Topic: [ANN] New Piggycoin [PIGGY] | 3% interest | Web PiggyBank | Android PiggyBank - page 36. (Read 222608 times)

Good idea. Since I imagine the game should be revenue positive or at least neutral for the game devs, I would assume advertising should be used to support it (to provide funding for the piggycoins earned playing the game), or the ad-free purchase fee you mention.

I haven't actually seen the Farm Satoshi game, but I imagine that one could also have upgrade options (paying for various items/enhancements within the game with Piggycoins) that would also help balance things out.

One neat thing about this idea is that if constructed right, it might be possible to create additional "modules" to the game that provide teaching/instruction on many different topics, without a whole lot of additional effort.

I would absolutely love to see a game like this played with Piggycoin!

Farm Satoshi is actually very well designed from what I can tell and my eleven year old enjoys playing it (under my supervision). It's a farming game using satoshis as the game unit of currency with the option of cashing out those satoshis to a real wallet.

Can something similar be developed for Piggy with a few changes? The changes that would make the experience even better are:

1. Allow for more than one account per household/IP address. I have more than one child that would enjoy playing.
2. Use PIGGY as unit of currency instead of satoshis--allow cash out to actual PIGGY wallet. Goes without saying but don't tie it to Xapo.
3. Ad free would be nice, but I understand that ads provide revenue, so ads OK. Maybe have an ad free upgrade version you pay for once (with PIGGY of course).
4. Do not make leveling up dependent on gaining referrals. Referral bonuses are OK, but kids should be able to play the game fully without having referrals. The game earnings don't have to be huge either, just positive. The real value of the game is in the learning--it's a nice little lesson on economics.
5. Have a parents' umbrella account which allows for the parents to reward their children for "in real life" accomplishments by sending PIGGY to their game accounts.
6. Allow the parents (both of them) to play too--the game is really fun.
7. Tie in other types of learning within the game, maybe science about the various animals.
8. Expand it to allow for growing crops and other farm economic activities--can also include plant science lessons.

Basically, what I'm suggesting is create a similar quest based learning game as Farm Satoshi with PIGGY as the currency.

How about it?

We're discussing that at the moment

Piggycoin needs to team up with Peppa Pig ....

http://www.businessinsider.com/entertainment-ones-peppa-pig-hits-1-billion-worldwide-2015-5

BTW is the updated MAC wallet going to be built? it seems it is still on an older version.

Short notice, but on the Poloniex balances page, there is now the notice:


I guess we might get some more people staking 

I agree, I don't like any of the ones on the bottom except the bottom left one.  I personally love the one on the top, second column.

I like all the logos except the P's with the tale on it. I think I "get it" but anyone unfamiliar with Piggycoin would not, and it looks more like a snake than anything.

Some shop sticker concept designs:

Network looks quite good so far; after all this is done PIGGY should focus more on feature development and adoption.

Orphan blocks seem to have dropped now

I had been staking some official PiggyCoin funds up to some two weeks ago, when I stopped (for safety).  Sounds like neurocis stopped staking some stuff for a while too.  I wonder what effect that had.

Perhaps we need v1.2.2.0 (Operation Sever-Chain) to be more widely-adopted?

Unfortunately I've been really busy with work so haven't been able to do much promotion work.  I'll do a giveaway on CryptoCoinTalk when I get the chance.

What's happened now? I was off staking a while Thur/Fri due to a laptop upgrade at work, but was staking again normally by Friday mid-morning (CST) with the 1.2.2 upgrade I'd done a day or two earlier. Things seemed normal on my end, but the orphans chart now shows something is badly out of whack. Hopefully I have nothing to do with it.  

Thanks fairglu, I am watching this trend with some keen interest as well, stakes are splitting like mad after consolidating at around 50-60K UTXOs. In and around the end of the last plateau I had to take #3 rich off staking. Those coins plus some more will be back on the job in the next 24 hours and I will see the effect. Also seeing some good deltas in timestamps on the blocks, some suspiciously out of sequence, but nothing conclusive of a time-warp. The network is definitely working harder than usual ATM   .

FWIW the explorer wallet is seeing an increase in the number of orphans https://chainz.cryptoid.info/piggy/#!extraction
The chart is now at the ATH since orphans started being recorded

Just happened again today, so I just sent in my debug log. Hope it helps!

I had another episode of Conflicted stakes for 2+ hours yesterday (probably not related to this), where I had to reboot the client to start getting stakes accepted again. The odd thing about it is that this has happened at least 5 times now, and every time it's happened during work hours (the client is running on my work laptop). That's starting to become statistically significant. But I'm unable to ID anything I was doing at the point when the Conflicts began that would explain it.

It's not a huge issue (I just try to check the transactions before I leave each night to make sure they are being accepted by the network), but I figured I'd mention it.

I'd defer to your judgement - the times I've visited the site I didn't notice/run across anything more objectionable than a list of coin names. But I wasn't looking for trouble either, so to speak. I guess my assumption is that the people using the exchanges are overwhelmingly likely to be adults so it's less of a concern at this point. But I'm glad you're keeping that sort of thing in mind. :-)

Well there's some NSFW stuff on there so I was wondering about how to do it, and whether or not to link to it from the piggy-coin.com site too (Parents/About page, at bottom).

I think I should link to my post about it on BitcoinTalk, which would at least give a warning before users continue.  What do you think?

How about listing the Cryptopia exchange in the announcement post on the first page of this thread, since it handles Piggycoin?

(https://www.cryptopia.co.nz/Exchange)

Cool coin! I'm going to invest in it. I can see kiddos enjoying this, especially the faucet that asks them a question

Happy block 500,000!

Updated bootstrap file in OP.

Reverted back to 1.2.1.1 at neurocis' request so that older wallets can show up in the network stats.

Been only a couple of hours since the revert, so more peers will likely show up in the next hours, but it looks like most of the network is on 1.2.x !