Bitcoin - teknisk diskussion

In fact, playing is so easy that you can do it without even visiting the website. For example, if you have Bitcoins, try sending them to the address:

1dice97ECuByXAvqXpaYzSaQuPVvrtmz6

Doing so will trigger an actual bet with 50/50 odds and a 1.957x payout if you win (giving the house a 1.9% edge). The transaction is sent, calculated, and returned typically within a matter of seconds. Think about that… you can gamble from within this article page itself.

No need to spend days waiting for your deposit to arrive, nor weeks or months for your winnings to return home. No account needed. You can place bets from any country, and from any device with a Bitcoin wallet (computer, phone, tablet, etc.). You can even click on that address above and see people placing bets in real time.

But why would players trust some unknown Irish website with a silly name to be legitimate? Because every single bet is provably fair. Using some basic mathematics and Bitcoins distributed blockchain database (which cannot be manipulated because nobody controls it), players can check their bet transaction after they place it and see, without a doubt, that the number rolled for their bet was legitimate. The Nevada Gaming Commission might want to start looking for new jobs.

Finally, at the end of the afternoon, it was our turn! Charlie and I had prepared some slick PowerPoint slides, but before we started, we asked the audience to email us using their smartphones. Upon doing so, we explained, they’d immediately have a Bitcoin account credited with 0.1 coins. This was done through Coinapult, of course. It didn’t matter what country they were from, nor their name, nor address… nor did we ask what they’d do with the money. We didn’t require any arduous sign-up process. There was no approval. There was no fee. We simply demonstrated to them the power of Bitcoin – they went from “never heard of it” to “I have an account with coins” in about 2 minutes, all from an auditorium in downtown Rio de Janeiro.

Side note: there are now some members of the Atlanta Federal Reserve who are in possession of Bitcoin – perhaps simply holding it on their own phones will make them less antagonistic toward this alien technology. I can imagine them taking this sample back to their laboratory to be dissected, and surely they will try to figure out a way to print more of it.