[ANNOUNCE] 'MineCoin': Minecraft-based Bitcoin 'mining' tournaments.

[ebildude123]

Do we need any sort of custom client for this

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[maco]

Sounds like fun. I outta try this later on. Does it require real BTC to participate?

[uncaer9]

Beta test was very fun, I've joined the first economy game as soon as I saw it.

[docius]

Sounds like fun. I outta try this later on. Does it require real BTC to participate?

Yeah, the entry fee for the economy game is 10 mBTC. Hope to see you there.

[docius]

Do we need any sort of custom client for this

No, you can use the vanilla Minecraft client.

[docius]

You can just use the mailing list, or email me directly (mike@plan99.net). Mailing list is better.

Thanks Mike, we're seriously looking at implementing this as it appears like a perfect fit... particularly with the zero-trust element.

We'll be in touch.

[maco]

Sounds like fun. I outta try this later on. Does it require real BTC to participate?

Yeah, the entry fee for the economy game is 10 mBTC. Hope to see you there.

When does this take place? How can I follow up on tournament days & times?

Also, how is progress so far? You getting much attention with it?

[docius]

When does this take place? How can I follow up on tournament days & times?

Also, how is progress so far? You getting much attention with it?

Hey Maco,

• 6th of July, 7.30 pm (PDT). The entry fee is 10 mBTC.
• If you check the front page https://minecoin.co there's a green banner at the top of the page with information on the next game. After you register (free, only need an email) you'll be able to join any upcoming games after you verify your Minecraft username (easy process, no need to input your password or anything like that). Also we place you on our mailing list to let you know when the next game is on.
• We've run a successful beta (gave away > 80 mBTC) and identified a couple of bugs that we've have since fixed and some we're working on. Everything works, we're just making improvements in processing BTC withdrawal requests (we process these manually as a security measure). So our goal is to seamlessly receive a withdrawal request and process it under 12 hours at most.
• We have received some attention, but we certainly need more. I think this is largely trust-dependent. Certainly one of our weaknesses RE trust is that players need to pay the entry-fee before the game starts. We are very interested in implementing the micro-payment channels via Bitcoinj https://code.google.com/p/bitcoinj/wiki/WorkingWithMicropayments, which will resolve this issue. For the moment we just invite everyone to test us our with small entry-fee games like the one coming up on the 6th of July.

Hope to see you in the game!

[inform]

summer this start
but why not news?
Ocotber 2013