Guys I came up with a concept for a game on the Ethereum blockchain, would love to see it implemented.
The button game is a simple concept. The price to push the button starts at 0.00001 Eth. If someone presses the button after you, it costs twice as much, or 0.00002 Eth. The person who pressed the button the second time will own the Eth of the person who came before them after a week has passed and no one has pressed the button again. However, if the button is pressed again the cycle repeats and that person will now own the Eth of the person before them (having paid twice the cost of pushing the button, or 0.00004 Eth) and the timer starts over. If no one presses the button for a week the Eth is paid out, and it all starts back again at 0.0001 Eth. This game continues to exist ad infinitum on the blockchain, open for play by the general public whenever someone wants to push “The Button”.
This is actually pretty clever. Reminiscent of Keynes' beauty contest but I don't know what would happen here.
Oliver Nguyen
>just has a README I was about to congratulate you OP. Really though shouldn't be a week more like an hour.
Adrian Sanchez
a doubler
Hunter Howard
Just came up with the idea tonight, will try to implement in upcoming weeks but if anyone wants to help/contribute thought I'd just set it up.
Samuel Edwards
What about the reverse variant where you don't want to be the last guy to press the button.
- Player A bids 1 unit. - Player B pays player A 1 unit to press the button. - C pays B 2 units to press the button - D pays C 4 units to press the button - E pays D 8 units to press the button
etc etc Until the last guy, player n has no one press the button. He ends up holding the bag and player (n-1) is the biggest winner.
Except maybe it doesn't go up by 2^n every time. More like 1.01^n.
Tyler Morales
I'd play it, except make it a day, or even an hour. Ain't no one around here got the patience to wait a week
Sebastian Campbell
Sounds familiar to another type of scheme
Brody Howard
So I pay eth to earn half of what I paid? The fuck is this shit
The thing is that if you do the reverse button like I've suggested, it encourages people to buy in at the beginning of the game because they're more likely to get their money back. The way the OP does it, the richest person in the world will just press the button last, so there's no incentive for someone to press it first.
Camden Fisher
Unless of course, you just press your own button. Then you risk nothing I guess.
Luis Reed
Wait, yes you do. I'm retarded.
Elijah Hernandez
The person initiating could be a bid, where if no one else clicks then the Eth gets returned to sender.
With exponentially rising cost to click, it gets large fast. Only the last two people to compete would actually win/lose. The winner making a 50% gain
This is what I was thinking as well. You could lose if you're the last guy for a week
I'm a little confused as to who the winner here would be though
Ryan Richardson
how are you confused? it clearly says that its the NEXT TO last that wins
Ethan Mitchell
And player A, B, C, D, etc, double their money? And player Q gets shafted? This could work
Nolan Butler
Yeah, but don't make it double. Maybe like each bid is 2% more than the last in order to generate player interest in the game.
And a small percentage of the second to last winner's stake should go into the next starting pot so that the game can self perpetuate.
Aaron Hughes
Everybody who isnt the last one to press the button doubled their money at the one big losers expense.
Kevin Ross
What are you fucking stupid. Some rich guy will just make a bot to auto press at the end of the cycle and since he has the most currency he cant lose
Leo Gray
What if it gets up to massive numbers though?
Luke Turner
He's still the only one who can press it because hes the only one who can pay, at the worst he presses it for a few more weeks and gets the eth he payed back anyway
Wyatt Williams
Rich-get-richer: the game I like it
John Hill
This is a matrix scheme
Gavin Lee
>pusch budden
Jordan Miller
Just wait til the fair casinos come out and play roulette all day
Charles Brooks
I also have an idea for a game. I call it the "color game". The idea is that you pick a color and a price and and then another guy has to guess the color you picked, if they are correct they take your money if not they have to pay you that amount.
Blake Clark
you just described kingoftheether.com
Nolan Carter
the only flaw with the game would be haxors would ddoss the site so no one could push the button and collect easy gains bc of it
Lucas James
>the only flaw Huuuuuur duuuur
Dylan Clark
Your explanations don't mesh with what you wrote. You click the button, you pay 0.00001*2^n ETH, then what? You get paid after the next person clicks or the last person fails to click? How much? The way your first post seems to describe is you lose half if you're not the last to click.
Matthew Wood
You can still push the button by interacting with the smart contract directly, just call Push()
