xD

Me 2. I've watched all GSL matches and WCS since SC2 came out, and I still tell you that it is easier to predict a correct out come based on various things that happen in-game.
If I'd think in a selfish way I'd say it's a great idea, only because I know I can successfully predict the outcome of most matches during their run.

I just think you're asking for a lot of trouble by allowing in-game bets.

Anyway, you just created the layout of the site (I think? or maybe it was just a page layout) and still haven't got an alpha ready or even started coding it (?).. so lots of time and room to change.

Nah, you'll have to monitor each game and start and end the betting period manually. Allow bets for a game to be accepted until the game starts.
Once it starts all bets are closed.

Some early game mistakes can easily determine the outcome of the match.
Even some openings can determine who's going to win (most likely): 10 pool banelings just doesn't work anymore - you see it a pro gamer using it (and by that I mean using build order to get there) and you already know he'll lose.

fixed that for ya.

The coins main niche is catering StarCraft2 players, that's how it started and that is why you see the word StarCraft a lot here.
Hopefully, if this coin turns out to be like DOGE (i.e. aimed towards a community), it will cater eSports in general and not just SC2.

He came to this thread already just to bash the coin. Merc82 that is.

Bump.
I want more people to see this.

Not normal. You sure you unlocked your wallet? Is the arrow at the bottom right green? Is your computer (wallet) online all this time?

Thought this might interest you guys:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=637202.msg7279319#msg7279319

I think going the betting route alone is a bad idea.

The focus should be around getting Minerals adopted by eSports community so that they will use the coin to sponsor tournaments, help pro-gamers, spread eSports, etc.

It can also be used for bettings, but shouldn't be the main focus.

To many ways to exploit it I reckon... Bots, p.servers, rigged matches. It's a good idea in theory but not practical.

Good post!

Thank you. It is really disconcerting for me to see this organized attacked from so many pool owners, which obviously indicates that they do communicate and monopolize, but to what degree I do not know.

Thanks fixed.

Made a thread about the various things I've read here, feel free to chime in.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=659485.0

Disclaimer: This post is NOT mainly about MineralsCoin (but rather its concept), but I had to mention it heavily because it is the catalyst for this whole reaction.
This post is about how some pool owners, together with big exchanges and probably big farmers monopolize the market on the expense of small miners and possible investors.

I wanna apologize of the lengthy post, so bear with me it, but let’s start:

About a week ago (June 12th) a new coin came to life – MineralsCoin (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=641057.0).
This coin came with the idea to challenge the unfair distribution that most, if not all coins before it had.
And by unfair I am talking about farms taking over a coins network, mining the majority of it, while being the minority (in sheer number) and then dumping it, leaving small miners (the majority) with nothing but leftovers, if they’re lucky.
The developers of MineralsCoin decided that in order to allow a fair distribution of the coin, they would have to limit the hashrate that each individual could use, and the only way to do so is by controlling all the pools of the coin during its PoW phase (a stage that lasted about 7 days) and limiting each account to 1 worker with a limit of 50MH/s (it’s using x11).
Also, wallet wasn't released until after PoW phase ended to prevent farmers from solo mining it.
 
Sure, you could work your way around it, but it would be a lot of trouble and as evident from the network hashrate, not to many farmers bothered with the coin.
Now, some of you might say it’s a scam because the dev of the coin could just relocate the hash somewhere else for his own benefits, but a quick look at the miner showed difficulty that matched the coins, block explorer of the coin worked perfectly fine and no other coin that uses x11 has had a jump in network hashrate proportionate to the size MineralsCoin.
Also, there was no ghost account mining the coin heavily as could have been seen by adding the total hashrate of the 6 pools.

During its PoW stage the developer worked hard on giving the miners an alternative to where to store their coins outside the pool, this alternative came in the form of exchanges. One exchange service was happy to add MineralsCoin and it’s C-Cex, however, most miners wanted (and still want), the bigger exchanges to accept MineralsCoins in order to see its value go up.
However, one of the biggest exchanges to date – Bittrex, has remained vague with its intention of adding MineralsCoin for reasons that made me make this thread:

Here are some quotes from pool owners/admins/whatever that for "unknown" reasons decided to group up in MineralsCoin thread:

Admin in DedicatedPools
Subtle threat?
Quoted for the irony that is about to come.

“Sorry, not supporting privatization of crypto coins” right into "You may or may not know there is a society of over 150 people, pool owners, exchanges, leaders in crypto that all VETO'd your coin - it is just not me”.
Probably the most disconcerting post of them all.

Purposefully blocking a coin that might create a wave of coins that will eat into his future pool profits.

Well, now it’s an obvious threat.

Admin in TradeMyBit:
Another pool showing its hate.

Admin in  Suprnova and various other pools (yet another pool owner…)
Quoted for irony

Trying to control, throttle and manipulate the entire thread with the rest of the pool owners, does make what he just wrote to qualify as ironic.

Admin in Suchpool.sw (another pool owner…)

There were lots of other pools in that thread (to many pages to go through) in addition to shill accounts trying to spread FUD and quotes from Bittrex IRC which I did not bother to post.
For the record, MineP was actually the only pool that participated in the thread and did not seem to bash the coin but rather took interest in it.

As a side note, how many coins out there have you seen that have been controlled by a single pool? Don’t know about you, but I have seen a lot. Pools that owned 80%, 90% and even 100% of the network of the coins and those coins were added without an issue to the big exchanges only to allow pool owners to dump the coin to make an extra… God knows how much.

As far as Bittrex goes (and the other big exchanges), to this date, they have added a lot of other shitcoins, that are semi closed source, 100% pre-mined, 70% premined (Country coins anyone?), etc.
The only common thing here I can see between those coins that were listed on big exchanges is that they could have been mined on the big pools.

So my question to this forum is this: is the market that heavily monopolized? That only a select few people decide which coin is gonna go where, where it’s going to be mined, where it’s gonna exchange? Which coin is going to be lunched?
Was crypto not made in order to decentralize us from the control of a few powerful entities? How bad is what Binaryclock talking about? How serious is that group?

And as a last note, MineralsCoin is now in its PoS stage and became open source. Nothing malicious was found in the code and so far everything seems legit with the coin.

P.S. I wanna remind you again that this thread isn't about MineralsCoin, but rather the concept it brought to the table and the very sharp reaction from a group of people that got scared of its ramification if it succeeds.

*I wanna apologize if my English was not spot on, it isn’t my native language after all.

Additional links to read:
http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/minerals-x11-powpos-with-no-wallet-download-before-end-of-pow
http://www.cryptoarticles.com/crypto-news/minerals-altcoin-with-100-fair-launch-upsets-big-miners-and-pool-operators
http://altcoinspeculation.com/new-coins-new-wealth-any-future/
http://altcoinspeculation.com/are-new-altcoins-being-monopolised/

Start promoting it on gaming forums, like Battle.net and Steam.

Make a thread, say that you're gonna be tipping people who use it in their sig and start it rolling.

Did you talk with Blizzard about using Cryptocurrency on their forum? I did message them but have yet to get a reply. Was planning on promoting Mineralscoin on battle.net but wanted to be sure I won't get banned or something.

You should try and contact them as well, maybe you'll get an answer quicker than me.

This is very unprofessional from them. Well, that means I won't ever be using them... How sad.