BTCTALK CARDS - The Real-time Custom Cards for Bitcointalk Members

[webtricks]

Real-time Custom Bitcointalk Card Creator

On the occasion of 10th anniversary of the forum, I am pleased to present you all BTCTalk Cards. With BTCTalk Cards, you can generate your own very-custom cards in real-time. Just fill your Bitcointalk ID, choose your specifications and your card will be generated in the matter of seconds.

Create your Own Card Now & Flex in this thread: Click Here

Some Examples:

[1713967216]

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[webtricks]

Note One: I use BPIP to get trust ratings. Currently trust ratings on BPIP are not accurate for most of the members so reputation score maybe uneven at the moment. I will try to resolve that or wait for BPIP to show correct data. Reputation Score is now working fine for every member

Update Log:

Code:

Update 1: 'Bitcoiner' has been replaced with 'Bitcointalker' on the suggestion of many members.

Update 2: Now you can add custom image on your card. Just click 'Custom Avatar' in Avatar section and paste your image url. The format of image can be PNG, JPEG or GIF.

Update 3: Font for digit '4' has been improvised.

Update 4: Reputation score has been fixed for all the members.

Update 5: BFF feature has been deprecated. Trust has been added in place.

[LoyceMobile]

The BFFs seem to be a very select group. Based on the largest Merit cycling I guess?

I like it! Summoning LoyceV to unleash that increased Merit source on you!


For trust ratings: if you feed your browser cookies to your scraper, you can get it from the forum directly.

[DireWolfM14]

Are you trying to not-so-subtly imply that suchmoon is an alt of theymos?

[Vod]

Nice work!

How do you calculate the reputation score?

Posts/Activity is redundant.  Posts can be manipulated/spammed.  Activity is the better solution.  What about the trust score?  You could use all three values as attributes in a card game.  Make each card a crypto asset.  I could provide the verified membership system and arena if you decide you want to go ahead with it.

Also, since these stats change over time, you could have the cards dynamic.  
1: "Hey, want to buy Vod for 0.1 btc?"
2: "Maybe, but not this month - he lost the DT1 lottery and is weak.  I'll give you 0.05"

Create your Own Card Now & Flex in this thread: Click Here

For Vod I get the error:

Enter a valid BitcoinTalk ID

[DireWolfM14]

For Vod I get the error:
Enter a valid BitcoinTalk ID

Try this:

Code:

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[webtricks]

The BFFs seem to be a very select group. Based on the largest Merit cycling I guess?

BFF is the person who gave you the maximum merits. I had one slot of stat empty so filled it with BFF at the last minute. 

I like it! Summoning LoyceV to unleash that increased Merit source on you!

Wow! Sounds wonderful. Waiting for LoyceV army.

For trust ratings: if you feed your browser cookies to your scraper, you can get it from the forum directly.

Yeah. I tried that and it worked too. But won't it give retrospective results?

Are you trying to not-so-subtly imply that suchmoon is an alt of theymos?

Haha, I had no such intentions. Was just short of avatars.

[Bttzed03]

How to adjust the image to fit into my avatar?

[tranthidung]

How to adjust the image to fit into my avatar?

Not only this, I want to point out another suggestion.

For now, the card will be created using currently worn avatar of one user. It means if I am wearing a signature of a company I advertise for, I am unable to create my card with my own avatar.

In additiona, there is a bit delay of avatar update. I tried to update with my own avatar just to create the card I want but it still using my previous avatar.
I suggest several things:

• Add link to browse and load personal avatars when creating cards.
• Smaller fonts for all texts, excludes: Star, Username, and Reputation.
• Using lower-case for all contents, not Capitalize all text like the current version

[webtricks]

Nice work!

How do you calculate the reputation score?

Posts/Activity is redundant.  Posts can be manipulated/spammed.  Activity is the better solution.  What about the trust score?

Yeah even I feel post count is wrong for the calculation since it has very wide range and hardly a link with reputation (see Quickseller). Will edit reputation code to give much less importance to posts.

 You could use all three values as attributes in a card game.  Make each card a crypto asset.  I could provide the verified membership system and arena if you decide you want to go ahead with it.

Also, since these stats change over time, you could have the cards dynamic.  
1: "Hey, want to buy Vod for 0.1 btc?"
2: "Maybe, but not this month - he lost the DT1 lottery and is weak.  I'll give you 0.05"

I already had thought over this and here is what I propose if we wanna go with game:

1. Restrict the cards to top 2000 members to make game reasonable.

2. Card identifier system. Once card is generated, an identifier will be printed on it which could be verified from 'card verification tool'. For example card with identifier gtjd-difi-4523-idfd when verified will give results like: This Vod Black Card was generated by user having member Id: 114505564721. This card belongs to the batch of December, 2019. The stats of card are as follow.... So even though I have the photo card but the real ownership of the card will lie with the member who generated it.

3. Card Trading House. This is the place where member can generate card, store it and trade it.

4. A monthly batch of cards rather than real-time. New stats will be updated on first of every month. So the card generated on 1st or 28th of the month will look same. This is to make game competitive.

5. PvP card game. A game where I can bet against another player. For example, I bet 0.001 with my Theymos Card and you matched my game and you entered the game with DarkStar_ Card. To make game interesting, one random card will be drawn for both side at that very moment (which will be purely random and provably-fair) and the average of both card will decide the winner. So having strong card will win only half of your game. Now suppose second card for me is Webtricks Basic Card and you get Lauda Golden Card then you will win on average even if my base card was strong.

