I agree with Helikoperben, this is a terrible idea. This kind of thing is better addressed by Play, putting gambling in BTS will just make us look desperate.
We are desperate; we are closer to the cliff than you realise.
I hate this idea, but sadly a dying person can't pick and choose.
I'm not desperate. I never thought Bitshares was "get rich quick".
So what are you desperate for when you're only one year in and it's a crypto recession?
The developers are getting paid, software is being written. In order to expand the market in my opinion you have to show that Bitshares is safe and regulatable either programmatically or externally depending on what users want. Minebitshares can market BitAssets and the serious games can be built into that but I don't see any reason why we need or require dice or gambling.
We were attracted to the idea of prediction markets. We should be predicting the outcome of the Superbowl not playing dice. Economic activity we produce must also have social utility so it can be marketed as something "good" to mainstream society. Bingo might be fun but it's not going to save the world or even benefit Bitshares very much.
So in my opinion there has to be "serious games" which solve some social problem while also being fun. These "serious games" should help usher a new era and new kind of replacement for what we today call "jobs". It should be marketed as a fun way to make a profit while helping improve society. Dice cannot be marketed in that way and neither can Bingo.
In fact there are several dices in NXT. If we want to do it, then we should make it good. The users should not just the bts holders. It should be on a website as a gateway to attract new blood.
Yes it would be good if there was eventually a website too.
Where are the NXT dice sites? In the wallet?
Gambling this early on will make the founders of Bitshares look greedy and unnecessarily shady. In my opinion you can have gaming elements, you can have chance, but it should be way more creative than to just take Dice or Bingo. That lack of creativity makes it look like a money making scam to attract suckers.
I understand that an influx of volume is good for Bitshares but I think simulating mining, and coming up with beneficial "serious games" is better than to just use casino style advertising. The whole point here is to advertise the protocol and show what it can do but you also have to innovate.
You can for example set up games where BTS are burned per play but maybe these serial games have puzzles in it which if solved actually benefit efforts in the real world. Think carefully about how games can be designed which are fun, which cost BTS, but which offer a chance to win, and make sure those games also have social utility. The idea is if you can you can make Bitshares look good while also increasing volume.
Also there is no reason to build it into the wallet. If you want to build it into the wallet that would be fine but there is no reason why it has to be.
In one of my previous posts I listed all sorts of serious games or beneficial games wihch can be used. I mentioned innovation games for example which could take advantage of the voting functionality to let people competitively generate innovation. I suggest you look into how these sorts of games can be created to the benefit of Bitshares:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation_gameIf it cannot be done right then in my opinion it's better not to do it at all. I don't see anything innovative about Dice or Bingo. So it's just copying what other groups are doing and it doesn't seem to indirectly benefit Bitshares or even negligibly contribute to science like Primecoin. Marketing it to people who are already rich and who don't like gambling becomes impossible because it will lack social utility or utility for the Bitshares ecosystem. Minebitshares and Bitshares Wildcard seem like they are just gambling but if you look closely at the idea it has strategic social utility and benefits the ecosystem of crypto as a whole.
I think if Bitshares is going to do games it should do something different and live up to the reputation of innovation. I also think why not work with Bitshares Play which seems specifically designed for this purpose?
Maybe Bitshares Play can focus on gamification and then Bitshares can adopt what is proven to be fun.