Topic: RFC: Yet another *coin - page 2. (Read 2654 times)
Seems to be a good idea. I'll think of it. Thx.
Usual players do have browsers, so a solution that has proven very useful and effective in the past is to have them run autosurf traffic-exchanges.
Basically you can use autosurf credits as the points people use to buy things in the game.
The specific past case I am thinking of ran their own autosurf so they could directly access players surfing statistics but that may not really be necessary, depending on how easy it is to find useful autosurfs that allow players to transfer credits.
Interestingly a lot of the money came from the players themselves buying things the game operator advertised in the autosurf. Specifically he put some Amazon ads in there and ended up selling a surprising amount of cameras and such to the players thereby.
-MarkM-
Basically you can use autosurf credits as the points people use to buy things in the game.
The specific past case I am thinking of ran their own autosurf so they could directly access players surfing statistics but that may not really be necessary, depending on how easy it is to find useful autosurfs that allow players to transfer credits.
Interestingly a lot of the money came from the players themselves buying things the game operator advertised in the autosurf. Specifically he put some Amazon ads in there and ended up selling a surprising amount of cameras and such to the players thereby.
-MarkM-
You might even be tougher against botnets by using ASICs
Usual players don't have ASICs for sure. The "GPU-hostile" problem has priority over the "botnet's impact" one.
Unless the miners have some special equipment that the computers a botnet infects do not have, then botnets will be able to have a lot of impact.
You might even be tougher against botnets by using ASICs, at least until the ASICs become so widespread that botnets are as likely to find machines equipped with them among their holdings as any other particular kind of special equipment.
-MarkM-
You might even be tougher against botnets by using ASICs, at least until the ASICs become so widespread that botnets are as likely to find machines equipped with them among their holdings as any other particular kind of special equipment.
-MarkM-
I've got an order to launch a new cryptocoin. Easy to say, hard to do. So I need ur help.
Why someone needs this coin. They develop and operate social/web games. They used to use free2play to earn money, but now they'd like to try a new way to do it. The main idea is easy - if a player doesn't like to pay for a Supersword of Uberness s/he could still get it by mining cryptocoins in a browser. LTC was an appropriate solution till GPU-mining was presented to our community. Now mining with CPU, especially in a browser with a JS-miner, is not profitable anymore.
The problem I've faced is what proof-of-work algo to use. It must be GPU-hostile (not like LTC's one seemed to be) and a botnet mining the same coin shouldn't make big impact on profitability of mining. I was thinking of using Scrypt with other parameters (not 1024, 1, 1), but I hope a better algo exists.
PS: The new coin shouldn't be just a clone of BTC/LTC. There are some weaknesses of mentioned currencies, it's a chance to make a currency without them (if this possible of coz).
Why someone needs this coin. They develop and operate social/web games. They used to use free2play to earn money, but now they'd like to try a new way to do it. The main idea is easy - if a player doesn't like to pay for a Supersword of Uberness s/he could still get it by mining cryptocoins in a browser. LTC was an appropriate solution till GPU-mining was presented to our community. Now mining with CPU, especially in a browser with a JS-miner, is not profitable anymore.
The problem I've faced is what proof-of-work algo to use. It must be GPU-hostile (not like LTC's one seemed to be) and a botnet mining the same coin shouldn't make big impact on profitability of mining. I was thinking of using Scrypt with other parameters (not 1024, 1, 1), but I hope a better algo exists.
PS: The new coin shouldn't be just a clone of BTC/LTC. There are some weaknesses of mentioned currencies, it's a chance to make a currency without them (if this possible of coz).
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