"Spinjar is a Bitcoin donation address that gives users the chance to win with every donation."A few months ago Josh Rossi (of
Satoshi Square fame) suggested that it might be possible to incentivize donation and charitable giving, by creating special addresses which automatically enter part of any Bitcoin sent there into a simple lottery. We lovingly refer to this as "the Satoshi Dicing of everything".
There's a famous book suggesting one should consider productizing one's development byproducts. As it happened, the requirements for an absolutely minimal implementation of Spinjar manifested along the path of learning some new tools, thus we have this to share:
http://www.spinjar.me/previewAs far as we know, Spinjar is the first implementation of such an idea. And though the addresses listed work, this is only a proof-of-concept, and has several drawbacks: The winning odds aren't great, we are not sure how to handle minuscule donations, and, at least for the time being, we need to generate Spinjar addresses by hand.
We would like some feedback on the concept: Would you use this -- why or why not? How could we make it better? Provided a little bit of idea validation, we'll continue the development openly and push out an easy-to-embed widget like this:
If anyone here wants a Spinjar address, please email me:
connect@humint.isThanks for your consideration!
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