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Board Gambling
Re: bitZino :: Provably Fair HTML5 Bitcoin Casino - Now featuring Craps!
by
libertaad
on 11/10/2012, 20:48:35 UTC
This site looks and plays great. For me at this point it's pretty much the only game in town after reading that thread regarding dooglus from the operator of Strike Sapphire. What is it about Bitcoin that makes people go crazy?

Anyway, don't mean to get off topic too much. Keep up the good work on bitZino, it's really easy to use and the only complaint I can think of is just that it could use some more games. But it seems like your working on them and adding them, so good stuff. Tried Craps today and it was good, probably my favorite so far.

Thanks, and I'm glad you're liking it! We are indeed constantly working on new games. Our next game to launch will probably be three-card poker. We are also working on adding more varieties of video poker.

We would like to add multi-player games at some point - but for now we are focusing on having a full selection of single-player casino games.

I just saw this on your 'about bitZino' page:

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We leverage HTML5 browser standards to bring you a world-class casino right in our browser

Do you mean "right in your browser"?  It's mine, not yours!  Smiley

I was looking at that page trying to determine the maximum bet size for each of your games, but couldn't find it.  Is that written anywhere?

Thanks for catching this typo! I can't believe how long it's been live this way, but it's fixed now Cheesy I also fixed the colon issue on our user page.

Right now we only show the maximum bets in the rules dropdown if you're cashed into a real-bitcoin table. We are planning on changing this soon so that it will show on all play-money tables as well. Thanks for bringing this up, so that we expedite this change.

I lost the 0.25 BTC you recently gave me.  When I try to "play for bitcoins" I'm shown my deposit address, and the message:

"To get started, send some bitcoins to your personal deposit address. Your bitcoins will instantly be available to start playing!"

I send some bitcoins to my address, but the message stayed there.  Is it meant to update automatically, or do I need to refresh the page?  It would be nice if you could push an update when you receive my deposit, but I don't know if that's possible.  If not, maybe you should mention that a page refresh is required, or have a button or link for "refresh my balance" or similar.

(Refreshing the page shows the deposit went through OK, so it is just that you're not updating the page when I deposit)
Dealing with usability in my day-job I would suggest adding the button anyway.... it eliminates user questions (dooglus is not your average user, and he had questions).

Even if you rely on some sort of push and just disable the button for 5 seconds it makes the user 'feel better'.

Thanks for the advice! I agree with you that a refresh button would be good here.