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Bitcoin Runner (BTCR) is a roguelike. You control a Runner who scours randomly generated Mazes in search of Relics of the past before the Mazes are devoured by the Nothing.
The unique facet is that the game is tied to the Bitcoin blockchain. Approximately every 10 minutes Bitcoin produces another block that contains over ~1900 transactions. These transactions are the foundations for the maps within the Mazes. All the transactions are evenly divided into 100 levels and each transaction hash becomes the seed for the map generator. The maps vary in size between 64 by 64 all the way up to massive 300 by 300 maps based upon the size and value of the BTC in the transaction. Each map is also randomly linked to the other maps on the same level - creating a vast web of maps to be explored.
The goal is to explore each map and the maze and find the relics hidden within. These along with other treasures are randomly placed in each map, and their value is determined by the transaction. The game automatically saves your runners progress and the treasure and relics they collect give your Runner a score.
Since block 480000 the app has been randomly selecting blocks to run. There are only a few mazes to run at any one time and everyone will run the same ones. Be warned though - each Maze only remains open for a short period of time: exactly 36 blocks. Blocks occur about every 10 minutes, but this can vary depending upon the network, so each maze will only remain open for roughly 6 hours. And if your runner remains in the maze once the time is up they will be lost forever.
Run fast!
How to Play
Movement
You can move up, down, left, and right by using the arrow keys or the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen. You can only move on the dots.
Icons
Roadmap
V 0.1 - Current Capability
V 0.2
V 0.3
Character improvement - basic Pathfinder RPG rules for Fighter and Thief
Libraries
BTCR is built using the following libraries:
This app relies on Blockexplorer.com for blockchain data.
This game is released freely and will always remain free to play because the grace of God is available freely through His son Jesus Christ.
You have the JTeam promise that this game will always remain free to play and open source under the GNU GPLv3 license.
Donations are welcome. Any donations you make will help fund development.
The unique facet is that the game is tied to the Bitcoin blockchain. Approximately every 10 minutes Bitcoin produces another block that contains over ~1900 transactions. These transactions are the foundations for the maps within the Mazes. All the transactions are evenly divided into 100 levels and each transaction hash becomes the seed for the map generator. The maps vary in size between 64 by 64 all the way up to massive 300 by 300 maps based upon the size and value of the BTC in the transaction. Each map is also randomly linked to the other maps on the same level - creating a vast web of maps to be explored.
The goal is to explore each map and the maze and find the relics hidden within. These along with other treasures are randomly placed in each map, and their value is determined by the transaction. The game automatically saves your runners progress and the treasure and relics they collect give your Runner a score.
Since block 480000 the app has been randomly selecting blocks to run. There are only a few mazes to run at any one time and everyone will run the same ones. Be warned though - each Maze only remains open for a short period of time: exactly 36 blocks. Blocks occur about every 10 minutes, but this can vary depending upon the network, so each maze will only remain open for roughly 6 hours. And if your runner remains in the maze once the time is up they will be lost forever.
Run fast!
How to Play
Movement
You can move up, down, left, and right by using the arrow keys or the arrow buttons at the bottom of the screen. You can only move on the dots.
Icons
- @ - Your character.
- . - An open spot that your character can move to.
- ฿ - You can find treasure here. We would use the bitcoin symbol (₿) but not every browser recognizes it yet. Most is treasure - only one on every map is a relic.
- # - Stairs leading up or down a level.
- . or A-Z - An exit from the current map to another map on the same level. Dots represent unexplored exits, while letters have been explored and lead to that specific map.
Roadmap
V 0.1 - Current Capability
- Load bitcoin block & transaction data from remote server (Blockchain.com)
- Generate 100 levels from blockchain data (Chance)
- Maintain 36 block window
- Generate maps from transaction data (rot.js)
- Display maps (rot.js)
- Display level map links (D3.js)
- Generate and randomly place basic relics and treasure
- Simple characters - movement only
- Field of View
- Move between maps and levels
- Save state - save view, characters, and relics/treasures claimed (localForage)
V 0.2
- Room based maps (not just caverns)
- More complex characters - XP, skills and levels
- Traps
V 0.3
Character improvement - basic Pathfinder RPG rules for Fighter and Thief
Libraries
BTCR is built using the following libraries:
- rot.js - A roguelike toolkit for JS. Handles map generation and display.
- Chance - Seeded random generation toolkit.
