A user could bet and then double-spend the 1-conference deposit that funded the bet with a private chain: the bet left the chain but its participant stayed `confirmed`, and the payout failed "insufficient pool UTXOs" for ever with everyone else's money stuck. Coinbase outputs were also credited at 1 confirmation (maturity is 120). Deposits - `round_config.deposit_confirmations` (default 6, 1-100, editable from /admin) is the threshold for a deposit; an output of a platform transaction (any txid of a pending_transactions row, RBF versions included) keeps 1; a coinbase output needs 120, recognised from the raw transaction, which must hash to the txid (`is_coinbase`, cached). `read_deposit_policy` / `classify_new_deposits` run between the read and the write, so no session is open across the lookup. - The quorum must also place the coin deep enough on our own tip (ELC-17). - Confirmed outputs short of their threshold are pending deposits (memory only, replaced at every refresh): shown in `pending_balance_sats` / `has_pending` (also for DEP-13's withdrawal message), never spendable. No scripthash notification announces a maturing deposit, so each new block refreshes only the users that have one, one task per user (DEP-09 now says so). Payout - `_trigger_payout` verifies the round's confirmed participants' bet outputs with the other servers (`verify_pool_outpoints`: strict majority of >= 2 answers per outpoint, a mempool-only coin or a tie gives no verdict) and builds from exactly those outpoints (RND-22), never from whatever else sits at the address. No quorum: `payout_failed`, `pool verification unavailable`, nothing changes. Bets that are gone become `reorged_out`, one `participant_reorged_out` row each, `pool_amount_sats` rewritten (only downward) in the same transaction, and the 70/30 split is computed on what is left. - Winner's own bet gone: nothing is built; `rounds.payout_blocked_at` (Alembic f2c64a8d1e93, with `deposit_confirmations`, plain add_column) is set, `payout_blocked` and the pause with `paused_reason = 'payout_blocked'` are written in one transaction; `POST /admin/resume` clears the mark and the next attempt verifies again. /admin/rounds returns it. - Rounds opened before B-80 (pool = the shared reserve address) keep the old active-server `listunspent` choice, since that address holds no single round's bets. Ambiguities resolved: the winner's row stays `confirmed` while held (AUD-45 says every participant whose bet is gone becomes `reorged_out`, but OPS-30/DAT-68 need the verification to repeat after the resume, which only a `confirmed` row allows); `/`'s deposit hint no longer says "1 confirmation" (7 languages, same keys); guides updated. Tests changed because the spec changed: listener tests that credited height-100 coins at tip 0 now set a tip past every threshold; the payout fixtures seed confirmed participants (the new source of the inputs) instead of an active-server `listunspent`, FakeNetwork answers the verification, and test_round_pool_address asserts the quorum is asked about the round's address. New: thresholds at exactly 6/5, configured value, coinbase at 119/120 and a mismatching or missing raw tx, platform outputs at 1, dust, quorum height, waiting-deposit display and disappearance, block-triggered refresh, resume, verification verdicts, gone bets excluded with the split recomputed, winner gone held and paused, held payouts untouched until the resume, re-verification after it, no quorum, a payout with 1 and with 400 participants against reserve+fee+dust, admin config bounds and migration. Mutation-checked: threshold 1, ignored coinbase, no height bound, no verification and no winner hold each fail tests. 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
670 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").