Quote from: boumalo on June 29, 2014, 10:21:35 AM

dooglus can you disclose how much BTC have not been claimed? What will you do with them? Just curious

It's almost 6 days since we announced we were suspending betting, and our coin liability has fallen from over 53k BTC to a little under 6k BTC. I have been emailing the accounts that have email addresses associated with them, and trying to use other means to track down the owners of large balances which don't have email addresses. One guy for instance had no email address, but his username came up on google as being the same as a very active poster on a big poker forum - so I PM'ed the account on the poker forum. I will continue trying to reach people until withdrawals slow right down. I just woke up and see that they're still happening relatively quickly - logs from the last 2 hours show 5 smallish withdrawals:

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2014-06-29 11:46:36 18.25475053 to 1MnQrZSQ4mfuwr2P3i2uDp8FoB1bSoo4bC txid d8feb8ab4bd367353b5db85142e13bc8ee5a0101c57aa85eaa3f3ea750ecc806
2014-06-29 11:59:37 2.17560387 to 17Vvi1ijXUBqGaDjeXKthcFjrKB4sasWEv txid 1ceb432db02d422e05b63f66e0391372e8d40632d0e770434bdb6231de93bbf5
2014-06-29 12:09:57 0.06153449 to 1HxWMeba93867ZXtgTdG5zH5C4DCJXd7EV txid ac932a456a07514694a2f2f9802c406072400d9900bde560ee0cd0bf9ab5be2e
2014-06-29 13:22:17 0.18582059 to 1K52ifECJp7mtRyW5c8io4s85E7KL8mzW8 txid b5690aeb1aefe08cc9e5157a7ad0a93e1d58bc44fa57a30c66b7f46002eec50b
2014-06-29 13:28:16 11.19270731 to 1GambdyBZ4K9jkb9KudxGtxmRPZGrqe5E8 txid 5c3b0b781050e7043c795abddea5b58c719e63c4e11b0215781dde66e052072c

A lot of the remaining balances have emergency withdrawal addresses associated with them. I'll use those as a last resort. And quite a few of the remaining balances are for users who set up 2FA to prevent fraudulent withdrawal, and then lost both their 2FA device and the paper backup they were instructed to make. I'm having those accounts wait for a period of time before disabling 2FA to give the real account owner a chance to withdraw.

The top 10 biggest account balances still on site are:

2247, 736, 692, 378, 314, 186, 143, 142, 133, 119, 73 BTC

The biggest one is accounted for - I reached him via forum PM and he'll be withdrawing soon.

There will inevitably be some accounts that still won't have been claimed after any given amount of time. I'm unclear on what I need to do with those. I don't want to still be "dealing with virtual currency" once regulations are being enforced that require me to collect private information on customers, so I'd like to get it all cleared up before those regulations are written. But I also don't want to be in the situation that someone remembers their JD account in a year's time, asks me for their coins and I have to say "sorry, I gave them away". Any suggestions? Is it reasonable to give a cut-off date after which remaining balances are forfeit?

Quote from: pawel7777 on June 29, 2014, 02:34:19 PM

"Invested/site" shows 0.00000000 it would suggest that every satoshi has already been claimed ( Huh

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On doge-dice there's still over 200m left.

On JD I went through the accounts and divested everyone. It turned out there were 30 accounts with less than half a satoshi invested, which I couldn't divest. Those 30 sub-satoshi amounts summed to 5 satoshis. I changed the site code to allow me to divest those too so the bankroll went to zero, at which point an obscure bug was triggered which made the site forget everyone's "base" and "principal" figures, meaning that if/when the site comes back up, all investors would be due for commission from the start, even the ones who have already overpaid, and also everyone's investment profit was showing zero.

I pulled the lost data from a recent backup. I can highly recommend Tarsnap for your server backup needs:

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Tarsnap works on a prepaid model based on actual usage.

Storage: 250 picodollars / byte-month
($0.25 / GB-month)

Bandwidth: 250 picodollars / byte
($0.25 / GB)

These prices are based on the actual number of bytes stored and the actual number of bytes of bandwidth used after compression and data deduplication. This makes Tarsnap ideal for daily backups many users have hundreds of archives adding up to several terabytes, but pay less than $10/month.

I pay about 50 US cents per day (in Bitcoin) to maintain up-to-date encrypted backups of all server data and wallets.

So I recovered the data, put it back on the server, and now everything's fine again, but I didn't want to repeat the mistake on DD.