- D3.js - Display data on Canvas and in SVG.
- Vue.js - Responsive frontend for handling user input and state changes.
- jQuery - Used by Bootstrap for DOM manipulation as well as getting block info from the server.
- Bootstrap - Library for quick GUI development.
- Noty - Library for popup notification.
- localForage - Storage backend for app.
- socket.io - Simple websocket communication with the server.
This app relies on Blockexplorer.com for blockchain data.
This game is released freely and will always remain free to play because the grace of God is available freely through His son Jesus Christ.
You have the JTeam promise that this game will always remain free to play and open source under the GNU GPLv3 license.
Donations are welcome. Any donations you make will help fund development.
- Bitcoin: 1GFurdWWKhziVEVjw8uyGJWSfpfjMo5cUA
- Ethereum: 0xe7e02aa5333c6a8861C4db4135468dFbEFA031c0
- Iota: Z9UM9RKTBVXIRRDLBVJOTNZUNJZNH9AXFLMBFPULJSNJGRQQQDVYDHIJKLKNJAEKCLWUTVZQRHN9XQX PYXMPMCSLVX
Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMS, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Pearl, Recent Mandatory Update
Do I have to do anything on a win machine to get it to read the bootstrap file?
I've tried it twice now - with the file in the clams admin folder and nothing...
I've tried it twice now - with the file in the clams admin folder and nothing...
Re: [ANN][CLAM] CLAMS, Proof-Of-Chain, Proof-Of-Pearl, Recent Mandatory Update
Any way to get to know how many CLAMS are "active" in the wild
I know there are millions possibly, but it would be nice to determine how many are staking...
I know there are millions possibly, but it would be nice to determine how many are staking...
Rammy2k2,
keep us posted on what you see on their fb page, most us have been censored on their page by being banned by that jackass opperman.
keep us posted on what you see on their fb page, most us have been censored on their page by being banned by that jackass opperman.
Not likely. If you know the history of the Afrikaner you would understand that it takes more than a PC screen to make us shiver and hide
Anyway,I thought Josh would like to know : Today's Trading Pool results: 0.85% (7/10/2014)
And there was problems with the server that needs to download the blockchain again.
Does this mean they will continue payouts today?
There were some issues that might take a bit longer to rectify. It is only the btc withdrawals that are not processing. If you cash out with the other processors it should work.
So if I select LTC payout, it ll work today? This has been confirmed?
I tried LTC yesterday - that did not work.
As an US citizen the only other route I had was PAYEER.
And that did work - yesterday. As I posted.
Here's my facts.
Knowing there was an "issue" with BTC yesterday. I requested my cashout be canceled. Then I converted my BTC to PAYEER. And then I requested a PAYEER cashout. This PAYEER cashout was completed today...
Knowing there was an "issue" with BTC yesterday. I requested my cashout be canceled. Then I converted my BTC to PAYEER. And then I requested a PAYEER cashout. This PAYEER cashout was completed today...
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Date: 07.10.2014 19:44:29
ID: 27698709
Details: P6102698 → P9152221
Amount: 89.77 $
ID: 27698709
Details: P6102698 → P9152221
Amount: 89.77 $
Re: [TEK] TEKcoin Mandatory Update! 40%+ SuperStake in 30+ days
yea - not looking great
installed new wallet - restored wallet.dat - synced wallet
first POS is about half what the one was from last chain, so not only did I lose the extra weight that they had setup, but I didn't even get the 40%. I got about 30%
my second POS mined payment has been sitting at 0 of 3 confimations for 4 hours?!? Is that to be expected?
(lemme say again - ugh)
installed new wallet - restored wallet.dat - synced wallet
first POS is about half what the one was from last chain, so not only did I lose the extra weight that they had setup, but I didn't even get the 40%. I got about 30%
my second POS mined payment has been sitting at 0 of 3 confimations for 4 hours?!? Is that to be expected?
(lemme say again - ugh)
Think of it this way...TEK has become more rare. Hold your TEK, don't sell it for these values.
The price to play has gone up ladies an gentlemen.
Re: [TEK] TEKcoin Mandatory Update! 40%+ SuperStake in 30+ days
Everyone...if TEK uses Novacoin code for staking...which I believe it does.
The Stake % is variable depending upon the coins that are staking on the network.
Thus if there are a lot of coins staking - as there are - the stake percentage will go down. This is AS DESIGNED to fight inflation.
