davideandClaude Opus 5 daf66fd6bc Fix the round-open race, the advertised jackpot, and payout error handling
Round opening (B-09). open_new_round_if_needed now handles the IntegrityError
from ix_rounds_single_active (previous commit) by rolling back and using the
winner's round. Deviation from the plan in BUGS.md, which proposed making the
scheduler the only writer: that would mean the first bet after a cooldown
couldn't open a round, so both callers stay and a bounded retry was added
instead — a conflict where nothing is active yet just means the winner hadn't
committed, and a bet must not fail on that timing. get_active_round also logs
loudly if it ever sees more than one active round rather than silently picking
the newest.

The jackpot (B-11). It was participant_count * the *current* bet_amount_sats,
which overstated the pool (each stored bet is already net of that bet's network
fee) and silently rewrote the advertised jackpot of a round in progress whenever
an operator edited the bet amount. It now sums the participants' stored
bet_amount_sats. The remaining imprecision — the payout tx's own fee, deducted
from the winner's share and unknowable until the payout is built — is documented
in the code rather than promised away, since the comment there claimed exactness.

Payout (B-05, B-18). _trigger_payout is split into read / build+broadcast /
persist, so no DB session is held across a network call (on SQLite that meant
holding the write lock for two unbounded round-trips). That restructuring is also
what makes the error handling placeable: it now catches Exception around the
chain work and writes a payout_failed audit entry, where a malformed fee_address
used to raise EmbitError all the way to the scheduler's catch-all, leaving the
round stuck in paying_out with nothing recorded about why. Automatic payout retry
remains an open gap.

The scheduler also counts "building" participants as in-flight when deciding
whether a round may close, matching the two-phase bet write.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 00:32:22 +02:00
2026-07-21 11:14:56 +02:00

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

cp .env.example .env               # then fill in the generated secrets, see docs/setup.md
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e ".[dev]"
PYTHONPATH=. python scripts/generate_master_key.py
alembic upgrade head
uvicorn app.main:app --reload --port 8123

Open http://127.0.0.1:8123/ for the test UI, http://127.0.0.1:8123/admin for the admin dashboard, http://127.0.0.1:8123/docs for the interactive API docs.

Or run the whole stack (app + Caddy reverse proxy with automatic TLS) via Docker:

mkdir -p data/db data/keys data/logs
docker compose run --rm app python scripts/generate_master_key.py
docker compose up -d --build

See docs/setup.md and docs/running-the-server.md for the full walkthrough (both workflows, dev vs. production TLS).

Documentation

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

76 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").

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