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[Stress]

Thanks for the reply, but I meant, How long did it take you from when you first started working on it until you launched the site to the public for the first time?

We launched the site on the testnet some time around the 13th of June, and for real Bitcoins a week later.

So about 3 or 4 weeks.

As I thought, thanks for the reply. It seems very basic but a lot of work has been put into it specially that you didn't have any bugs. That sounds like a very reasonable time frame, one more question, How many hours a day on average would you say you worked on it?

Thanks

[dooglus]

How many hours a day on average would you say you worked on it?

Probably 18 or so.

[Stress]

How many hours a day on average would you say you worked on it?

Probably 18 or so.

Impressive, thanks for the reply.

[dooglus]

How many hours a day on average would you say you worked on it?

Probably 18 or so.

Impressive, thanks for the reply.

Can I ask why you're asking?

If I was to do it all again, I would have worked on the site for an extra month before launch. I launched before I was really ready, thinking I would be able to polish it up later. What I didn't realise was how much work and stress the day to day running of the site would be, and how little time and energy I'd have for adding new features.

[mailmansDOGE]

If I was to do it all again, I would have worked on the site for an extra month before launch. I launched before I was really ready, thinking I would be able to polish it up later. What I didn't realise was how much work and stress the day to day running of the site would be, and how little time and energy I'd have for adding new features.

So 18 hours of daily work wasn't enough for you to polish the website while running it? No offense, seriously. But it would be interesting to know how you distributed those hours.

[dooglus]

So 18 hours of daily work wasn't enough for you to polish the website while running it? No offense, seriously. But it would be interesting to know how you distributed those hours.

I thought he was asking about the time before launch, when I was first working on the site.

[drawingthesun]

How many hours a day on average would you say you worked on it?

Probably 18 or so.

Impressive, thanks for the reply.

Can I ask why you're asking?

If I was to do it all again, I would have worked on the site for an extra month before launch. I launched before I was really ready, thinking I would be able to polish it up later. What I didn't realise was how much work and stress the day to day running of the site would be, and how little time and energy I'd have for adding new features.

Well, to be fair, you had no idea of the drama to come! Let's just say, JustDice provided for many hours of "entertainment" as our holdings moved up and down.

[Stress]

How many hours a day on average would you say you worked on it?

Probably 18 or so.

Impressive, thanks for the reply.

Can I ask why you're asking?

If I was to do it all again, I would have worked on the site for an extra month before launch. I launched before I was really ready, thinking I would be able to polish it up later. What I didn't realise was how much work and stress the day to day running of the site would be, and how little time and energy I'd have for adding new features.

Sure, I'm just curious and I believe you did a very good job on developing the website and keeping it up for as long as it lasted. The stress was probably a lot of pressure on you and from your success, I can say you did a good job handling everything. You pretty much built a very reputable name for yourself and a lot of people respect you for that including myself.

[dooglus]

You pretty much built a very reputable name for yourself and a lot of people respect you for that including myself.

I had a pretty good name before JD even launched, which I'm sure contributed massively to JD's success.

I still have a little over 1000 BTC unclaimed in JD accounts, although I noticed last night that the last remaining large investor was attempting to withdraw his ~600 BTC balance.

The hot wallet was empty, so he couldn't. I refilled it this morning, but he's not been back.

Mystery investor: if you're out there, there are ~300 coins in the hot wallet waiting for you. If you withdraw them, I'll put another 300 in so you can take those too. Or email me to arrange a manual withdrawal of a single lump sum.

Scammers: don't bother. Random "I had 600 BTC but my dog ate my homework" emails never work.

[Stress]

You pretty much built a very reputable name for yourself and a lot of people respect you for that including myself.

I had a pretty good name before JD even launched, which I'm sure contributed massively to JD's success.

I still have a little over 1000 BTC unclaimed in JD accounts, although I noticed last night that the last remaining large investor was attempting to withdraw his ~600 BTC balance.

The hot wallet was empty, so he couldn't. I refilled it this morning, but he's not been back.

Mystery investor: if you're out there, there are ~300 coins in the hot wallet waiting for you. If you withdraw them, I'll put another 300 in so you can take those too. Or email me to arrange a manual withdrawal of a single lump sum.

Scammers: don't bother. Random "I had 600 BTC but my dog ate my homework" emails never work.

One more thing if you don't mind answering. I'm sure you've had tons of offers regarding someone else running the site for you and you keeping full control of the development/code ect. Why haven't you accepted any of those offers? Or no offer has caught your eye enough for you to be interested.

Thanks

[BayAreaCoins]

I still have a little over 1000 BTC unclaimed in JD accounts

Probably people in jail lol

[Dabs]

One more thing if you don't mind answering. I'm sure you've had tons of offers regarding someone else running the site for you and you keeping full control of the development/code ect. Why haven't you accepted any of those offers? Or no offer has caught your eye enough for you to be interested.

I'm wondering about this too. I'm one of those people with one of those types of offers. I mean, I'd stake my name so that dooglus doesn't have to (as far as legal is concerned.) It's legal (more or less) to operate an online gambling site where I am.