The Stake % is variable depending upon the coins that are staking on the network.
Thus if there are a lot of coins staking - as there are - the stake percentage will go down. This is AS DESIGNED to fight inflation.
Re: [TEK] TEKcoin sha256 PoS/Pow 40%+ SuperStake in 30+ days
I admit I'm in the top ten holders of TEK. I never want to dump, but I would like to see profits.
If anyone is ever interested in buying large amounts of TEK (1000+) in one shot, just PM me. We'll set up an escrow and get it done.
If anyone is ever interested in buying large amounts of TEK (1000+) in one shot, just PM me. We'll set up an escrow and get it done.
So, I had another thought. And call me crazy, but I'm going to throw it out there. What about a POS coin with demurrage.
The "problem" with POS coins: "inflation." Everyone wants high stake, but wants to control inflation. So we set a max coin cap, or we decrease the stake percentage over time to some eventual minimal inflation.
However, the attraction of the POS coin is that you can earn high %. But when that goes away the excitement is gone many seek greener pastures and newer coins with newer features.
That's where demurrage comes in, or negative stake (nstake). A coin could always offer high positive stake (pstake) because it will never suffer from inflation due to its nstake. The theory is that the nstake has a flag that is set when a number of coins is reached and increases to slow the pstake. Once a second coin point is reach nstake is increased above pstake to bring the coins down. It is a hysteresis effect to avoid market shock. There would be an ebb and flow around a soft coin cap chosen by the dev team.
Such a coin would have to have two stake ages computed: nstake age and pstake age. Nstake age would have to be faster than pstake age to hit every wallet - something like 6 hours. While pstake age would be longer: a day, 3 days, whatever.
In theory the coins would congregate to the clients that spend the most time staking. In other words the network would pay the nodes that do the most work for it by securing it.
Example coin:
POW coins: 0.5 mil
Minimum Coins: 1 mil
Maximum Coins: 2 mil
PStake: 100% @ 7 days
NStakeMax = 115%
NStake= ncoins/maxcoins * 100%
if(ncoins>0.7*max coins){
do{nstake= nstakemax}
while (ncoins>mincoins)
}
Assuming EVERYONE stakes - not likely, but a possibility
Year 0: 0.5 mil coins; nstake = 25% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 111%
Year 1: 1.05 mil coins; nstake = 53% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 60%
Year 2: 1.68 mil coins; nstake = 84% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 17%
Year 3: 1.44 mil coins; nstake = 115% ; effective stake w/ compounding = -15%
Year 4: 1.24 mil coins; nstake = 115% ; effective stake w/ compounding = -15%
Year 5: 1.06 mil coins; nstake = 115% ; effective stake w/ compounding = -15%
Year 6: 1.05 mil coins; nstake = 53% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 60%
That is only one example. You could change the nstake curve to increase the number of years a coin stakes with positive interest. And you could also increase the NStakeMax percentage to decrease the number of years of contraction - of course that may be more of a shock.
Lots of variables to play with. If nothing else, it could be a fun experiment.
The "problem" with POS coins: "inflation." Everyone wants high stake, but wants to control inflation. So we set a max coin cap, or we decrease the stake percentage over time to some eventual minimal inflation.
However, the attraction of the POS coin is that you can earn high %. But when that goes away the excitement is gone many seek greener pastures and newer coins with newer features.
That's where demurrage comes in, or negative stake (nstake). A coin could always offer high positive stake (pstake) because it will never suffer from inflation due to its nstake. The theory is that the nstake has a flag that is set when a number of coins is reached and increases to slow the pstake. Once a second coin point is reach nstake is increased above pstake to bring the coins down. It is a hysteresis effect to avoid market shock. There would be an ebb and flow around a soft coin cap chosen by the dev team.
Such a coin would have to have two stake ages computed: nstake age and pstake age. Nstake age would have to be faster than pstake age to hit every wallet - something like 6 hours. While pstake age would be longer: a day, 3 days, whatever.
In theory the coins would congregate to the clients that spend the most time staking. In other words the network would pay the nodes that do the most work for it by securing it.
