There is no a matching system atm in the site, the games that are in the arcade, are games from people currently online and looking to play (an open room to join), that means that when you accept you are playing live, but that also means that if the other person is on another tab, watching tv or just afk, they wont move immediately, you can also put a game up and wait a bit so someone to take it or use the chat and find someone to play. Sometimes I have a game up on the arcade and got invited to another game, but since I'm already playing I won't see if someone takes my invite.

Since the project it's open source you can find everything about it on our github. About your questions the best way to understand how it works it checking this:
https://github.com/SaitoTech/saito-lite/blob/master/docs/how_saito_works.md

Hey, chess is one of my favorite games,if you don't understand how to play in Saito maybe I can help you out. Let me know what you don't understand, can om me or show up tonight (after 8pm EST) and I'll help you out.

Hey man, this was last night right? I got into a poker game and didn't notice that someone got my chess invite. We mostly use the chat to setup games or ask if someone is around. I played a few games like that yesterday but probably missed yours.

Saito is a blockchain designed to solve the collective action problems that impede scaling in all proof-of-work and proof-of-stake blockchains. Fixing the underlying economic issues pushes Saito towards an optimal network structure while eliminating sybil-attacks, fee-recycling attacks, block-withholding attacks and the fifty-one percent attack.

How it works:

TRANSACTION REBROADCASTING

Saito divides the blockchain into "epochs" of roughly 100,000 blocks. If the latest block is 500,000, the current epoch streches from block 400,001 onwards.

Once a block falls out of the current epoch, its unspent transaction outputs (UTXO) are no longer spendable. Any UTXO which contains enough tokens to pay a rebroadcasting fee must be re-included in the very next block however. The rebroadcasting fee is twice the average fee per byte paid by new transactions over a smoothing period.

Block producers rebroadcast UTXO by creating special "automatic transaction rebroadcasting" (ATR) transactions. These ATR transactions include the original transaction but have new UTXO. The rebroadcasting fee is deducted from these new UTXO and added to the block reward. Any blocks not containing all necessary ATR transactions are invalid by consensus rules. After two epochs block producers may delete old transactions, keeping only the 32-byte header hash to prove the connection with the genesis block.

2. PRODUCING BLOCKS

Saito adds cryptographic signatures to the network layer. Each transaction contains an unforgeable record of the path it takes into the network. This allows us to measure the "routing work" contained any transaction at any point in its journey. This is the value of the transaction fee halved with each additional hop beyond the first that the transaction has taken into the network.

The blockchain sets a "difficulty" for block production. This difficulty is met by including transactions containing adequate "routing work" into blocks. Consensus rules specify that nodes cannot use "routing work" from transactions if they are not included in the routing path. A bonus payment may be issued to block producers if there is more "routing work" in their blocks than required by consensus.

3. THE PAYMENT LOTTERY

Each block contains a NEW proof-of-work challenge in its block hash. This is not used to produce blocks since (section 2) Saito does not using hashing to produce blocks. Instead, miners solve these challenges to release payments. Once a solution is found it is broadcast into the network in the form of a normal, fee-paying transaction. ` If a solution is not found and included by the time the next block is produced, the funds eventually fall off the chain (when they pass out of the current epoch) and are collected by the consensus layer for eventual inclusion in a future block reward. But if exactly one solution is included in the very next block the network splits the block reward between the lucky miner and a routing node selected randomly from the previous block. Each routing node has a chance of winning proportional to the amount of work it contributed to that block.

Mining difficulty auto-adjusts until the network produces one golden ticket on average per block.

4. ADVANCED SAITO

Saito eliminates the fifty-one percent attack: attackers must lock-up/burn 100 percent of all transaction fees to produce blocks. This can only be done by spending their own money. Unless they also match one hundred percent of mining they will not get that money back. This provides a quantifiable cost-of-attack that does not disappear under majoritarian conditions.

It is possible to increase attack costs beyond 100 percent by increasing mining difficulty so that one solution is found every N blocks on average. When issuing payments, if the previous block did not contain a golden ticket solution, we hash the random variable used to select the winning routing node to select a winner from a table of stakers. Repeat until all unsolved blocks have been processed. An upper limit to backwards recusion may be applied for practical purposes. Mining difficulty adjust upwards if N blocks containing golden tickets are found in a row and downwards if N blocks without golden tickets are found in a row.

Users stake by broadcasting specially-formatted transactiona that add their UTXO to a list of "pending stakers". Once the current staking table has been fully paid-out, all pending UTXO are moved into the "current stakers" table. Stakers may not withdraw or spend their UTXO until they have received payment. The payout to stakers is the average of routing share during the previous genesis period, normalized to the winning UTXO's percentage of the staking table. Limits may be put on the size of the staking pool to induce competition between stakers if desirable.

This system requires modifications to Automatic Transaction Rebroadcasting. Block producers who rebroadcast UTXO must now indicate whether specific outputs are in the current or pending pool. This modification permits all nodes to reconstruct the state of both staking pools within one genesis period at most.

