UPDATESBitcoin "master address" is no longer required for new accountsSeveral people asked me to make master address optional. That's what I did. Now, when a new player joins YOLOdice, he's not required to provide a master Bitcoin address. Login and password is enough to complete account setup.
One extra thing: if a user gets non-zero (larger than 1000 satoshis) balance, but has no login credentials yet, he is now asked via a notification to complete account setup.
Referral links became more friendlyI have changed format of referral links. E.g.
https://yolodice.com/#r-2FMoa-2k now becomes
https://yolodice.com/r?2FMoa-2k, which should be properly parsed by forums and social networks. I have also added buttons to share the ref link directly on Twitter and Facebook (no worries, no 3rd-party code has been added to YD, these are just helpful links).
(old referral links still work)
New forum signaturesNew forum signatures (available at
https://yolodice.com/#referrals) should be a bit more catchy and help you get referrals! They list Rakeback and Jackpots as site features.
yolodice-client got updatedA new version of our Ruby client library is available. You can get yolodice-client 0.1.6 from
https://github.com/ethan-nx/yolodice-client . The new version has much improved connection error handling.
Higher withdrawal feesThis one is something I had to do, even though I've been waiting far too long hoping the situation would resolve by itself. As you know, transaction fees are going crazy and number of unconfirmed transactions is well in tens of thousands range. The withdrawal fees we set in the beginning (0.0005 for instant withdrawal, 0.0001 for batch withdrawal) were far below what we paid in miners' fees on average. Although we have been subsidizing the fees for months, I don't think it's healthy for the project to continue this.
From now on the fees are increased to: 0.0012 for an instant withdrawal and 0.0003 for a batch withdrawal.
I know this sucks. Earning on withdrawals is not our intention and I promise we'll lower the fees as soon as network fees are lower too. I hope to see the solution ASAP, either through SegWit or larger blocks, or both. If it's SegWit, we'll jump on the bandwagon as soon as possible to lower the transaction size and the fees. But until now we have to deal with the situation by increasing the fees :-(
Cheers,
Ethan