Example coin:
POW coins: 0.5 mil
Minimum Coins: 1 mil
Maximum Coins: 2 mil
PStake: 100% @ 7 days
NStakeMax = 115%
NStake= ncoins/maxcoins * 100%
if(ncoins>0.7*max coins){
do{nstake= nstakemax}
while (ncoins>mincoins)
}
Assuming EVERYONE stakes - not likely, but a possibility
Year 0: 0.5 mil coins; nstake = 25% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 111%
Year 1: 1.05 mil coins; nstake = 53% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 60%
Year 2: 1.68 mil coins; nstake = 84% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 17%
Year 3: 1.44 mil coins; nstake = 115% ; effective stake w/ compounding = -15%
Year 4: 1.24 mil coins; nstake = 115% ; effective stake w/ compounding = -15%
Year 5: 1.06 mil coins; nstake = 115% ; effective stake w/ compounding = -15%
Year 6: 1.05 mil coins; nstake = 53% ; effective stake w/ compounding = 60%
That is only one example. You could change the nstake curve to increase the number of years a coin stakes with positive interest. And you could also increase the NStakeMax percentage to decrease the number of years of contraction - of course that may be more of a shock.
Lots of variables to play with. If nothing else, it could be a fun experiment.
Re: [TEK] TEKcoin sha256 PoS/Pow 40%+ SuperStake in 30+ days
I posted this over on the HBN thread...but I think it is applicable to all of the coins from the old guard...
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But I think for HBN - or any alt from the old guard - CAP, TEK, PHS, to reach the next level we need to think about including some new features.
I was actually just thinking about it this morning as I was trying to sort through all of the various wallets I have running at any one time
New coins are released every day. Why? Everyone is trying to "one-up" the other with new features and gizmos and widgets. Or they're simple copies with a few parameters tweaked. They're trying to attract miners and investors to become the next big thing.
Now what if some of those devs and communities - instead of chasing after new coins - looked back at what has been produced and try to evolutionarily develop the old coins. So many of the new coins demonstrate spiral development - phase 1, 2, 17, XYZ. With promises of Tor, SMS, and making waffles. Why can't we do the same to the coins we already have with the devs that we know are capable and "in it" for the long term.
Coins are open source - most are on GitHub. Right? What stops us from pitching into to a dev fund and requesting the devs pull these new features from the coin of the week into the coins we already have? Pick your anonymity flavor - NightSend, SuperSend, Tor, Cloak, ABCXYZ Pick your berries and sprinkles, release a new wallet, and BAM!
Hey, I say hard fork if you have to. The base is established and I bet the switch won't be a problem. The old wood will be left behind and the new will grow stronger.
If it can be done, I bet we'll all see a return
Now I use "dev" in the generic sense. But I realize right now most of the older coins only have one dev to lean on. Devs are spread thin. And that is where I believe the issue lies. A dev has his priorities and I can't disagree with them - the coin is stable.
So how does a coin and a community pull more devs? So we include more features?
Is it all about the BTC? Initially perhaps for some.
Here I am talking, but I can't code beyond HTML and JS. So because I can't code I am willing to pitch in BTC or HBN...
Food for thought.
I was actually just thinking about it this morning as I was trying to sort through all of the various wallets I have running at any one time
New coins are released every day. Why? Everyone is trying to "one-up" the other with new features and gizmos and widgets. Or they're simple copies with a few parameters tweaked. They're trying to attract miners and investors to become the next big thing.
Now what if some of those devs and communities - instead of chasing after new coins - looked back at what has been produced and try to evolutionarily develop the old coins. So many of the new coins demonstrate spiral development - phase 1, 2, 17, XYZ. With promises of Tor, SMS, and making waffles. Why can't we do the same to the coins we already have with the devs that we know are capable and "in it" for the long term.
Coins are open source - most are on GitHub. Right? What stops us from pitching into to a dev fund and requesting the devs pull these new features from the coin of the week into the coins we already have? Pick your anonymity flavor - NightSend, SuperSend, Tor, Cloak, ABCXYZ Pick your berries and sprinkles, release a new wallet, and BAM!
Hey, I say hard fork if you have to. The base is established and I bet the switch won't be a problem. The old wood will be left behind and the new will grow stronger.
If it can be done, I bet we'll all see a return
Now I use "dev" in the generic sense. But I realize right now most of the older coins only have one dev to lean on. Devs are spread thin. And that is where I believe the issue lies. A dev has his priorities and I can't disagree with them - the coin is stable.
So how does a coin and a community pull more devs? So we include more features?
Is it all about the BTC? Initially perhaps for some.
Here I am talking, but I can't code beyond HTML and JS. So because I can't code I am willing to pitch in BTC or HBN...
