Re: 🌟 ⚡🚀ANN: GATCOIN Blockchain Rewards Program for Mainstream Retailers🌟 ⚡🚀
The system will be for online and offline, the A-Drop system allows merchants to drop coins in a geographic location which will benefit offline locations, we envisions merchants holding treasure hunts with various vouchers and the end destination being their store or event. Pokemon Go with real world prizes! Additionally the A-drop system will let merchants to send tokens directly in to the wallets of their target customers, like an electronics chain sending a promotion to every male, who has spent more than $500 on electronics in the last year in New York. This can drive traffic to both online and offline stores!
This system is explained in our System Overview https://www.gatcoin.io/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/170928v2-GATCOIN-System-Overview.pdf
Is your A-Drop system able to recognize if a user tries to fake his geographic location with a GPS spoofing app to get the tokens airdropped to his wallet?
But what's the problem? I mean - if you have to be on a given, offline shop to use those tokens... GPS spoofing won't teleport yourself into any location, so you'll end with useless (for you) tokens on your app.
I thought the idea behind all of this is that these merchant tokens are tradeable on the GAT exchange. So if someone teleports to a location for the airdrop and he can, in the end sell, these token on the GAT exchange for GAT tokens, it's pretty obvious that these A-drop system will be abused.
Let the devs speak then. But GPS spoofing systems are not impossible to block. Look at Pokemon Go for instance, GPS cheaters are blocked and banned.
Of course there is the possibility to block users that used GPS spoofing but I don't know if they can legally close such accounts. Would be really interesting to hear a statement from one of the team.
Well, the banned/blocked accounts can be unbanned/unblocked by contacting the support.
Of course we will work to discourage and, when possible, block GPS spoofing. However, as @stormcleric and @Sozialtourist pointed out, even if a user has GPS spoofing for an airdrop you will need to go to the store to use it. If you can't do that, then you can trade the tokens in the system for another. That's how the GATCOIN System is meant to work. Someone else will then get those Merchant Tokens and use them. So both customers and the merchant all get what the want in the end.
Everyone can get what they want more cheaply.