First of all guys I want to apologize for the delay. You see I have rebuilt Bithorse.co from the ground up solo style and I am not delivering you guys an unfinished product. Everything is working plus the new animations and all. This last delay is because I am insisting on setting up on a more secure hosting solution and getting you a secure SSL connection, Yup I want your browser to light green as you feel safe enjoying the game with your real bitcoins. I also want to advertise more for our round generation method and how open and fair it is, Please ask away and demand proofs of fairness. This is a game to stay, We intend a long lasting place in your hearts.
The special modifiers will not be released with the initial release due to the complexity of calculations for the betting, It is planned for later when we establish an enthusiast gamers base.
Ask away, wish and ask, We will make what we can. more awesomeness to come.
The special modifiers will not be released with the initial release due to the complexity of calculations for the betting, It is planned for later when we establish an enthusiast gamers base.
Ask away, wish and ask, We will make what we can. more awesomeness to come.
good news to hear from you, i am interested to know about round generation method, how does it calculate the winning horse of the race?
animation is nice implementation and site developing steadily. are going to add referral system there?
Allright, I will describe it here briefly. So basically generate an RSA pair (public and a private key). And then we publish the public key at the start of the round (At my current development version the key is under the "current round bets" tab). We wait and receive bets for ten minutes. After that we grab the last litecoin block generated from any popular block explorer and we sign the hash for the block with the key we generated at the beginning of the round. We formulate a JSON string with all the round info including the bets and the signed hash in a standard format that applies to all rounds future and past. Then we calculate the SHA256SUM of the JSON string, We do that five times and assign each digest to the horses from left to right respectively as they appear on the website. We compare the bytes from the 30th to the 35th from each digest to determine which horse comes first, second, third, etc. A fun thing to mention, Your bets does affect the result, You just cannot expect how it would turnout.
So far we have not yet discussed a referral system. I have a much more interesting ideas in mind but that is for later, I have not even discussed it with Sakrias. They are still getting baked in the lab upstairs.
Wow that provably fair scheme sounds very complicated.
Could you give us an example, and also add a simple-to-use verifier on the site?
yes it sounds strange looking much complicated i had download that verifier file but no link to vefiry it?
online verifier is better solution to make more verify and build the trust of players.
Allright then, I guess I will make one with the release. But guys I have to ask, Will you guys check the javascript files to be doing exactly what you expecting them to or to be just simply telling you "Tada! it really verifies!". I mean what the customer needs is what the customer needs but sometimes I kinda want to understand the logic behind the request.
Oh will that be possible to implement with this release or could that be something for the future? As i said that will be awesome if you can like it sounds like you can. 