Thanks Doog.  Here is the last one from me:

Address: xJDCLAMZraAiGftMe2SPnB5furwS8jRkXH
PrivkeyPart: LndDRrfx89DiyicvMmzggivqYJZiDcnDWE9GcNfDvMfBwGEiRnp8
UID: 4137

I found 10 address altogether at a cost of about 0.34 CLAMS each.

If vanitygen's reported difficulty number is what I think it is then there are 2 x 10^36 "JDCLAMZ" addresses.  I think you have all the good ones though.

Dom

Found four more while at work today.  These things appear with quite a temporal variation.  And they are all different in their own way.

Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                             
Address: xJDCLAMZduvWYff38mxFMyk9Ki95YVhq7Y
PrivkeyPart: LhoxMSXoDUBUU1UfSaELmHrwJrKEwbiGLK4qpRhUB6rZA586wtH1
Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                             
Address: xJDCLAMZq9egdLiG9pu7QDtiAn1diCG18m
PrivkeyPart: Lj9bLPLc8hLp1ttjCdsBWjxNqXUpwjHi6eGMesbKmY7GTC1DSr5F
Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                             
Address: xJDCLAMZEsLBNfRrFR1DuGRkeWXbo2ZXRn
PrivkeyPart: LpeP9BcLqSLgXbbchCFkzg695ND2u8sv3C92rApRgaJK2mZEdNFG
Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                             
Address: xJDCLAMZ7XratB7jhThxPeyej2Y5W65Qex
PrivkeyPart: Lh8vv6QAopskTrmbTypcHRuZKMGFpxuYJSkmjbVUY269TL9n4vxT

UID: 4137

Found another.

Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                             
Address: xJDCLAMZbv9gzE6qrmDucY2gHV4vBX4rFr
PrivkeyPart: Lgpt9vSp4RM8Vs5bUc7vRrVGzMx6mnW354QVbWVPDXqxnbZNd5tW
UID: 4137

How many of these are there?

And another while I slept.

Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                             
Address: xJDCLAMZ7yCZQQU27fAkFUv2vXw1FuN2xP
PrivkeyPart: Lmxkm6xm9Udzz1MyGaSyNKujymwqBbsJYkLm1szSFSRMmBcF1QkL

UID: 4137

I found two more.  I got the first one in two hours these two showed up after three days.

Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                              
Address: xJDCLAMZ8dNmRAjBwmNtZhf9fqDDhCfxTH
PrivkeyPart: Lm9vN8Asm3CqfXR5BS1ZrQkQQbeiSK8Qy2QggFwVxNTfwXAR1FPA

Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                              
Address: xJDCLAMZ3aCKCuKpSu6vCV99fQwj1PmH9F
PrivkeyPart: LiGWSKzRL3yQZu51WSaZt2WZM65PkKp7ofzWmrTLneXQKnw9BRUH

UID: 4137

Thanks Dooglus!

I'm running vanitygen on an old 5870 graphics card that I have left over from my mining days.  That address came up after only 2 hours.  I've been running it for another 16 hours now and nothing has shown up.  Since the reward has been increased I will leave it running.  It's very nostalgic, thinking about my break even point.  - BigDom

I know this isn't worth much but I've never found a vanity address before.

Pattern: xJDCLAMZ                                                             
Address: xJDCLAMZGs18PcAT4ARXUUy81MhwTJXpt5
PrivkeyPart: Lhj8K1ZuxYy6xU9NWTeTDQfPgkpUmB3JcpC8kCDpfwSb7TAAKMCZ

Just-Dice account number: 4137

1Aw22m3NZdhP2ZJHycfXf51L1SXY4JtSCW

But how do I know that code that has been vetted is what was compiled?  There is no checksum delivered with the binary.  Do I need to compile it myself?

If I download the clam client how to I determine that it is not malware?  I don't want to turn on a alien keylogger.

That's how much I have!  So long as I stop counting at 348.

Here is an example of a multi-bet strategy that improves your odds over a single bet strategy for a fixed bankroll.

