiDice is pretty cool (though I haven't personally played).... Thanks for the explanation, S. Gornick...very interesting.

And congrats to the operators on the 1M transactions.

Congrats!!! Never used it yet but tempted. Very jealous tho!

I am surprised that SatoshiDice took off -- people who are smart enough to understand cryptology and coding dice bots not understand the logical end of a martingale system?

congrats on the #1 hit. I'm sure the price increase has plenty to do with every successful application such as satoshi dice, and we all should be thankful.

all hail satoshi thank you for increasing the blockchain size etc etc

It isn't just the power of bitcoin, it is the power of cryptography.  The problem that SatoshiDICE solves is there was no previous easy to use online wagering service that is not only provably fair but gives an especially high payout compared to other online wagering services.  

SatoshiDICE isn't the first to be provably fair though.  

BitLotto was among the first to use the transaction hash in the blockchain as the value that determines whether the bet wins or not.  

What SatoshiDICE did different though was it figured out how to do instant payouts.  Because the payout uses for the transaction's input the wager transaction itself, there is no risk of paying out using funds that won't confirm.   That was quite an innovation and now one million wagers later, it has proven its value.

There are a couple other "provably fair" wagering systems (including bitZino), but they don't all use a blockchain transaction hash so it is harder to verify.  With SatoshiDICE, I can still go in a year from now for instance and use the blockchain plus the hash keys file to verify that every single wager ever made to SatoshiDICE was indeed processed properly as far as win/loss status and verify that the payouts were successfully sent.

Disruptive innovations are defined as being at least ten times better than existing solutions.  With a 1.5% house advantage versus 4% to 8% or more for Vegas casinos, SatoshiDICE is pretty close to qualifying as one.

Pretty amazing achievement, now lets go for 5,000,000 lol.

i really had not anticipated this volume and i am suprised you managed to scale the software, the confirmations, the crypto etc. good job.

congratulations! i'd say celebrate. your earnings are well deserved and i hope you will invest them into more bitcoin projects

If you're interested in Satoshi Dice be sure to check out this thread https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/satoshi-dice-statistical-analysis-80312 . Doogius has done an excellent job keeping it updated and posting analysis of the blockchain.

I'm not tempted as I'm not in a cubicle but it must be awful for those that feel like rolling the dice when they come back from the toilet. And not only that but you don't even have to visit some gambling site. Just your wallet.

Which reminds me of the Dice Man books.

Wow. That's a big jump from a week or two back when I saw only 2200 BTC.
Imagine if you could inspect a Vegas gambling house's books...

Wow so avg. bet is more like BTC0.3

The worst (best?) thing about these gambling services are that they are right on your computer all the time.

Its like having a roulette table, blackjack table and lottery linked to your bank account and set up at your office desk 24/7!

rofl, so sometimes you "think, gee I'd love to buy those socks, but it'll be like 300 bytes..."