Topic: Bitcoin Co-op Meet Up (Vancouver) (Read 27484 times)

One of the many industries being revolutionized by blockchain technology is the video game industry. Steam now accepts Bitcoin for payments, Gamerholic and GameCredits power their game platforms with cryptocurrency, and Spells of Genesis puts trading cards on the blockchain via Counterparty.

Huntercoin takes things a step farther by completely forgoing the use of a central server, making it the first decentralized autonomous video game. The game world is stored on the Huntercoin blockchain, with commands issued to your Hunters via Huntercoin transactions on the P2P network. Players compete for newly-minted HUC dispersed around the map.


Huntercoin is a turn-based game with each turn lasting one minute (the block time). This makes for a chess-like game of cat-and-mouse, which we're going to demonstrate on the big screen for everybody to see first hand. Andrew Wagner will answer any questions, and the whole event will be moderated, livestreamed and recorded by Alex Sterk on BlockTalk. We'll also have 205 free HUC (the cost of a Hunter) for each new player, and the latest copy of the blockchain on SSD.

Although the game is still simple and difficult to run, the Huntercoin team is currently hard at work to fix this. Andrew will discuss the latest efforts and future plans to increase playability, and outline a theoretical model for consensus-based game updates and decentralized modding on a shared ledger.

Official website: huntercoin.org
Detailed game review: http://www.newsbtc.com/2016/02/02/blockchain-gaming-huntercoin/

CoinFest Vancouver will once more be holding an awesome party for those who never got to experience CoinFest 2014. We will start by having dinner at India Gate, the world's first Indian restaurant to accept Bitcoin, a historic landmark in the Vancouver Bitcoin scene. Enjoy great food and drinks without the need for pesky Canadian dollars.

After dinner, we're going to bring back the Decentralized Doge Party, an awesome twist on the Decentralized Dance Party for fans of cryptocurrency. If you can't imagine what that's like, watch this video... you absolutely won't regret it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUpW18Exw8g

Unfortunately, the City of Vancouver and its liquor inspectors will have a hissy fit if we do it at India Gate, again (boo, central authorities), so at around 8:30, we're going to clear out of the restaurant and head to another location (to be announced). The DDP will start at 9 PM, and if we get enough sponsorship funding and donations, will turn into a roving flash mob on the streets. Stay tuned!

CoinFest started in 2013 as a relatively small gathering of 100 or so Bitcoiners, celebrating the adoption of Bitcoin at the Waves Coffee House at Smithe and Howe. It was conceived as a way to incentivize cryptocurrency acceptance while educating the public about its importance and use. Its popular success prompted the Bitcoiniacs to place the world’s first Bitcoin ATM there, which we again celebrated.

By 2014, CoinFest was growing in popularity, and that year it took a new direction: CoinFest spread across Canada and now internationally, exemplifying the border-defying and decentralized nature of crypto. Vancouver lead the way again by booking multiple venues simultaneously for a less centrally organized variety of exhibits, as Satoshi would have wanted. In 2015, CoinFest spread worldwide, and new ground was broken in Latin America and Europe.


This year, CoinFest Vancouver will be hosted primarily at 436 West Pender, a local hub for decentralization supporters and fans. It will function as a base of operations for the International Hangout, which coordinates live virtual presentations beamed simultaneously to audiences around the globe. Speakers will include notable thinkers and leaders such as Paul Snow from Factom, Susanne Tempelhof of BitNation, and Chelsea Barabas from MIT Media Labs Digital Currency Initiative, who will air in the afternoon.

The Hangout will be over at around 4 PM, after which we'll be focused on local activities. There will be booths and demonstrations of things like mining hardware and other decentralized tech (to be announced). There will also be the Decentralized Arcade, which features decentralized games with prizes such as Huntercoin and Gamerholic's Grabbit, and an afterparty in the evening.

Is this thread abandoned? do you guys still hold meetups in Vancouver? will be visiting next week.

Gaming has its roots in tech culture, so you'd think the industry would be leading the Bitcoin crusade. Sadly, this has not been the case, with no worthwhile development houses choosing to adopt it in any way.

Cryptocurrency's utility as a fundraising mechanism has brought in many smaller companies, however, who have chosen to adopt Bitcoin for payment or even launched their own coins. Now some are actively experimenting with true blockchain integration.

Andrew Wagner has started a series on this new gaming genre, and is going to introduce the subject. Then we'll beam in some developers of actual blockchain-based titles for Q&A, and then finally get to playing some games!

Don't forget to RSVP on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/1042604552433924/

The blockchain has many applications besides sending and receiving money. One of the first additional functions to be explored was fundraising; it is relatively easy to request bitcoins, as a donation or with the promise of some future return.

New cryptocurrencies, however, have allowed us to automate the process. Backing a coin with equity (like a stock) is complicated due to securities laws, but many have already designed coins backed by goods or services for which they can be redeemed.

All decentralized applications (like Storj or MAIDSafe) are essentially service providers, with their service being provided in exchange for their associated crypto coin. By releasing the tokens before the application, they effectively pre-sell those services as a way to raise development funds.

This has become a revolutionary new crowdselling and fundraising method, on which all decentralized applications will probably rely. We're beaming in some experts on the topic to discuss their experience with crypto crowdsales, including:

• Synereo, the first truly decentralized social media platform. Better than Facebook in every way, they're currently crowselling the AMP tokens needed to promote content (as opposed to paying Facebook).

• Factom, a decentralized proof of existence application. They're crowdselling Factoid tokens which can be used to permanently record any data on virtually any blockchain.