Strategy 1: Bet 3 BTC, p = 0.7425         - get 4 BTC with p = 0.7425
Strategy 2: Bet 1 BTC, p = 0.495,
                if lose bet 2 BTC, p = 0.495. - get 4 BTC with p = 0.744975

Strategy 2 has better odds, by p = 0.002475 or 0.3%.  Strategy 2 is martingale starting bet of 1, exit of 4 or bust.

This is explained by the fact that Strategy 2 doesn't bet 3 BTC unless the first bet loses whereas Strategy 1 bets 3 BTC.  Your expected losses are proportional to the total amount bet.  The average amount bet with Strategy 2 is 2 BTC.

This is an example of the principal that: The less you bet the less you lose.

It is essential for each strategy that you stop betting.  The amount you lose grows with each bet.

I paid taxes because all my money goes through my American bank account.  I don't want to go to jail.

My daughter.  She got me into bitcoin mining in early 2011.  We made a lot of money together.  I paid off her student loans with it.  I bought a snowblower with bitcoins. Otherwise we are just holding out for the second million dollars.

I also paid a lot of taxes on the coins I sold for dollars.

The chance of it being a Winkleaddress is pretty good since the Winklei owe a significant percentage of all the bitcoins.

This is one of their addresses:15D2pY5KJkv5yBcZEakgARFmhwYQ76hhFM

I was able to find this by guessing.

-edit-  Looks like they keep moving those coins.

I'd like to test this.  I bet that if you created a game that has a fixed guaranteed return of -1% that people would still play.  For every bitcoin wagered 0.99 bitcoins is returned.

How about it Dooglus.  Can you create a site that is not only provably fair but deterministic.  In that you know exactly your return before you wager.

Gambling is an activity that is against the gamblers own financial interest.  Would that tendency to gamble away money work if there was no way to win.  I guess it wouldn't be gambling then.

Try it see what happens.

How do I monitor my Just-Dice investment without being tempted to place a bet?

I haven't placed a bet in over a month now.  I just have my few bitcoins left in as an investment.  Every now and then I look at the site to see how it is doing.  But that temps me to place a bet.  Today I checked by looking at the cold wallet but that has more coins in it than the bank.

Is there some other way to see how the bank is doing without seeing the betting form?  I know Dooglus will ban my account from betting if I ask but I want to be grown up about this.

As an investor at the rate the bank is growing I will make back my betting loses in just under a year.

BigDom

I just took 50 Bitcoins out of my Just-Dice investment.  Back when that was $5,000 it wasn't that big a deal.  But now that it is $50,000 I feel that the risk is too much.

I still have a few hundred left in the investment but I am seriously going to reduce it.  Just as soon as I can get over the idea of making more money off of other gamblers.

Just-Dice was really profitable for me initially.  I was up over 40 bitcoins at once.  Then nakawa brought me down 30 bitcoins.  Months later and I am barely even.  I am making money very slowly now that the purse is so large.

50,000 bitcoins = 50 million dollars is way too much money for this service.

I lost my early adopter advantage by placing some bets myself.  I really regret this.  I lost what I can afford, about 15% of my total stake, but if I hadn't lost it I would feel much better.

I'm really looking forward to being out of this all together.  I guess this message is just part of the weaning process.  Really, you find your self with a substantial share of a million dollars and you invest it with a cool internet gambling dude?  Why don't I just get out completely?  Of at least go back to investing just a few thousand dollars?

Dom

I can't analyze this but I can run a simulation.

My simulation:
  edge = 0.01
  probability of winning a bet = 0.66
  First Bet = 1.0
  startingBank = 100.0
  Goal = desiredBank / startingBank.

  Bet firstBet
  do
    If win bet max(previousBet/2, firstBet)
    If lose bet min(bank, previousBet*2.0)
  until Bank = goal * startingBank  or bank = 0.0.


The simulation calculates the results over 100,000 tries.  It shows the ratio of reaching the goal to losing the bank.

Goal      Wins ratio     Equivalent House Edge
1.01        0.988            0.0012
1.1          0.8904          0.0195
2.0          0.423            0.153

The house edge for a single bet is 0.01.