Hi guys,
I've just submitted a bet that S.DICE will not survive until the next New Year (
http://betsofbitco.in/item?id=1535 ) , thought some of you might also be interested in betting on that.
EDIT: the bet is not available before it gets approved by the admins. I still think it is ethical to post the link right away.
This is a pretty bizarre bet... any reason for you to believe such a thing?
The problem with this is principally that it'd seem more likely for his chosen venue to not survive until the end of the year. After their recent
outright scamming who exactly would bet there?
I was looking at the blockchain.info, bets were pouring in like nothing happened,
satoshidice.com is yet another front-end, although it's humungously fuck up, forgetting the renewal.
Government can take the domain down, the service will still live. It is DDOS resistance at no cost.
They should to keep creating front-ends over different channels, like IRC, phone apps, a few new http sites, buy out the clones if any gets traction, make their own wallet apps, basically advertise those 1dice addresses all over, not just satoshidice.com .
I guess the design is so that the website itself is not particularly relevant to the service. Much like the case of MPEx itself. This may emerge as the correct way to build bitcoin services yet.
Not sure if you are affiliated or employed in some way by SD
Long ago I received a modest tip from Erik for some statistical analysis I provided him with. That's the extent of my affiliation with SD though (other than having spent about 40 BTC on shares which are now worth 28 BTC). The tip from Erik just about cancels out my loss on the shares (it was back when BTC was cheap).
I think the biggest thing in this entire thread is that we (as a community, I mean) need to find a way to repay people taking the time and putting in the effort to do useful things such as what dooglus does (but more generally too) without it being sponsored by the company itself (which has the problem of creating an affiliation). Any ideas?