Hah. I tried that on week 2. I sent ~.8 to bump my 1.3 btc payout (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=918471.msg10210516#msg10210516). A lot of freakin good that did me... my 1.3 BTC payout is still unconfirmed.

That would only work if your 0.005 deposit was the VERY first deposit of the round and your 0.0065 deposit was the second (and the OP didn't take a 6.5% fee from the deposit). As it stands right now, there needs to be another ~3.6 BTC of deposits before your 0.0065 gets paid. This is completely normal - it's how these games work.

It's probably to his benefit not to respond at all, which seems to be the route that he's taking. If he responds and actually resolves the problem by paying you the BTC that he owes, a lot of other users will come out of the woodwork and demand that they receive their missing payouts, too. I have ~2.5 BTC worth of payouts that still haven't confirmed; the first one is from the 19th.

I think it's inevitable that this ends up being a 4SecondPonzi if he sticks to the current formula. This isn't the first or even second time that these Ponzi game sites have popped up. The last round was maybe back in March or April of 2014 and I think the same thing basically happened to them then. They faded away and everyone forgot about them until CryptoDouble popped up.

These three 24Hour payouts are stuck from days ago:

89045b165b6a602cc2e24c9409685e472e7b62575d1369c01cbd17734e488d6a
ed88835ca9171b38cfdee344eac91f59607ec14c88c0210d66fbb401f146a4d9
d2dd4b212be44be533364025d7c498101fea907692cbd2214002059e7f0c15cc

I'm not so sure that the "seed" btc is quite what it appears. There were a LOT of large "donations" fired off to the donation address in the beginning of the round and I can't find an equal number of early deposits (I've only found a little over 4 BTC that wasn't counted for the round). If I don't factor in that 8 BTC "seed", my last predicted payout is right in line with the actual payout:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12472870/Misc/WeeklyPonzi-Week3.jpg

...but if I do factor it in, my spreadsheet shows the payout being much higher up the list than it currently is.

Maybe something went wonky with the script and it sent too much to the donation address, so he just balanced it back out.

Updated after the OP seeded the round with 8.3 BTC:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12472870/Misc/WeeklyPonzi-Week3.jpg

One possible explanation is that confirmation time may now play a role in the sort order. Maybe your "bet" got placed first, but didn't actually confirm until after theirs. That's just a guess, tho...

It looks like the safe period was ~ 8 seconds...

I wasn't paying attention, so I missed if there was any money still in the coffer at the beginning of the round. Iif there wasn't, this is based on the current numbers: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12472870/Misc/WeeklyPonzi-Week3.jpg

There's no guarantee. All you can do is join the rest of us and wait... and wait... and wait. I have two unconfirmed payouts totaling around 2.25 BTC; both flushed from the blockchain.info ledger. I've written them off as a loss at this point, but we shall see.

It's good that the op is making changes to reduce these problems in the future but those who have potentially lost coins are probably shit out of luck.

@wp.cointemp2, what about the payout double spends? Are those fixed?

You're going to need to be VERY fast with your "bet". On Day #4, half of the total BTC sent was done so in the 00:00:00 time period.

If the OP has indeed fixed the random sort order bug on the site, you're really going to need to get your bet registered on the blockchain before the 00:00:01 time period for the best chance of receiving a payout. Then you have to worry about your payout being double spent and disappearing from your balance several hours later.

My own lost payout was from the 24 Hour Ponzi, so maybe they should both get new addresses.

What's actually happening that's causing the payouts to be double spent? Is it that previous "betters" are sending bogus transactions that, once sorted leave the Ponzi addresses essentially sending out payouts with bitcoins that don't exist?

@wp.coimtemp Do you have any comment about the disproportionately large amount of Double Spends that seems to surround the weekly and 24 hour games? We've seen numerous reports from people losing their payouts due to double spends. The blockchain.info address for the Weekly Ponzi game even has a warning on the topic:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12472870/Misc/doublespend.jpg
https://blockchain.info/address/1Week8mnAJwgaW5xJoBZo1UfhE8LYVJYk

I've lost my own payout from Day #2 of the 24 Hour Ponzi, apparently due to a Double Spend:

https://www.blocktrail.com/BTC/tx/ed88835ca9171b38cfdee344eac91f59607ec14c88c0210d66fbb401f146a4d9

I've tried emailing you about this a couple times, but haven't received a response.

The majority will probably get in on or before 00:00:01 and they'll end up being totally scrambled on the site due to the script not being able to keep up. So it will be a mad rush to place a bet within 1 second of game-launch in order to have a totally random chance at receiving a payout.

Same. I knew that I could make it in the first second, but that may not be enough. A friend and I got in with adjacent "bets" at 00:00:01. It looks like I'll probably get my payout (unless it ends up being a double spend like my LAST payout from that address), but he ended up being listed AFTER that break point address that was posted earlier, which has a 00:00:02 time.

Yea, and they're even more scrambled today since so many people got in within the first 3 seconds.

He's definitely just paying them in the order they appear on  the site. He's already paid some out of order.

If he goes in the order listed on the site, that's certainly what it looks like:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12472870/Misc/24hour.jpg

They're definitely not in order on the site, though.

I agree with this. However, if the OP were to actually complicate the process by changing the address for each round, you can bet we'd see some bots creep into the game.