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Topic: [TAABL] The original Bitcoin lottery is back... (Read 3895 times)

legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
It's going up, 0.30 BTC now
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
There's almost 0.25 BTC up for grabs in BTC's Pick4 at TAABL right now!
hero member
Activity: 500
Merit: 501
http://digitalcoin.org/
Damn. Should check my wallet more often because I think I'm that someone.

Just sent more bets.

It's nice to win, but would be awesome to have more players. Come on folks, place your bets and take my BTC.

TT
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
Almost 0.15 BTC on the Pick 4...

And... it's gone. Congrats to the winner! There's still very little volume around TAABL but slowly and surely someone's getting the higher hand (and it isn't me, honest Smiley ).
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
Almost 0.15 BTC on the Pick 4...
hero member
Activity: 500
Merit: 501
http://digitalcoin.org/
Awesome. Yes, looks like everything is back to normal now. Cool. Got new bets on Pick 2 and Pick 3 now.

TT
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
Tsquared: Yes, something was wrong. The web frontend and the processing system are separate for security and the backend side experienced a bunch of network outages from late last night to this morning (UTC).

But all bets were processed and handled and the web UI is once again linked to the processing side of things.
hero member
Activity: 500
Merit: 501
http://digitalcoin.org/
Thinking something isn't working right, or I'm missing something.

Sent .05 BTC bets on each game last night. I got the 5502 SAT from Pick 2, and won the Pick 3, receiving .099 BTC. Everything seems to be working, but none of this is reflected on the website and it still reflects only your initial bets.

TT
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
I have now seeded all BTC games again.

Good luck!
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
We are back!

And not a moment too soon, this little software bug fix turned into a full blown hardware update due to some unexpected failures... But we're back and better than before underneath the hood.

All running games have been matched against all blocks that passed since we went down, and of course all of them ended. I'm pleased to say I didn't win everything Smiley

Thanks for everyone's patience, and let the betting begin... again!

Best of luck to all.
hero member
Activity: 500
Merit: 501
http://digitalcoin.org/
Thanks for the update.
hero member
Activity: 868
Merit: 1000
Having trouble nelisky?

Not a big deal, just wondering.

TT

Oh where to start... We're really close but we've had a few mishaps, including failed hardware in the process. This has been the most ridiculous database resync I've ever experienced, ever!

So close now...

I have just seen this and will be making a few bets when you get back on track so i will keep an eye out, good to see you are doing that as we speak so won't be long before i can do it. Unlucky on the mishaps am sure you will sort them soon enough.

Great to see a legendary member creating a game it will become popular in time most of the other games out can be very boring except poker so even if it is not a lot i will be making bets.

Good luck  Cool
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
Having trouble nelisky?

Not a big deal, just wondering.

TT

Oh where to start... We're really close but we've had a few mishaps, including failed hardware in the process. This has been the most ridiculous database resync I've ever experienced, ever!

So close now...
hero member
Activity: 500
Merit: 501
http://digitalcoin.org/
Having trouble nelisky?

Not a big deal, just wondering.

TT
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
Everything is still in full lock down mode, apologies to everyone. The time scale involved forced me into hardware and system upgrades, and damn, the bitcoin blockchain is huge!

Hopefully this resync will complete tomorrow, but since my estimates have failed miserably thus far I'll just have to ask for a bit more patience. The problem is that the further we go into the blockchain, the more transactions there are to process which basically means my time estimation was biased towards smaller blocks of data. And we are supporting 5 different blockchains...

I will let everyone know once we return to normality, and again sorry for this mishap.
hero member
Activity: 500
Merit: 501
http://digitalcoin.org/
Just my luck, I just sent a small bet, hahaha. I can totally understand your reasoning though. Good luck!

Never worry! It will be processed as if nothing had happened, only a bit later. Good luck!

So is everything working normally nelisky?  No hits on any of the games in the last couple days, but it looks like that's because mine is the only bet on the Pick 2, and a game won't have a winner unless there's at least 2 players, right?  And the Pick 3 and Pick 4 because there just hasn't been a block with the correct last 3 or 4 characters?

TT
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
Just my luck, I just sent a small bet, hahaha. I can totally understand your reasoning though. Good luck!

Never worry! It will be processed as if nothing had happened, only a bit later. Good luck!
copper member
Activity: 3948
Merit: 2201
Verified awesomeness ✔
Unfortunately I just found a bug in our chain processing code (not the game code, but the one that stores all the blockchain data for use in our multiple services).

Nothing really major but still needs to be fixed asap, and given the volume of information it is going to take a few hours to do. All bets will be processed once that's done.

Sorry about that, but it really must be done now.
Just my luck, I just sent a small bet, hahaha. I can totally understand your reasoning though. Good luck!
legendary
Activity: 1540
Merit: 1002
Unfortunately I just found a bug in our chain processing code (not the game code, but the one that stores all the blockchain data for use in our multiple services).

Nothing really major but still needs to be fixed asap, and given the volume of information it is going to take a few hours to do. All bets will be processed once that's done.

Sorry about that, but it really must be done now.
hero member
Activity: 500
Merit: 501
http://digitalcoin.org/
No lack of disclosure with TAABL, nelisky. Everything about it is an open book and it has a great history. I just finished reading the introductory thread from 2010, and it's really interesting to see how this game came to be. It's a good read, even just to skim over, because it brings you back to a different time in Bitcoin history. Crazy seeing you guys talking about betting hundreds of BTC, and this one: https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.17739 where you say "just a quick note that someone just won the 2250 BTC pot". That's great stuff!

I look forward to seeing your dice game.

TT
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