What gives?
Apparently referral gains and losses are no longer meant to show up immediately in your balance.
I reported yesterday that you could bet with a positive expectation by referring yourself from an account with an empty balance, and so they stopped auto-crediting referral payments.
Here's the trick:
If you lose, you get 10% back in your other account, and if you win the empty account goes negative and so you just abandon it and make a new one.
That gives you a (10/2)-1.9 = 3.1% expected positive return on your 50% bets.
I don't know what they plan to do to mitigate that, but it seems to me like the referral program is pretty much broken. I would be scared to post a referral link online because I might accidentally refer hufflepuff (he won 2000 BTC from PD recently - that would have cost me 200 BTC if I had referred him under the SD scheme).
Another way of thinking about it: If you refer 1000 players, by for example, owning bitcointalk.org or any other big website out there. Then you probably won't ditch your affiliate account because some individual wins a lump sum of money. Since you will have so many players under your belt. The affiliate earnings will end up in the positive sooner or later (if you have sent a large number of players)
Sure. Someone might win 2000 coins if our bankroll would allow it. Right now it doesn't support a 2000 BTC bet so its not possible. Hypothetically lets say we had a bankroll supporting a 2000BTC bet on 50/50 chance. Imagine your affiliate earnings if the player looses the bet. On that particular bet, you would get a huge reward risking 0 BTC.
jxSpringe, thanks for testing our affiliate system.
Your affiliate earnings will be payed out the week after the end of each month. Sorry for the inconvinience.
We will allow real-time affiliate earnings to special manually reviewed affilaites. The primary reason for the affiliate program existence, is to give people and entities the oppertunity to be part of satoshidices
success, earning a lifetime revenue share split on the edge. But in your case, using it to get a rabate on the edge - is also fine. You will be payed, and your earnings are tracked. Always will be.
(it wont be for someone explioting the affiliate program by creating several accounts to get a positive edge)
As dooglus mentioned, if someone would only refer one player, and this player wins 2000 BTC - The affiliate account will end up with negative balance. But if you have sent a lot of players, eventually it will get positive earnings.