Hello, I'm software engineer, focused on backend mostly. Have a look at my LinkedIn profile for further references:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jordi-walter-hoock-castro-10105696

If your interested working together send me a pm.

It's a HYIP. no one in this forum will fall for this, as they said earlier, maybe someone with luck will be able to earn something, but this will collapse mathematically, there is no real product behind, no real revenues, just new members pay old members, as soon as people stop register, stop depositing money and everyone wants to cashout, you're fucked.

Wy do you think that someone would invest into this? it's just a scam.

I totally disagree with the captcha thing. Google has it's noRecaptcha v3 that doesn't require any human intervention to solve a captcha, it just intercepts user behaviour and analyzes it to determine whetever its a bot or a human, so in that sense someone plugin in an automatic software to the website I would discard that option.

My concern is that you could indeed just go to a checkers solver website, paste the current board state, solve it and then just "copy and paste" the moves, that would indeed be something that I couldn't know.

I was thinking of the possibility to check whetever the user always does the perfect move, but then I have another problem, could it just be that someone really experienced can hit 10x times the perfect move in a row? or is it because he is using some assistance.

And te thing with driving cars is a bit offtopic, but, you an't "fix" a mistake on an AI, what you can do is train them with thousands of datasets. And I will say, they won't be perfect and never be, there are thousands of billions of combinations of real life situations an AI can't be trained because peope working on that just don't have that large set of real life combinations, what indeed will happen is as people drive these cars, they learn, and learn, but that's something but will take years to perfection, so no, automatic cars won't be perfect, and it will take time to be perfect, if they can get at that point.

Hello,

I'm selling this software I developed over the past of the year, here is all the info + images:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5209636.0

Contact me privately.

Thanks Patatas, Making sure that a bot will  not access to the game is actually not that complicated, (I could trigger a captcha each 5 min, or randomly during the game) my concers is what other users mentioned, third party software where you can input current state of a board and the user would just copy that over to the site, how could I solve this issue?

I saw some comment of a guy in chess.com proposing a solution.

If a user always does the "perfect move" then it might could indicate that the user is cheating, but could it be the case of a real user making the perfect move always in row?  whats the chance of that happening?

Anyway I'm happy to see people supporting and liking the idea, but I need a solution to the mentioned above

Thanks all for the good words. Not sure what to do next based on the opinions but I think they're right.

The problems:
- Legal
- Cheating

Is it really needed to have a company setup and any regulation at all? I mean, i'm not handling usd deposits, only crypto. Here in Spain crypto are not considered an asset.

Cheating, there is probably no way around this, maybe some kind of trust system?

Anyway, maybe I'll give it a go to sell it, if not, I just jump to another idea.

Hello,

I had this question in mind, since many of my trades with an adjusted stop loss got triggered, but then the market goes in the direction I wanted, but since it got triggered basically im out. I know this is due to big fishes messing around.

What do you guys think, is stop loss something or, or not so good?

Yea, make sense, then I think I can just throw this away and work on another idea. Could I still sell this project to someone interested, you know some place where I can sell this? I mean, I invested over a year of my time into this, ofcourse it started as a side project to learn, but it started to grow and grow until I got this idea, but well, not wasted at all.

Quick question, all bitcoin casinos or gambling site with crypto do they have licene? all of them?

Thanks for reply. I would not say, "Bearable", There is some more progress than in the pictures.

And about the license, you are right, I'm not an legal expert, but I had in mind no license, not sure if it's needed since, it's not gambling nor "real betting", it's not like sport where you bet for a team, or you gamble against the casino, not sure if this applies here, here in Spain cryptocurrency is not considered as a currency. Maybe there could be a legal void to workaround? Like using different terms, or buying something in the website that allows you to play, something like coins that have 1:1 value tied to bitcoin, not sure.


I was totally unaware of this, honestly. How could I write a cheating software to detect something like this? maybe like a trust system?

And btw, no one told me yet if its a good idea and if you would use this kind of service, would appreciate this feedback.

Thanks all for the help.

At the end I decided to post it in Project Development as MVP, to get some feedback, for the more serious post when everything is finished I post it to Service Anouncement sections.

Here is the post: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5209636.msg53347078#msg53347078

Please feedback!!

Hello, I want to present the project I'm curently working on, I'm aiming to finish the MVP (currently at 80%).

Who am I?
I'm a Software Engineer, currently I have a full time job as Software Engineer (Java, PHP, node.JS, AWS mainly).

