place_bet and request_withdrawal released everything on any exception from the broadcast, including the 15s timeout and a connection dropped after the write. The tx may have propagated: a bet's sats landed in the pool with no participant, a withdrawal left while its row said failed and its coins were spendable again. - client: ElectrumRpcError (subclass of ElectrumError) is raised only for a reply carrying a JSON-RPC `error`; timeouts, drops and write errors stay plain ElectrumError. - tx/outcome.py:broadcast_with_verdict sorts a broadcast into accepted / refused / uncertain. A refusal is verified first: ElectrumListener.transaction_known asks blockchain.transaction.get of the active server and every other one (10s each) — any server returning the tx means accepted; the active server plus MIN_QUORUM_RESPONSES others all denying it means refused (ALLOW_NO_QUORUM keeps the reduced rule); too few answers is uncertain. "already known" wording is only a shortcut that skips the check. With no network to ask, a refusal is uncertain. - place_bet / request_withdrawal / _trigger_payout use it: only a verified refusal releases; uncertain leaves the rows building for the reconciler, publishes SSE and POST /bets and POST /withdrawals answer 202 with status building; "already known" promotes a payout (payout_sent) like any accepted broadcast. - An accepted transaction is fanned out to every other server (ElectrumListener.fan_out_transaction, best effort, off the caller's path). The RBF replacement in bump_fee is left for B-77, which rewrites that function. Tests changed because the spec changed: the existing "refused broadcast" tests raised a bare RuntimeError (now an uncertain outcome) and are made explicit refusals (rpc_error) with a network that denies the tx; direct route calls pass a Response; FakePayoutListener gains the network surface. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PLM Lottery
A periodic-round lottery system built on PLM, a Bitcoin-like coin (mainnet). Each user gets a dedicated server-derived P2WPKH address; they deposit PLM to that address, place a fixed-cost bet to enter the current round, and when the round closes a winner is drawn who receives 70% of the prize pool (the remaining 30% goes to fees).
This is a custodial system: private keys are generated and held server-side, encrypted at rest. See CLAUDE.md for the full architecture, domain decisions, and known gaps before treating this as production-ready.
Quick start
The server always runs via Docker (app + Caddy reverse proxy with automatic
TLS) — in dev and production alike, with only SITE_ADDRESS differing
between the two. There's no supported way to run uvicorn directly; the
venv is only for local tooling (tests, Alembic migrations, the one-time key
scripts) — see CLAUDE.md.
cp .env.example .env # then fill in the generated secrets, see docs/setup.md
mkdir -p data/db data/keys data/logs
docker compose run --rm app python scripts/generate_master_key.py
docker compose up -d --build
Open https://localhost/ for the test UI, https://localhost/admin for the
admin dashboard (a self-signed-certificate warning on first visit is
expected in dev — accept it, or use curl -k). The interactive API docs at
/docs are disabled by default (they'd otherwise expose the whole API
surface, admin endpoints included) — set ENABLE_API_DOCS=true in .env to
enable them.
See docs/setup.md and docs/running-the-server.md for the full walkthrough (secrets, master key generation, production TLS with a real domain).
Documentation
- CLAUDE.md — architecture, commands, domain decisions, known gaps (for anyone/anything working on the code)
- docs/README.md — index of all documentation (docs-first, single source of truth, one ADR per decision: docs/adr/)
- docs/come-funziona.md — the specification (Italian): how the platform works, with diagrams and traceable requirement IDs; it indexes every per-topic document (flows, architecture, data model, API, security, audit log, operations, decisions and limits, bug history). docs/processo-di-modifica.md describes how a change goes from the spec to the code
- docs/setup.md — one-time setup (secrets, master key, migrations)
- docs/running-the-server.md — how to launch it with Docker+Caddy (dev vs. production TLS)
- docs/guida-utente.md — end-user guide to the test UI (Italian)
- docs/guida-admin.md — admin dashboard guide (Italian)
Tech stack
Python (FastAPI, SQLAlchemy async + Alembic, Argon2 + JWT auth), Electrum protocol for PLM network access (no full node), Docker + Caddy for deployment. See CLAUDE.md for the complete list and the reasoning behind each choice.
Testing
python -m pytest # all tests
python -m pytest tests/unit/test_hd.py # one file
463 unit tests cover HD derivation, PSBT building, the Electrum client, bets, deposits, withdrawals, the round/draw engine, RBF fee-bumping, admin config, the pending-inclusive balance calculation, and the SSE push channel. No automated integration tests against a live Electrum connection — mainnet verification so far has been manual (see CLAUDE.md's "Project status").