Really cool concept I love the idea of turning the mining race into a betting game, especially since it's built on verifiable Bitcoin data.

Just one suggestion that I think could take BlocksRace to the next level  consider integrating Bitcoin Lightning.

Nowadays, a huge portion of real Bitcoin transactions are happening over Lightning because of its speed and almost zero fees. It would make placing smaller bets (microbets) way more practical
Also, maybe even allow login/registration via Lightning using LNURL-auth.
LNURL-auth is like “Login with Google” or “Sign in with Twitter,” but for Bitcoin without email, passwords, or personal data.
You just click a button, scan a QR code with your Lightning wallet, and boom you’re instantly logged in or registered.

Looking forward to seeing how this evolves  best of luck and I’ll definitely be following the project!

Mining Pool: AntPool
Block Time: Between 10–15 minutes
MB: Under 1.50 MB

mmmmm, I won this and it was very close

lucky for me Foundry USA Pool mined the previous 2 blocks and not the 902000 block lol

1. A large miner can rig this by moving to a different mining pool to change the chance of winning.
2. How is the block time determined? Maybe a mining pool can rig the block time.

Thank you Knight Hider.  Let's go with option 1 for manipulating.

Let's say an extremely large miner, who has 1% of the total network, decides to manipulate the market and switch off from the current mining pool to a different one just because of BlocksRace game. First such kind of switch is costly for him, as it is not instant, and he risks block to be mined during it. The risk for him is around 1% of 300K USD = 30K USD . And even if block is not found during the switch, the whole manipulation just increases by 1% the chance of his new mining pool to get the block. Moreover for the version we are preparing for integration with different casinos, we will have realtime data from the mining pools what is their current hashrate so this change will be reflected as well with a reduction of the odds for this pool.

Option 2 - mining pool can not rig block time as this is race between all mining pools which one will compute/guess a hash(with the pending bitcoin transactions as input) , lower than the current bitcoin network difficulty. Leaving this from one of the prominent cypherpunks in the space



In regards of current option for betting & payout, I do not want to argue, it is not something that can be scaled up for sure, thus for the next version we will offer you the option to make a bet & withdrawal through Lightning .

Let us know all of you what you think if such a kind of option will make it easier to make bets or you prefer to have my account section with  deposit & withdrawal options with different cryptocurrencies

Mining Pool: other pool
Block Time: Between 5–10 minutes

I think, this might be the best unique gambling project I have ever seen in this forum.

Usually unique gambling projects are like crap because they made it from scratch, I have no problem to start small, but most of them can't get customers and they have limited budget, so in the end their project are dead.

I wonder what if miners know about this site, they're insiders, so they have higher chance to win.

Why do I have to deposit Bitcoin into the generated address each time I want to place a bet while I haven't signed up on your platform, that is more risky because a delay on your platform while sent a transaction will cause site dormancy leading to site activeness where the whole process will refresh itself and my Bitcoin gone.

I don't know if you understand my point, it would've been more better to sign up first before given an address to deposit to your balance, either USDC, Bitcoin, or Litecoin.

What do you think?

You deserve it man!

Those suggestions are indeed that good or could give out another options for someone to bet on and not just that basing on the block # but rather also with those things mentioned above.
So i wont that disagree on why OP give out that 50 bucks freebet on which its kind of generous i should say on which hitting up with that Foundry bet give that 3x on which it isnt
a bad multiplier at all.

I like the game, I've been waiting for such a game to appear on Bitcointalk for a long time and here I see it now but why are we limited to #900000 block? It will really be the best if you allow us to bet on #899881 block, #899954 block and etc... I'd really love to watch mempool.space and predict when the next block will be mined or which pool will mine the next block. I'd also be happy if you let us bet on whether the next block will be empty block or not.

Welcome to the forum. I have visited the website and tried to understand how it does work. So far it seems registration is not required since you claimed to be decentralised. So I like the system you implemented. So it does require the sender's own address from where the funds will be sent. Though still I am getting hard to understand how odds will work. Because I am not a pro at gambling. What I understand is that if someone sends funds from the exchange, they would be in trouble in case he wins. Because you are going to use the same address from where the funds came. So this is really a concern, though you have a warning system.

Seems you have a wallet connect system, but it doesn't work for me. Probably it's still under development. So when are you going to implement this wallet connect? And how could we trust that connecting a wallet on your site is safe?

Welcome to the Bitcoin forum, this is a nice game concept it's been a while since I've seen a new type of game the last unique gambling site I saw before is still related to Blockchain and you need to guess the last number of the a certain blockchain transaction, where in your platform its placing a bet on which mining pool who's going to find the next block.

The 25% cashback is generous, I tried to connect my wallet to the site but it seems like it's not available yet.

The is is a wonderful innovation, a fair system that cannot be rigged. I already love the entire platform as it is easy to navigate and the interface is fine. My only concern is knowing how the odds are fixed for the various miners. Is there is known independent body that fixes the odds or you have an internal mechanism of knowing what the odd for each miner should be? Will you list other markets in the future as a way of expanding your business? Let me get the answers to these questions first, thank you.

Is there a reason why there is no option to bet that "other miners" will not get a block? If there is the option to bet on them, some will assume there should be the option to be to bet against. Will I also be able to select the exact block I want to bet on or will it be fixed by the website.

I like the concept of the game, looks original. It will be difficult to get mainstream, but with proper marketing and management, it could be.

- Jay -

Isnt that 2.5x on other miners reward that small?

If we do base up on the overall chance or odds for other miners to mine the said block will be 38.12%
Then i would usually be sticking with foundry and antpool or even with viaBTC on which the profitability will be nice.

For those who do want to check out: https://mempool.space/mining