What is this project about?
Cryptocheckers is a place where users can play checkers competetively (10x10 board) online against other people (real persons) placing bets. For example, you start a match and get paired, you are in the betting room for (0.0005BTC), let's suppose you win, you will get +0.0005BTC to your account, if you loose, you lost the btc, simple as that. But, the beauty of this is it's not like a casino games where everything depends upon pure luck, and in the long run the casino always wins due the house edge, in this case, it's a skill based game, the more experience and skill you have, the more chances you have to win, its a skill that can be developed and improved.

Team & Time spent developing current state
So, currently I'm the only one and I've been working on this over a year now, since I cant spend all the time I would like to since I have a full time job, but, if this project works and succeeds I will take the decision to leave my job and work on this project fully and even start other skill based games.

Some Images:
Register


Profile (Needs pulishment)



Game Client - Waiting


Fees:
There will be a small fee that only the winner has to pay, the looser won't pay any fee. The fee is not decided but at the beggining it will be very low. Anyway, I'm open to ideas and changes, so lets talk!

Game Client - In Game
- Abandon button needs ui work
- Right panel showing the moves also needs more work



Currently Working Features
Website:
- Login
- Register
- Deposit
- Cashout
- Profile (needs some UI work)
- Referring users - You get paid for users who registered under you and play.

Game:
- Matching engine (match players based on their betting room) - This will also be improved, the pairing system will be done with a ELO ranking syste, to make matches more fair.
- Play the game
- Decide Win, loss, tie by one of the following conditions:
-- Opponent has no more pieces left
-- All opponent pieces are blocked
-- Tie after 25 movements without a piece being eaten
- Recover/Panic mode: The state of all board are stored every 3 seconds, in case a server dies, the state of the boards are stored and can be recovered automatically
- Abandon the game
- Turn timeout
- Strike System, when you miss your turn you get striked, at 3 strikes you get kicked and lose automatically
- Sounds: When your opponent finishes turn you get notified with sound

The Game itself is mostly done, where most of the work needs to be done is on the website and UI.

Missing Features
- Homepage
- Pulish profile
- Add more social elements (like having a friend list)
- Add a chat to the game (maybe?)
- Ideas are welcome (?)
- Add Google NoCaptcha V3 to check humanity without interrupting the user flow

Those in bold are required to deliver the MVP

Infraestructure
- Self hosted rancher+kubernetes solution to orchestrate containers
- Website backend: Java + Springboot
- Game Backend: Node.JS + Socket.IO
- Game Caching: MongoDB
- UI: Bootstrap + VUE.JS
- Domain (.IO), SSL Certificates (https), Quality Email Service (AWS SES - no emails going to spam directly!) all set up.

Business Inquieres
You want to invest? or maybe you are up to a partnership please contact me privately, I'm open to investment, partnerships.

Hiring Frontend Engineers
So, I'm a Backend Engineer, and my Frontend/UI work sucks hard, I can't pay much but maybe we can come up to an agreement, please contact me privately.

Please, I would like to get some feedback from the community, if it's a good idea, if it could work, I also will need some people for beta testing, I will use this thread to let you know when I need beta testers. Don't hesitate to ask questions or give ideas/improvements! I hadn't much time to post more pictures.

Thanks for the reply.

Offtopic question: I got the project at 80% of the MVP, would you recommend me to post it and get some feedback or wait till everything is up?

I would really appreciate to get some feedback from the community to decide whetever it's worth or not to keep working on the project since I'm alone and I have a full time job, since the project is a little bit risky and no idea if people will like it.

Hello, I'm working on a project I would like to anounce, it is an online game where you can place bets (with crypto currency) - it's not a gamble game like a casino, it's more a skill based game, where is the best place to post it? And does it need to have ANN prefix?

That makes sense to me also, I will definitely go with this option.

Thanks for your opinion.

Thank you Patatas for your trust. I won't spam anyway, I'm not interested in recollecting emails, nor spamming, that's why the email field is not mandatory.

The only thing I will do is to send an email when the project gets launched, so they can register and get their bonus!

And your proposition is good, I would need Beta Testers!

Soon I will open a thread where I explain all about the project, current status, etc.

Don't expect a big reward because as said before I haven't done an ICO nor I requested funds to big investors, as said before, firstly I want to have the product in its MVP status, if the project rolls, I will create an ico/search for investors to bring it to the next level.

I know that people don't like ICO's because lot's of them are a scam, lot's of them are just selling hot air and don't have anything, and I don't want that image for my project, first, I bring something to the table, if it works I search for investors.

