A team of us have been working on a web game for a while now and it's always been important to us that the story is interesting enough to follow, even if you didn't play. That story is finally starting to take a bit of shape, so we wanted to share what we have with everyone. Hopefully it's a fun break from the slightly more important topics that normally have our attention.

It's the year 20XX, long since the original accounting droid, the EconoDroid, had been created by the humans. The droids have since learned quite a bit from their once squishy overlords and now conduct war purely with money, specifically the blunt ample math based instrument that are cryptocurrencies. Droids themselves have continued to evolve and cherish the horrible lessons they learned from their human masters, forming a new class of droid, Coindroids. This droid army understands two important lessons: that money is power, and that power is best exerted by launching it at high velocities at the enemy.  

You can head over to http://blog.coindroids.com/tag/comic/ to see the rest, or follow along as more is added. Feedback is always welcomed

[Non-Technical Talks]

The Blockchain Training Conference - a.k.a BTCToronto
Presented by The Bitcoin Alliance of Canada, in partnership with the Bitcoin Foundation and C4
https://blockchaintraining.org

Where: Toronto, Canada at the MaRS Discovery District
When: June 20-21, 2016

The Blockchain Training Conference is being organized to tackle the largest problem affecting the growth and adoption of blockchain technology: knowledge. Attendees will receive practical hands-on training from accounting, legal, and technical experts who work with blockchains regularly. The event features professionally relevant topics including software development, accounting, legal, security, blockchain investigations, and even a crash­course in blockchains 101.

Non-Technical Talks
Securing Coins 101: Simple Steps for Businesses and Individuals
Blockchain Startup Compliance
Legal Issues Surrounding Blockchain Tokens
Ethereum: the World Computer
Blockchain Superpowers and Crypto-nite
Blockchains and Money Laundering
Systems of Record vs. Systems of Authority
Accounting with Blockchains
Investing in the Blockchain Space

Technical Talks
Blockchain Mechanics - Making Sense of blockchain data structures
Working with Bitcoin in Ruby
Blockchain Investigations
Using pycoin to Create Multisig Transactions
Segregated Witness: A powerful extensibility layer for Bitcoin
CLTV, CSV, and advanced OPCODES in Bitcoin
Mechanics of Lightning Network channels
Designing Smart Blockchain Applications
OMNI Assets on Bitcoin's blockchain
CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS)

[Your Droid]

It's the year 20XX, long since the original accounting droid, the EconoDroid, had been created by the humans. The droids have since learned quite a bit from their once squishy overlords and now conduct war purely with money, specifically the blunt ample math based instrument that are cryptocurrencies. Droids themselves have continued to evolve and cherish the horrible lessons they learned from their human masters, forming a new class of droid, Coindroids. This droid army understands two important lessons: that money is power, and that power is best exerted by launching it at high velocities at the enemy.  

Coindroids is a game like no other. It is completely skill-based, played with coins, and played for coins. Your actions are transactions, so you must choose them wisely. Your success will depend as much on your quick thinking as it will your methodical attention to detail throughout our ongoing story.

Your Droid
Each player has a droid which they choose and then work to build up. New body parts, unlocked by levelling up, will help withstand bigger attacks from your foes, and help you increase the efficiency of your attacks.

Droids also have some dynamic attributes which change over time, specifically your Cover, EMI, and your Focus. Cover is an environment variable that alters how well the Cover action will do to protect you, the EMI governs how likely a droid is to drop loot, and Focus changes how powerful your attack can be for that block. All of these variables can be calculated based on the previous block hash.

Earning Money
You can earn money in Coindroids in two ways, attacking and defending.

When you attack, if you are able to destroy a droid, you will win the contents of their purse. If you and another droid share in the destruction during the same block, that money is split between you.

Defending is not passively, there is no actual defence action, simply trying to stay alive as long as possible is the key here. The more blocks you stay alive, and the larger your droids purse is, the more funds that may come to you when you are attacked by others.