Food for thought.
Re: HoboNickels - HBN - Fast High Reward PoS - Advanced Wallet - Fun Community. V1.4
Hi tranz, thanks for your ongoing input into Nickels, we are glad that Nickels has a dev like you.
Going forward we need to think of Nickels as an early competitor like the way websites were in the 90's when the internet was born.
Who won and who lost were the guys that came up with the best ideas to get traffic and today the end result is GOOGLE.
As we can see that all the other alts are trying different ideas to capture the crowd. Anybody here or outside this forum is helping if they are positively promoting Nickels. That for starters is what we need. Positive promotion.
We need to look at what features that a wallet needs to have to make it easy to intergrate with websites.
The wallet could have a chat/social platform were users can tip
I have seen cloakcoin with its own trading platform in the wallet
The key to any coins success right now is the ability to create a killer wallet and market the coin like storm.
I think I have said this somewhere. Marketing can make or break.
Going forward we need to think of Nickels as an early competitor like the way websites were in the 90's when the internet was born.
Who won and who lost were the guys that came up with the best ideas to get traffic and today the end result is GOOGLE.
As we can see that all the other alts are trying different ideas to capture the crowd. Anybody here or outside this forum is helping if they are positively promoting Nickels. That for starters is what we need. Positive promotion.
We need to look at what features that a wallet needs to have to make it easy to intergrate with websites.
The wallet could have a chat/social platform were users can tip
I have seen cloakcoin with its own trading platform in the wallet
The key to any coins success right now is the ability to create a killer wallet and market the coin like storm.
I think I have said this somewhere. Marketing can make or break.
Often times these types of things are easier said than done. We all have to take a step back and realize Tranz's priorities, from what I understand they are:
1 - to ensure the wallets and network are safe from attack and abuse and that value can be stored without risk of losing the coins
2 - fix any bugs or problems with the existing wallet that causes users to be confused or client to crash
3 - charity work (may be higher on the list, this is just a guess)
4 - helping others learn
5 - GUI
6 - marketing
With suggestions like "create a trading platform that is inside the wallet", it might be easiest to help Tranz to do this by building the framework and submitting a pull request when it is ready. I am sure Tranz is a real person with a family and full time job and that HBN is an almost full time hobby. So maybe the best thing would be to create some code for Tranz to look at?
I really enjoy the PoS conversation, but I am going to pull this back up, because I think it is worth talking about a little bit more.
First, I think Tranz is great. He has done an awesome job - with HBN and CAP. Awesome. His work is top notch. And his openness with the community is amazing. God bless him for that.
But I think for HBN - or any alt from the old guard - CAP, TEK, PHS, to reach the next level we need to think about including some of these new features.
I was actually just thinking about it this morning as I was trying to sort through all of the various wallets I have running at any one time
New coins are released every day. Why? Everyone is trying to "one-up" the other with new features and gizmos and widgets. Or they're simple copies with a few parameters tweaked. They're trying to attract miners and investors to become the next big thing.
Now what if some of those devs and communities - instead of chasing after new coins - looked back at what has been produced and try to evolutionarily develop the old coins. So many of the new coins demonstrate spiral development - phase 1, 2, 17, XYZ. With promises of Tor, SMS, and making waffles. Why can't we do the same to the coins we already have with the devs that we know are capable and "in it" for the long term.
Coins are open source - most are on GitHub. Right? What stops us from pitching into to a dev fund and requesting the devs pull these new features from the coin of the week into the coins we already have? Pick your anonymity flavor - NightSend, SuperSend, Tor, Cloak, ABCXYZ Pick your berries and sprinkles, release a new wallet, and BAM!
Hey, I say hard fork if you have to. The base is established and I bet the switch won't be a problem. The old wood will be left behind and the new will grow stronger.
If it can be done, I bet we'll all see a return
Now I use "dev" in the generic sense. But I realize right now most of the older coins only have one dev to lean on. Devs are spread thin. And that is where I believe the issue lies. Tranz is great and he has his priorities and I agree with them.
So how does a coin and a community pull more devs? So we include more features?
Is it all about the BTC? Initially perhaps for some.
Here I am talking, but I can't code beyond HTML and JS. So because I can't code I am willing to pitch in BTC or HBN...
Food for thought.
Did anyone check the source code for why?
I checked ONLY or stake...at it appears to be in there. @6 hrs