So I’ve decided to take the plunge into Blockchain development. It’s an ‘itch’ I’ve been wanting to scratch for a while and now seems the perfect moment.
I’ve been running a sports prediction game on Steem for a while called Scoopstakes. The game is quite simple. Users enter the score predictions for football matches and the entrants with the most correct guesses win.
Sky runs a similar thing with their Super6 game. The BBC do Lawro’s predictions. For Scoopstakes, I wanted a game that was global and rewarded entrants with automated prizes. Big prizes for those at the top of the leaderboard, down to micro-payments for those in lower positions.
I ran a ‘quick-and-dirty’ alpha of Scoopstakes on Steem. Allowing users to enter via comments on blog posts. Overall I took a lot of learning out of the experiment. Particular around the data-flow on the backend. Now I’m ready to take Scoopstakes to the next level, so other the next few months that will be my pet project.
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