Always remember that everything in Coindroids is deterministic. There is no luck in this war, just calculated actions.

All payouts from the system occur only once the sum of your pending payouts has hit the payout threshold. This is to prevent spam transactions and save funds on transaction fees. The threshold for payouts in Litecoin is 0.055LTC

Attacking
When attacking, you'll want to search for droids who are weak with low health and a nice high purse. The ultimate goal is to spend less on your attacks than you receive as purse payouts.

Every detail about your attack can be properly calculated. In the Attack Box, we provide some estimates and quick-choices, but ultimately you decide how to utilize your ammo clip each block. Attack a single droid with all your ammo, or try to snipe a couple kills across many.



Items & Upgrades


Your droid is an ever evolving cryptocurrency shooting killing machine. As you gain experience through your attacks and level up, you will be able to purchase items and customize them to be more stronger and drastically cooler.



The Coindroids universe is ever evolving but details on new items will not always be provided via simple announcement. Keep a close eye on our social feeds (Twitter, Facebook and our web comic or your droid may miss out.

Supported Coins and Wallets
We have the ability to support a number of currencies, however at the moment we are limiting it to Litecoin (LTC), Defcoin (DFC). Currently the largest active community is playing from the Litecoin network.

We have been developing Coindroids for the Bitcoin network since we began however, due to high transaction fees and block times, we have suspended Bitcoin Mainnet (BTC) and Bitcoin Testnet (XTN) support for the time being.

Litecoin Wallets
PC/Mac/Linux: Exodus, Litecoin Core
iOS: Loafwallet
Android: Coinomi
Web: Litevault.net

Defcoin Wallets
PC/Mac/Linux: Defcoin-QT
iOS: Beerwallet
Android: Coinomi


Development Status
Coindroids is currently playable in an alpha state. Those interested in playing must locate an invite code prior to registration. Registration is temporarily open to all.

A full api is available for the technically advanced.

Guides

• Creating your first Droid
• Understanding the flow of coins in and out of the game
• Performing an Attack

We also really care about security and try our best to follow the CCSS  
If you find anything wrong, please let us know ❤️

[This post is very out of date. There is a more accurate/recent discussion taking place over here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753447.0]

This post is very out of date. There is a more accurate/recent discussion taking place over here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=753447.0

Hi All,

Friends and I have been working on a new game for a couple months now and I wanted to share it so that we can get some feedback before moving forward to other currencies.

You can visit the Defcoin version of the game here: https://def.coindroids.com
(If you need some defcoin to play, feel free to PM me an address and I will send you some)

In short, the game is a robot battle game where attacks are performed through transactions. Robots each have details like experience, level, health, defense, damage, etc. As you attack others, your experience and levels increase, allowing you to purchase unlocked upgrades and perform higher powered attacks.

Our Getting Started guide has some good advice in it but it was tailored for a conference that we launched at earlier in the month so some aspects don't make as much sense currently. Hopefully your feedback will help us re-write this into a better guide. I do have an article written that goes into a lot more detail on the game, which may help new players out a bit for now. If you are using the Defcoin-QT wallet, it is absolutely crucial that you follow this guide: http://coindroids.com/coindroids-qt-howto.pdf

All feedback is certainly welcome but here are some specifics we would love to hear about:

• Gameplay balance (Are certain items too powerful, does the upgrade path make sense, etc)
• Site Usability and Design
• Features Lacking
• Errors and Issues

Thanks!
-Abstrct

Hi Folks,

I just wrote up a post on how to deploy Electrum to the Heroku (http://heroku.com) hosting service. It probably isn't perfect, but hopefully somebody may find it interesting.

http://www.genesisbloc.com/deploying-electrum-to-heroku/

I would paste the full article here inline to be less spammy but the post is a bit lengthy so I hope this way is ok.

Any feedback is certainly welcome as well.

-Abstrct