[Lohoris]

I still have a little over 1000 BTC unclaimed in JD accounts, although I noticed last night that the last remaining large investor was attempting to withdraw his ~600 BTC balance.

The hot wallet was empty, so he couldn't. I refilled it this morning, but he's not been back.

Mystery investor: if you're out there, there are ~300 coins in the hot wallet waiting for you. If you withdraw them, I'll put another 300 in so you can take those too.

Isn't this unsafe?
I'd rather just send him directly the sum, without risking it in the hot wallet.

I imagined there was a feature which automated that, such as "pending withdrawal" you had to manually send, but already had a destination address set by the user.

[boumalo]

I still have a little over 1000 BTC unclaimed in JD accounts

Probably people in jail lol

Dead, dt know their password or username, forgot they have a JD account, dust accounts

Jul  1 16:45 - total: 2500
692, 378, 314, 133, 119, 86, 73, 71, 52, 41, 29, 27, 25, 24, 22, 18, 15, 2*13, 3*12, 2*10, 2*9, 3*8, 2*6, 2*5, 3*4, 11*3, 11*2, 53*1, 3784*0

If the 600BTC that dooglus is talking about is the 692, there will only be 300-400BTC left; maybe to be distributed in 6months in a big game with 300 prizes of 1BTC, spread the fun!

[Lohoris]

there will only be 300-400BTC left; maybe to be distributed in 6months in a big game with 300 prizes of 1BTC, spread the fun!

wat

[dooglus]

Isn't this unsafe?
I'd rather just send him directly the sum, without risking it in the hot wallet.

I imagined there was a feature which automated that, such as "pending withdrawal" you had to manually send, but already had a destination address set by the user.

I never got the 'pending withdrawal' feature set up. I can see in the logs what address people have tried to withdraw to, but I can't be sure they still want a withdrawal of that amount to that address.

There were several hundred coins in the JD hot wallet most of the time the site was running, to allow big players to withdraw instantly, and it never proved to be a problem.

The 300 BTC were pulled from the hot wallet last night, so I've put the rest in there now. This time I've split it up into 10 equal pieces, so the withdrawal should go more smoothly this time. (I don't spend unconfirmed chance, so if there's a single large output in the wallet and you try to withdraw your balance in two equal parts, the first withdrawal will leave unconfirmed change in the wallet, and you'll have to wait for it to confirm before your second withdrawal will be allowed. That's what happened last night).

[Stars]

I have a question Dooglus. Lets say you didn't know how to code therefor you had to pay a developer which you didn't 100% trust, what's the worst they can do? Is there anything that can be put in place so the developer doesn't know the seeds and of course can NOT cheat out investors or if it was private funded by my self presumably cheat out me?

[dooglus]

I have a question Dooglus. Lets say you didn't know how to code therefor you had to pay a developer which you didn't 100% trust, what's the worst they can do? Is there anything that can be put in place so the developer doesn't know the seeds and of course can NOT cheat out investors or if it was private funded by my self presumably cheat out me?

The developer writes the code that tells the server what to do. If you can't understand the code he writes, you've no idea what he has told your server to do. It could be doing anything, up to and including sending him all the server seeds and hot wallet contents.

You pretty much have to trust him - or have someone you trust review all of his code (and, of course, don't grant him access to the server, or he can just change it after it has been reviewed).

[espringe]

I have a question Dooglus. Lets say you didn't know how to code therefor you had to pay a developer which you didn't 100% trust, what's the worst they can do? Is there anything that can be put in place so the developer doesn't know the seeds and of course can NOT cheat out investors or if it was private funded by my self presumably cheat out me?

What I'd do in that situation is make them work on openly on github.

SHAMELESS PLUG TIME WITH CASE STUDY:

I open sourced moneypot.com as way of adding a bit extra transparency. So far I've had three different odds-effecting bugs. One I found myself, and patched (playing at 1.01x was -EV for the house). A second which was reported independently by two different people auditing the code (the game instant crashed 1 in 101 games, not 1 in 100 like it should) and the third more subtle (which I won't say more, as it hasn't been patched -- but easy for me to see if anyone is abusing it) which would allow a player to play at +EV.

The more people who read and review the code, the harder it's going to be to slip something past

[zimmah]

You pretty much built a very reputable name for yourself and a lot of people respect you for that including myself.

I had a pretty good name before JD even launched, which I'm sure contributed massively to JD's success.

I still have a little over 1000 BTC unclaimed in JD accounts, although I noticed last night that the last remaining large investor was attempting to withdraw his ~600 BTC balance.

The hot wallet was empty, so he couldn't. I refilled it this morning, but he's not been back.

Mystery investor: if you're out there, there are ~300 coins in the hot wallet waiting for you. If you withdraw them, I'll put another 300 in so you can take those too. Or email me to arrange a manual withdrawal of a single lump sum.

Scammers: don't bother. Random "I had 600 BTC but my dog ate my homework" emails never work.

what about my tortoise?