Hey everybody.
I'd like to announce the project I've been working on for the last few weeks.
bit-loot.com is a money hunting game: LTC (currently ~100) is hidden in tiles around the tree.
Click the tiles you would like to search, paste in your LTC address, and click Go.
The site will generate a unique receiving address and tell you how much it will cost to search those tiles.
Send your bet, and bit-loot will search the tiles you selected and return any loot contained therein to your address.
Your bet will then be randomly distributed across the tree for others to find.
The house takes a 2.5% cut.
Please report any bugs or post suggestions!
Edit:Update: corrected a bug where ajax calls to validate.php (the script that checks the validity of a submitted LTC address) were getting blocked by modsecurity2
Apparently some LTC addresses being evaluated by a RegEX query were coming back as likely to be part of an SQL injection attack. Lol
It's fixed now. If the site wasn't behaving properly for anybody, it should work now.
Edit:There was a little confusion regarding the payout calculation method so I thought I would clarify:
When playing, the cost per tile is calculated with:
S = L / T
S = the per block cost to search.
L = Total loot on the board (for instance: 100)
T = Total number of tiles on the game board (400)
S = 100 / 400 = 0.25
So, to search two blocks, the cost would be 0.25 * 2 = 0.5
When the bet is received, the backend looks in
specifially the coordinates you specified to see if they contain any loot. It adds up any loot that is found, deducts 2.5% from this and sends the rest to the address you provided.
Then, it takes your bet (0.5 in this case) and randomly places it in a tile on the board for someone else to find. In the case of larger bets (say, 2 LTC for instance), it will distribute the loot across the board in increments approximately equal to 2x the per-block bet (2*S) (so it would hide 0.5 LTC in 4 different tiles).
Some tiles on the board will thus end up containing multiple bets worth of loot and are like mini "jackpots"
Hope this clears that up