5. FINAL NOTES ON BLOCK ROUTING

There are many data-flooding attacks in POW / POS networks. The anti-sybil properties of Saito makes many of these impossible in our network. Nonetheless, we note that attackers masquarading as good citizens can hypothetically produce a unlimited number of potentially blocks at any particular block depth - the guaranteed cost of block production only applies upon the production of the second block.

In the event the network adopts a small-world form in which all nodes connect to all nodes, attackers can theoretically induce data-threshing attacks by creating custom blocks and trying to get other nodes to forward / flood the network with their data. It is not clear if this is a practical vulnerabvility, but it is possible to solve by adding cryptographic signatures to block propagation. This permits peers to identify nodes which are not following network policy - peers can not propagate subsequent blocks produced by the same creator at the same block depth.

Try this, helped me a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkApvfRgeNw

Feels like it, I'm hoping this change with ETH 2.0.

Probably an exchange or a payment platform for business, this last one can be very profitable because some stores could want to be able to sell on crypto but not keeping it, so they would like to receive the fiat right away, you can add a % as your fee for each sell, keep the crypto and transfer them the fiat at the end of the day. That is also easier for them since most people still do not want to manage wallets, keys, etc.

It has been dead in Venezuela for years, so nothing has changed here. Hahaha, that is why I have all my trust on bitcoin and few other cryptos.

But being honest is really hard to predict mostly because on autumn and winter everything could be worst.

Im the other way around, it's really hard for me to use my BTC, but I don't give a flying f... about the alts, the most that I use as payment is LTC.

The number 1 reason that the economy of a country will go down it's because of corruption.

If you are really interested in this, you can check out the case of my country, Venezuela. The problem is that depending on where do you get the info, It will be very biased, mostly because the left like to use this as an example of how evil is the world and US bullying a shitty country.

To get to the point, one of the biggest flaws of this economy its that always has been based in a single product economy (oil), its has been like that for decades, but we one of the best and more profitable oil companies in the world, but for the last 20 years this have been milked for the dictatorship of Chavez and Maduro, to the point that when the took this the daily oil production in 2000-2003 was about 3m daily barrels, and now is around 500k (in 2019 was 800k so it's not because of the covid19).

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39532#:~:text=In%20April%202019%2C%20Venezuela's%20crude,2019%20Short%2DTerm%20Energy%20Outlook.

https://www.ceicdata.com/en/indicator/venezuela/crude-oil-production

Why is this? Because of the corruption going rampant in the country, many people that used to work for this company have flee from the country, there is 0 investment on improvements, maintenance or hire of capable personal to keep it running, beside a horrid leak of capital on contracts that are unnecessary or do not ever get done, the refinement from oil to gas stopped completely and we now need to import the gas from other countries.

Countries with single production economy are really vulnerable to falls like this under bad management, but still something like this can dent the economy of anywhere if you give it enough time, the thing is that here they didn't need to hurry, they knew the could to it slowly and put the blame on others with their never-ending victim complex.

That happens with 99% of the alts and 100% of the shitcoins, I learned it in the bad way as well, If you want something for long, go BTC, and ALTs for short, always be ready to dump them.

I have been wondering this for a while now, how many of you keep your coins in binance? No matter what exchange is, I feel you can't trust any of them.

Check out https://saito.io/
Boardgames running on top of the blockchain, part of the blocks and tx are generated by playing on the site (using the Saito consensus Mechanism)

The current games are:
Chess
Twilight Struggle
Pandemic
Scotland Yard
Poker (you don't actually gamble anything)
Wordblocks

And some others that are still in development.

You can check the daily TXs generated at https://blocktivity.info/ , have been running for a few months and almost ready for the final release, its up to anyone that likes this kind of games and want to play.

Probably not for the most, remember that since is still a baby technology, most of those failed cryptos were only a cash grab, with very few or nontechnological improvements at all and based almost completely on an advertisement, FOMO or crazy promises of getting rich in one day, maybe just a few had some real use and were forked into something new or a lesson for future development.

Yep, probably we will see tech companies, banks and governments, using their reputation to launch ICOs, it will be easier for them to gather all that money that some noname-developers. So yeah, I'm afraid that this will hit the crypto world even worst than before.

I agree in one part with you here, but the problem is that he also bought (afaik) coins that shouldn't be in the market from one of the developers, under the table, so it wasn't really like a free market take over, more like a sneaky move.

I just HODL my XLM, for me is a coin that could have real life uses and can have a good pump in the future, IMO is not another shitcoin.

Measuring my gains/losses for years, I would have around 30% more of my portfolio value just keeping all in BTC (for long), I have learned that alts are only good for short or for their utility, well that is my opinion.

For me would be:
1. Bitcoin
2. Eth
3. Hive
4. Monero
5. Ada
6. Ltc
7. Stellar
8. BNB
9. VeChain