Topic: [UPDATE] SatoshiDICE Android and Desktop Apps Open Beta v1.1 - page 3. (Read 6526 times)

Just guessing, but:

Unintentional double-spends cause problems for SDICE's wallet handling.  They pay out winners with losers' bets.  If the losing bets never confirm then the payouts that use those bets never confirm either.  Incoming bets are much more likely to confirm if the inputs of those bets are already confirmed.

That's a very slick looking interface.  I like it.

Comments:

Some kind of progress indicator would be useful.

I just see a flashing "fetching blocks" message, but have no way of knowing whether it's going to take another 10 seconds or 10 hours.  I don't know whether to give it a few more minutes or give up on it.

Oh, never mind.  It eventually changed to "fetching blocks... 1%".

So the initial message should say "fetching blocks... 0%" to I can see that it has a long long way to go.

Incidentally, I (and I would guess a lot of other people) have the full blockchain already in ~/.bitcoin/blk*.  My Internet connection is slow and expensive.  I would much prefer that your 'thin client' check to see if it can grab blocks from my local copy before it re-fetches them over the network.

Awesome. Testing now, how come you need to wait for a deposit to confirm before it can be bet?

Nice 

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UPDATE Jan 13, 2013: The SatoshiDice apps for desktop and android have been updated to v1.1 and are now in open beta. They will now be available from SatoshiDice.com for the first time (they'll be going up this week).

This new version (v1.1) can be downloaded here:

SatoshiDICE Android App
  MD5: ff89d643b9b2c8ab2c539dbcd6e2c73d
 SHA1: 5fa09730ed612c48817f84c79758857f62441fc7

(Installation instructions for Android: Download file, then enable Settings -> Security -> Unknown Sources. Then install a file browser (folks recommend Astro), find the .apk you downloaded and run it. Android should install directly from the file on the device.)

SatoshiDICE PC/Linux/Mac Desktop App
  MD5: bfa7f5ec58a3bc45dd6b8904b356cd2b
  SHA1: 9c1c76aef3dd825151f40b89d30acde7df4fc0b9

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They've arrived! After much development, SatoshiDICE now has two apps for your gambling enjoyment!





NOTE: THESE ARE IN OPEN BETA. THEY HAVE BEEN TESTED, BUT USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. If you find any bugs, please report them.


Both apps are "thin clients" meaning they are real Bitcoin wallets. When you open them up, you'll see a deposit address created for you. You can deposit and withdraw Bitcoins to that address whenever you wish. A thin version of the blockchain is downloaded on first launch (about 20 MB). Before coins can be bet, they must have received at least one confirmation. The apps transact and receive to SatoshiDice.com just like any other wallet.



Features

• Point and click interface to select bets
• Specify bet amount easily and repeat bets easily
• Stack bets to process in one transaction, saving on tx fees
• See your performance broken down by each bet option
• Apps work as wallets and you can backup your wallet files
• With the Android version, play on the go!
• Use these apps to demonstrate the awesome power of Bitcoin for the gambling industry...

IMPORTANT: The wallet files created by these apps are not encrypted, so keep them safe. In a future release, encryption will be supported. If you're worried about the integrity of the files, please use the checksums provided above.

Android Tablet Version:


Linux, Windows, Mac Version: