Project Idea: Sudoku + JavaScript Miner

davout

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Quote from: freshmonkey on June 03, 2011, 11:08:54 PM

Users create accounts. Captcha. Limits on games played per day. Limits on new accounts created by all users in day. Statistical analysis to observe for bot play. There is a point at which the financial rewards for the cheater outweigh the amount of effort required to cheat.

So, as I said before, cheating is minimal in my concerns. The other issue raised by gigitrix could be a problem.

Well, go for it, if you're confident that you can handle these issues it might be a nice opportunity.
My gf plays sudoku on her iphone whenever she gets a chance : there is a market Cheesy

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Quote from: davout on June 03, 2011, 10:40:37 PM

Quote from: freshmonkey on June 03, 2011, 10:37:36 PM

I'm not following. Why do you think cheating could not be minimized?

Cheating is like an intellectual game.
At some point you might just end up with a sudoku grid that hardly as readable as a captcha.

Users create accounts. Captcha. Limits on games played per day. Limits on new accounts created by all users in day. Statistical analysis to observe for bot play. There is a point at which the financial rewards for the cheater outweigh the amount of effort required to cheat.

So, as I said before, cheating is minimal in my concerns. The other issue raised by gigitrix could be a problem.

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Quote from: freshmonkey on June 03, 2011, 10:37:36 PM

I'm not following. Why do you think cheating could not be minimized?

Cheating is like an intellectual game.
At some point you might just end up with a sudoku grid that hardly as readable as a captcha.

freshmonkey

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Quote from: gigitrix on June 03, 2011, 10:01:23 PM

Quote from: freshmonkey on June 03, 2011, 09:41:25 PM

Re: Cheating

Cheating could be minimized to the point where it would be negligible. Thus, I would not be terribly concerned about that issue.

No. No it could not. Trust me on this.

I'm not following. Why do you think cheating could not be minimized?

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Quote from: gigitrix on June 03, 2011, 10:01:23 PM

Quote from: freshmonkey on June 03, 2011, 09:41:25 PM

Re: Cheating

Cheating could be minimized to the point where it would be negligible. Thus, I would not be terribly concerned about that issue.

No. No it could not. Trust me on this.

+1

gigitrix

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Quote from: freshmonkey on June 03, 2011, 09:41:25 PM

Re: Cheating

Cheating could be minimized to the point where it would be negligible. Thus, I would not be terribly concerned about that issue.

No. No it could not. Trust me on this.

freshmonkey

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Quote from: gigitrix on June 03, 2011, 08:47:28 PM

People would cheat it. And there's no way you can send transactions small enough, or gain enough profit.

Is there currently a limit on how small transactions can be? (For give me, I'm new to Bitcoin.) I was under the impression that transactions can be passed along for free, unless one uses a processing service or seeks priority processing, down to 8 decimal places. Thanks.

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Re: Cheating

Cheating could be minimized to the point where it would be negligible. Thus, I would not be terribly concerned about that issue.

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1. get c++ sudoku solver
2. solve sudokus in 10 seconds
3. get 0.00000006 btc in one minute
4. BECOME RICH! (0.0000036 per hour) :p

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People would cheat it. And there's no way you can send transactions small enough, or gain enough profit. I've built sudoku solvers myself, it's trivial.

freshmonkey

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I wanted to pass along a potential solution to the ethical issue of JavaScript miners. Create a game, like Sudoku, which pays the user a small amount of BTC (e.g., 0.00000001 BTC) for solving a puzzle or completing a level. The user, in return for being allowed to collect a small amount of BTC, would allow the site to run a JavaScript miner in the background. (The user would be fully aware.) The miner would only be run when the game was being played. Any thoughts?

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