Interesting!  What I take away from this is:  online play is actually more fair than live play, because of its use of a statistically proven random shuffling algorithm! 

LOL not to mention you need a sample size of what, a few tens of thousands of hands at least to get an accurate number, IIRC.  You're the second rigtard that's offered that who I would bet isn't even keeping track of their own hand histories.

 OR -- maybe people don't want to be paying out blinds 2-3x as often if there are only a few people seated at a table, so they just leave?  

Cannot agree with this enough -- this just helps to confirm that Seals is coming into the big-time.  The irony is so thick you can cut it with a knife.

SealsWithClubs would probably do themselves a service to publicly post the link to Poker Maven's description of its RNG / hand-shuffling algorithm on their site's FAQ page: http://www.briggsoft.com/docs/pmavens/Utilities.htm#shuffle  I must have linked to that half a dozen times already.

I don't know if this could be done -- they use Poker Mavens on the server side, which is closed-source.  Maybe SwC could somehow have the server write the seeds used for a hand to the hand history, after it is played?  That seems like it's asking for trouble though, if someone managed to get into their server and intercept the hand seed output before a hand has finished.

*shrug*  It'd be easy enough I'd think.  All you'd have to say is "Basically the same -- but this crypto-currency mines better on our hardware."

Yup!  Here's the link: http://support.coinbase.com/customer/portal/emails/new

The OP just posted that the transaction ended up going through fine.  What happened in your case?

Usually if you contact them about a cancelled transaction they'll push it through.  They're still training their fraud detection algorithm so that happens sometimes.

Yup, definitely unsubstantiated.  In fact, there was a case on Reddit recently where a transaction was cancelled for fraud when it would have massively been in their favor.  FWIW, I've bought BTC at least twice from them, and when it was delivered it was worth more than the price I purchased it at. 

As for the purchases taking 5 days, there's a perfectly good reason for that, and it's kinda tiresome to keep explaining it -- it's not some huge secret or conspiracy or due to horrible customer service.  You buy BTC from them via ACH bank transfer.  Those typically take 2-3 days to clear (that's the same for ACH transfers from anyone, anywhere).  I think they may tack on another day or two to make sure your ACH bank transfer to them clears without error.  They have to do this to mitigate fraud, as they're dealing with exchanging USD via a reversible payment (ACH transfer) for BTC, an inherently non-reversible payment -- very risky for them.

As for their business model, they make their money off their transaction fees -- and I can imagine ways of handling the transactions so that they would not be exposed to the risks of market swings.

Lucky you! 

I don't think anyone considers them an exchange, though.

I would say that this depends on the way they handle transactions.

I agree with yeti_alchemist; I wouldn't worry.

If it does arrive, please post an update anyway!  That way people will be able to see that the situation was resolved properly, and Coinbase doesn't get a bad name for no good reason.

If you're just using server CPUs, add my vote to mine LTC instead.

Well, first of all, it's a 24-hour rolling limit.  AIUI, this means that the buy window is open for however long it takes until the limit is hit again.  Depending on demand, this could cause the starting/ending times of the limit to shift.

Several people (myself included) have resorted to using automatic "buy" scripts to try and force an order through the minute the limit lifts.  This has probably caused the window of opportunity for a buy order to be very short-lived.  Sorry, you do what you gotta do!    FWIW, I bought just fine on a downturn (order went through at ~$85 USD / BTC as it was on its way down to ~$50 USD / BTC), although it took ~600 attempts over the course of ~10 hours.

Maybe the limit lifts prematurely if there were recently enough sell orders to put BTC back in their coffers?  That's totally unfounded speculation, though.

Not charging the 1% or the 15 cents, or both?

There's nothing on their blog or Twitter feed to indicate fee-free transactions at the moment.

Please be sure to let us all know when you're playing on SwC, I'm sure many people here would love to play you.      

LOL, another rigtard.  I'm tired of people casually insulting the integrity of the most successful BTC poker site out there.  "Careful monitoring of thousands of hands"?  LOL again -- under 10k hands isn't enough to prove a consistent +/- EV (what do you need: at least 20-30k hands for that?) so it's probably not enough to determine statistical anomalies either.  In any case, how about you put up or shut up?  Show us a graph from hand history software that proves a statistical anomaly.  Opinions?  Opinions are worth nothing.  Numbers are everything.

If you can't be bothered to prove your extraordinary claims, then I posit that you haven't actually bothered to "carefully monitor" your hands at all -- and as such, your claims of rigging are completely unfounded and worthless.  If you had, all you'd have to do is open up your hand history analysis software and take a quick screenshot of a graph.

As WiseOldOwl said, they make money from rake, from everybody.  It'd be ridiculous and stupid for them to rig anything, just like it'd be ridiculous and stupid for Vegas to rig live games.  They don't need to -- they make plenty of money being legit, and risking their reputation to make a few extra bucks would be killing the golden goose.  Hell, they've lowered the rake twice now.  If they were so greedy as to rig the site, why would they have ever done that even once?

SealsWithClubs uses Poker Mavens software, which has a very solid card shuffling algorithm.  Furthermore, it is closed source, and as such they cannot mess with the way it generates hands of poker.

So sick of hearing whining about the game being rigged.  Hell, you can get a simulator to test the shuffling algorithm: http://www.briggsoft.com/docs/pmavens/Utilities.htm#shuffle  That link also explains the shuffling algorithm used, and background on hand shuffling in general.  Trust me, it's solid -- the guy who wrote it definitely knew what he was doing.  It's impossible to rig by manipulating the cards dealt.  End of story.  The client used is closed source, and they'd have to muck with that source to do it -- and anyway, it would be discoverable in hand histories if you ran them through statistical analysis.

As for some sort of crazy colluding, like the site owners telling players at a table what other player's cards are... I think it might technically be possible, I'm not sure -- but I do know, based on the way the client serves up the hands of poker to players, it'd be a huge PITA, would probably lag the gameplay, and of course wouldn't worth the risk.  They make their money from rake, there's no way they'd risk the integrity of their entire site for a few extra bucks.

Does this rate limiting extend to Jr. Members?  This is really annoying sometimes, especially when you have a typo in your search string and you have to sit there for a minute to be able to search the proper one.  It's doing wonders for my lazy typing that Google's auto-correct has encouraged for so long...

What makes you say that?

I actually looked at that, don't know how I missed it...  maybe because it was called "membergroups" and not "user classes".  >.<