But lately, it will be a monetary reward (in the platform).

Best Regards!

I still keep thinking that it's not gambling, gambling is when your result will be unexpected, uncertain, if you play roullete you have all odds to loose in the long run because it has a house edge that keeps you away from winning, thats gambling

Games like chess/checkers it's not gambling, it's skill based, the more skill you have the more chances to win you have, so, it's not luck based like a casino, and you won't be playing against a house where house edge is defined, so its fairer for the real player, and the more you play, more skill you earn, and you will win more.

"Skill games like chess can be exploited very easy."

Can you explain this a little bit more? exploitable easiliy?

With the correct mechanisms I dont think this will be a problem, I can trigger Google no-captcha twice ingame to check that it's a real human, and Google is doing really well with it's no-recaptcha lately, so I don't think the Bot problem is a stopper for any project like this.

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Let's assume that a developer decides to create a Bot to try to leech peoples money:

- It's a bot, it won't be perfect, people will still be able to beat the bot...

Let's assume that a developer decides to create a Bot with A.I to try to leech peoples money:

- I don't think this will happen because assuming that a perons has this kind of knowledge, I don't think they won't waste their time trying to get 50/100 bucks a day and assuming the risk that I will review the games and find out that it was a bot and reject his cashout. People with this kind of knowledge surely will get enough money from work/personal projects to trying fuck around other people.

And anyway, as said before the bot problem is ok, I know how to deal with it, with a Google No-Recaptcha before each game and in game, if something happens, bot player get's banned, and the opponent wins automatically.

There are enough tools to handle this, they exist, they work, and they proofed to be efficient.

"That's why there's no successful skill based gambling game online."

Maybe my project will be the first.

I Appreciate any feedback more, thank you.
 

Hello guys, 2 quick questions:

- What would you prefer, paying bitcoun currency only strictly, or calculating bitcoin amount based on a usd cost, example:

-- Paying always 0.001 BTC (bitcoin currency) or paying based on USD, let's say 1 USD, and therefore the BTC amount can change.

- Would you mind receiving different cryptocurrencies (only the most popular ones, coinbase accepted) if you win, example, let's say you deposit 10 USD in BTC, and you win a couple of games but your opponent deposited 10 USD in ETH, when you withdraw the money would yoy mind receiving 10 USD in BTC (original deposit) + 10 USD in ETH (games won) ?

Or would you prefer receiving all in your original currency (BTC)?

The last option would be more complex since it would require BTC liquidity or be able to easily convert the ETH to BTC (buying and selling).

Not sure how to do the deposit/withdraw option, since Bitcoin is so volatile. I guess the safest option is to have a fixed BTC price, because if not, let's say you deposit 10 USD in BITCOIN today (eg 0.001) and you win a couple of games you have now 20USD worth of bitcoin, you withdraw tomorrow and only receive (0.001) bitcoin because bitcoin price increased, so actually you received the same amount as you deposit even that you won more money, that don't makes a lot of sense to me.

PD: If people is really interested and wants to want more about the idea I could create a discord channel to keep people updated and maybe find interested investors.

Thanks for your feedback!


I know that I can pay and receive more responses, but atm I haven't raise funds yet nor I can spend a lot.

About the funding:
I was thinking about it, but the project is not at the MVP statues yet, that's why I dont ask for a funding, because I don't want to sell hot air, nor scam people, I will fund money if the MVP gets launched and people likes it to bring the project to the next level.

Sorry, I just don't want to create an ICO, im just a honest person, and people already are really obsessed with ICO's and I don't want to give a wrong image about the project.

That's why I will fund raise if the MVP is launched and the project works, so, the fund raising has actually a real reason (bring it to the next level).

Just have a look at all the ICO "projects" fund raising, they have nothing and already asking for money, they only have "hot air".



Thank you Sir!

I did the questionaire really fast maybe I rushed a little bit becuase I though that actually no one would answer, but hey, almost 50 answers my initial goal.

I struggled a little bit with the questions, because I still don't wan't to say what the project is about, I'm little bit scared that someone steals my idea, thats why it's maybe too generic, anyway my idea was to see if people who gambles would like to play a skill-based turn game (multiplayer).

Firstly, I don't want people to do this only to "earn".

The questionnaire is done for people who want to give their opinion about a project I'm developing, if people fill the questionnaire and the project launch, they will get a small monetary reward in the platform.

In the site, you will be able to earn money by playing and placing bets if that's your question.

I will launch full project description when the game engine is 100% working, after that I need to work on the website, the integration and payments.