Although people still don't know who bought SatoshiDice from Erik Voorhees at the price of 1263 15 bitcoin in July, a spokesperson said that the company is adding some enhancements to the new game. They told CoinDesk that the new features will include session-based accounts and an application interface designed for developers.
Kat Brown, the company's product and marketing director, joked: "Those casinos that haven't integrated Bitcoin really treat their players badly. They'd better close the website and bet through homing pigeons. "
According to sources, this new game with a development cost of $65,438+10,000 to 1 10,000 was already under development before Voorhees sold its website. The development cost of this game (because SatoshiDice doesn't have full-time employees, these are all the responsibility of the contractor) is all paid by Bitcoin.
What did these bitcoins buy? This game has a new function called' gift', which will give a part of all bets as a reward to the top three players on the site. The ranking has been changing, and it is cleared every day.
The company did not disclose what the gift was, but it claimed that players could earn "hundreds of bitcoins" through the gift.
Session-based account means that the tribute game is played in a disconnected (block-ring-chain) mode, which is contrary to the original SatoShiDice game. At one time, the original game mode caused the game transactions in this station to occupy 3/4 of all transactions in block-ring-chain. However, deposits and withdrawals are still processed through the blockchain in the form of zero authentication transactions. Brown said: "SatoshiDice's classic game and the new tribute game are fair and verifiable, although they use some different systems to achieve this goal."
"The blockchain undeniably proves the occurrence of the transaction, but it itself cannot verify the calculations related to the transaction." The calculation of verification game funds is a thorny issue, and fair and verifiable bitcoin games have made real innovations in this respect. Consumer protection has now been achieved through mathematics rather than bureaucracy.
In particular, this system uses a value called "Daily Secret", which changes every 24 hours and is announced the next day after betting. It is a combination of two different numbers: a number is a client seed, a string of numbers provided by the player, and the player can change it at any time. The other number is the account seed, which is a random value attribute of each player's account.
These two numbers are combined with the number of bets (associated with each account, and each next bet is increased by 1).
Use SHA-256 hash function to calculate these numbers, and take the first four bytes to get a "lucky number". The idea is to generate a (fair) number, which is not manipulated by SatoshiDice, but input by the player.
Interestingly, SatoshiDice used mathematics (rather than revealing the identity of the stationmaster) to prove its fairness. The new stationmaster has other gambling interests.
"Exposing our identity doesn't do us any good. The reason why we want to know the identity of the business owner is to know whether he or she is credible. " Brown said. "Bitcoin technology and the fair and verifiable system used by SatoshiDice are far more than that-we prove our integrity through mathematics rather than identity."
SatoshiDice's two stations will no longer publish site data in the future. The station used to publish financial information every month (although it temporarily stopped publishing data before the original stationmaster Voorhees sold the station).
"Because SatoDice's stakeholders are anonymous (they can't be contacted at all), this was done before to show sato dice's transparency." Brown said. "After the website is resold, it is no longer needed."
Tribute will not replace the original SatoshiDice game, now it is called classic SatoshiDice.
The feature set of the new game is very different from the classic game. Brown explained: "There will definitely be some players of classic games switching to new games. We know that some gamers have found some creative uses and applications for classic games, so they don't have to worry that classic games will quit the stage. "
The session-based nature of the new game means that it may be more vulnerable to DDos attacks in theory.
Previously, because the transaction was handled by the block ring chain, SatoshiDice's DDos attack would not destroy the playability of the game. Because all the transactions of the new game are out of the chain, it is no longer immune to DDos attacks, so the company must sign a contract with an anti-DDos provider.
Brown said that like classic games, tribute games will be close to American players, and he also mentioned the attitude of the US government towards bitcoin gambling.
The company took an approach that was controversial with American regulations. Brown likes the slogan "Entertainment when legal tender collapses" and points out that the United States has fallen behind the times in bitcoin management.
"Seeing that other countries are innovative, open and inclusive about Bitcoin, while the United States arbitrarily summons, fines and imprisons people, we can't help but wonder, will the United States become insignificant in the future like banks?" She asked, we don't want this. After all, the United States has great potential to become a great country.