To Reuben Alexander: know and acknowledge that you are or at least were an active part of this scam if it turns out to be that, it was good of you to have identified your mistake and took down that article but honestly, that is as half baked a reaction as was posting it to bitcoin magazine in the first place, the fact is that you throu bitcoin magazine (a trusted source by the community) endorsed this PR, this was not you buying their stuff.

this product only seemed attractive because it was published on bitcoin magazine as i recall it there was no indication that it was posted by a bot

Its with great shame that i acknowledge that i too am a part of this scam because when this PR was posted in the Bitcoin magazine y shared it with someone dear to me who thru listening to my enthusiasm for 2+ years and started asking me for a good mining rig to buy & had been telling them that it seemed to late for the available batches and that he would be better buying bitcoins directly.

He Acted... with a wire transfer... Too late to cancel

know it appears by the info on this thread that he is down some USD$3,600 Do i feel responsible? hell yeah, ABSOLUTELY YES. what is there for me to do? pay him some part of the money that was lost... (any adult giving, transferring, etc.. money its responsible for what they do)

What can you do? it would be nice of you to prove that you were not involved with this people, sadly that is almost impossible

I think you should use your time and effort to investigate whether this is a scam without any doubts, and any individuals involved.
and help bring them to light.

Do some follow up articles in the Bitcoin Magazine and help those that are being seemingly scammed join to consider action

As for your lead editor i think he left you easy with a "do better in the future" because this kind of slip (Zero Check, trusted outlet) in this environment (Sold out batches, prolonged ship dates, burgoing exchange rates) its at least naive and down right suspicious. if you can just apologize what stops you from doing it (if not again) in the future...



so if you ARE sorry dont tell me... SHOW US.

to coin@coin, easy for you to think an apology is sufficient. good for you that you could cancel the deposit. congrats.

BTC2 Bounty for Modding the php bot to:

• Make the MIN_BET and MAX_BET a percentage/fraction of the current balance
  
  
• If LOSE! use this same amount multiplied until WIN! OR MAX_BET reached
  
  
• If WIN! send a fraction of win amount to "1XYZ1" address
  
  
• If MAX_BET Reached, start over
  
  
• Stop after X amount sent to "1XYZ1" address
  
  
• • OR count_won grater than XYZ2
    
  • • OR after a WIN! and the ratio of win loses is grater than XYZ3 and a minimum of XYZ bets have been played
      
      
  Always wait for confirmed balance to avoid the larger fees.(no rush to lose everything)
  
  

require_once('jsonRPCClient.php');
/** BITCOIN **/
$btcu = array("user" => "xxx",             // RPC Username
            "pass" =>   "xxx",               // RPC Password
            "host" =>   "localhost",      // RPC Hostname/IP
            "port" =>   8332);            // RPC Port
$b = new jsonRPCClient("http://{$btcu['user']}:{$btcu['pass']}@{$btcu['host']}:{$btcu['port']}");

define('MIN_BET', 0.0633399);
define('MAX_BET', 2);
define('ADDRESS', '1dicec9k7KpmQaA8Uc8aCCxfWnwEWzpXE');

$bet = MIN_BET;
$total_fees = 0;
$count = 0;
$count_won = 0;
while (($bet <= MAX_BET) && ($count_won < 300))
{
        $balance_a = $b->getbalance('*', 0);
        if (!isset($starting_balance)) $starting_balance = $balance_a;
        if($b->getbalance('*', 1) < $bet) { // If we don't have enough confirmed bitcoins to send to satoshi dice...
            echo "Waiting for confirmed balance";
            while($b->getbalance('*', 1) < $bet)
            {
                echo ".";
                sleep(60); // Wait a full minute before checking the balance again.
            }
            echo "\n";
        }
       try // Wrapped in a try catch block just incase we run out of cash.
        {
            $b->sendtoaddress(ADDRESS, (float) $bet);
       }
        catch(Exception $e)
        {
            echo "Have: " . $b->getbalance('*', 1) . " Needed: " . $bet . "\n";
          die("Ran out of money?\n");
       }
        $balance_b = $b->getbalance('*', 0);
        $count++;
        $fee = $balance_a - $balance_b - $bet;
        $total_fees += $fee;
        $total_fees = number_format($total_fees,8,'.','')+0

the errors came with 3 different attempts at modifieng the bet amount for it to be a fraction of the balance,

I am no coder, but would like some advice in modding the phpbot to allow for a fraction of balance as MIN_BET and for it to recalculate after any win, same for MAX bet, also  if MAX_BET reached start over

i did try to modify the script by myself to allow this but received

Object of class jsonRPCClient could not be converted to int in XXXXX/bot2.php on line 14

Or

PHP Notice:  Object of class jsonRPCClient could not be converted to int in XXXXX/bot2.php on line 10

Or

PHP Fatal error:  Can't use method return value in write context in XXXXX/bot2.php on line 10

Any Advice would be appreciated

do the restrictions lift automatically?

do avalon accepts bitcoin?

restrictions indeed...

seams fair!

just fulfilling the requisite for newbies about posting, been following a wile.