HTML5 Anonymous Bitcoin Poker • Hacker News Board

abeiz wrote: post #9

I experimented with this a few years ago. Even going as far as creating https://bitflop.me . I came to the conclusion that the future legal battles would just not be worth it.

very interesting... WebRTC and poker - In the 'About us', you had mentioned on putting it on GitHub... is it still the plan?

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Post by z3t4 » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 7:07 PM UTC

mikeash wrote: post #15

z3t4 wrote: post #14

I think a site like this can easily make more money then say a drug-store on darknet, but perfectly legal. There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.

I thought online gambling was generally not legal.

It's illegal in the country I live in, but we still have tons of TV commercials for online gaming. So it's legal to play, but the site and company needs to be located in a country where it's legal. And they also would have to pay taxes.

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Post by joosters » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 7:08 PM UTC

z3t4 wrote: post #14

I think a site like this can easily make more money then say a drug-store on darknet, but perfectly legal. There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.

It's completely illegal, even in territories that allow online gambling.

How are they preventing underage gambling if the site is completely anonymous?

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Post by nofollow » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 7:09 PM UTC

frequently loses connection and when i reconnect the old dealt cards for a hand are not redrawn, only the newly dealt cards for that hand are drawn.

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Post by dmcginty » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 7:12 PM UTC

mikeash wrote: post #15

z3t4 wrote: post #14

I think a site like this can easily make more money then say a drug-store on darknet, but perfectly legal. There are some challenges though, like multi account cheating, and bot players.

I thought online gambling was generally not legal.

I'm in the United States. To my knowledge online gambling is not strictly illegal, but it's illegal for online casinos to send or receive money to or from any banking or crediting organization, therefore preventing users from transferring money into casino accounts. Bitcoin is still in a weird realm where it's considered property rather than a currency, which I imagine would make it similar to gambling with gold. (My knowledge is outdated by a couple years, so please correct me if I'm wrong.)

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Post by qrmn » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 7:13 PM UTC

LeoHaggins wrote: post #11

nitrix wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Highly hashed IPs. Highly. Hashed. That made my day.

Sorry, not used to speak about that with competent people :D

There are few enough IPv4 addresses that just about any hash forms an injective mapping which can be completely reversed: the best you can do is use something like HMAC and "pepper" it, but that only works if the clients can't verify or generate them.

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Post by fapjacks » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 7:14 PM UTC

mikeash wrote: post #17

loupereira wrote: post #7

What assurances are there that the house isn't cheating?

The assurances are as follows:

Water literally came out of my nose. Hahaha

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Post by merlincorey » Fri, Jul 10, 2015, 7:14 PM UTC

theseatoms wrote: post #22

stevecalifornia wrote: post #3

The only gambling occurring is the gambling that this is a trust-worthy implementation of multi-player poker.

How have other sites established credibility?

Usually by having their RNG audited and/or open-sourced/testible (though that has its own potential problems) followed by marketing and support and time in existence.

The newer a poker site is, the more likely it is to be shady, simply because it hasn't had anecdotal reports of it not being shady from actual players.