6. To make cards valuable and scarce, a user can only generate 10 cards a month by paying card generation fees like 0.0005 BTC. The user will have equal chance of getting Theymos card or Webtricks card for that 0.0005 BTC. Once generated, the user can sale the same card in trading house for much-much high. For example, Theymos will have very high value (like 0.03-0.04 BTC) whereas Webtricks will hardly have (like 0.0005-0.00075 BTC value). So to play the game, user first have to own at least one base card which he can either generate randomly for 0.0005 BTC or buy any specific card from trading house for market price.

7. Once card is traded, the new identifier will be generated and old will expire. So if user with ID: 114505564721 sells his Vod card of December, 2019 batch to user with ID: 452152604521 then gtjd-difi-4523-idfd will show 'identifier expired, this card is sold' and user: 452152604521 will get new card with same stats but new identifier.


So this is my proposition. What do you say?

Also my big question - Who will play the game?

Do we have enough support from btctalk family that I go forward and spend next month developing above said? Will members here actually play and involve in this?

[webtricks]

How to adjust the image to fit into my avatar?

I am afraid that's not possible. I can't dynamically change the size of image as per the size of avatar. It is impossible stuff to do.  Alternatively, you can change your avatar size to 120px*80px.

For now, the card will be created using currently worn avatar of one user. It means if I am wearing a signature of a company I advertise for, I am unable to create my card with my own avatar.
In additiona, there is a bit delay of avatar update. I tried to update with my own avatar just to create the card I want but it still using my previous avatar.

That's delay is from bitcointalk. It takes 30 minutes to show your new avatar on bitcointalk if one is wore already. No problem, I will create option to choose custom image as avatar shortly. But you have to enter URL - a valid URL to show avatar. Moreover, size of image should be 120px*80px. Just give me 2-3 hours since I just woke up and I will add this option shortly.

• Add link to browse and load personal avatars when creating cards.

This I won't do. I don't wanna fill space on my disk. I will only allow option to choose avatar. So first upload image to imgur or imgbb and then paste that link to create avatar.

• Smaller fonts for all texts, excludes: Star, Username, and Reputation.

Fonts are fine, aren't they? If some text goes out of box then tell me, I will fix that.

• Using lower-case for all contents, not Capitalize all text like the current version

I am afraid uppercase is standard format for such cards. Believe me, lowercase will look horrible. It will look like some 4th grader trying to write cursive.

[tranthidung]

• Smaller fonts for all texts, excludes: Star, Username, and Reputation.

Fonts are fine, aren't they? If some text goes out of box then tell me, I will fix that.

• Using lower-case for all contents, not Capitalize all text like the current version

I am afraid uppercase is standard format for such cards. Believe me, lowercase will look horrible. It will look like some 4th grader trying to write cursive.

Those options are for personal favorites, so I still think you should expand to new options, lower-/ upper-case, fontsize. Then people will choose what they want for their cards.

[Welsh]

Literally, opened a thread about maybe getting a trading card game off the ground. If something like this could be created for physical cards then I think that would be pretty neat. The only issue with this is all the cards would have to be custom designed, and would need to avoid using copyrighted images.

Any plans on creating physical cards of these?

[webtricks]

Updates:
Update 1: 'Bitcoiner' has been replaced with 'Bitcointalker' on the suggestion of many members.

Update 2: Now you can add custom image on your card. Just click 'Custom Avatar' in Avatar section and paste your image url. The format of image can be PNG, JPEG or GIF.

Example for Update 2:

[The Sceptical Chymist]

Any plans on creating physical cards of these?

I would love this, and there was an idea floating around last year or earlier this year that never got traction--which is sort of the same situation with the bitcointalk commemorative coin which has been suggested.  I think a physical set of trading cards or playing cards featuring some of the most notable members of the forum would be an incredible snapshot of what the forum is like ten years on.  You could look back on such a set years later and wonder what happened to those members or recollect fondly on a piece of history.  It's a great idea IMO.

It's probably a good way to make money for whoever makes such a set, too.  I'd sure as hell buy one, probably two.  There are some very talented designers and manufacturers in the Collectibles section, and I'm sure some of them would have no trouble making a set.  Webtricks did a great job with his design here, and I'd be happy with a card of his design (though he'd have to make a backside).

[webtricks]

Literally, opened a thread about maybe getting a trading card game off the ground. If something like this could be created for physical cards then I think that would be pretty neat. The only issue with this is all the cards would have to be custom designed, and would need to avoid using copyrighted images.

Any plans on creating physical cards of these?

I have no plans to go for physical cards. Maybe someone else can decide to make these come alive. If anyone else can take initiative, I can provide all that required for making cards worth collectible - like more neat design, holographic design, etc.

[Welsh]

I would love this, and there was an idea floating around last year or earlier this year that never got traction--which is sort of the same situation with the bitcointalk commemorative coin which has been suggested.  I think a physical set of trading cards or playing cards featuring some of the most notable members of the forum would be an incredible snapshot of what the forum is like ten years on.  You could look back on such a set years later and wonder what happened to those members or recollect fondly on a piece of history.  It's a great idea IMO.

It's probably a good way to make money for whoever makes such a set, too.  I'd sure as hell buy one, probably two.  There are some very talented designers and manufacturers in the Collectibles section, and I'm sure some of them would have no trouble making a set.  Webtricks did a great job with his design here, and I'd be happy with a card of his design (though he'd have to make a backside).

Yeah, I tried to push for the collectible coin, and was still open to it. A "big" manufacturer actually got in touch, and said they would be interested. However, when I messaged back asking for a little more details to get the ball rolling they didn't answer. Although, they didn't actually log into the forum account. So, that's a shame, and it was fairly ambitious to get it all done, and ready for the 10th anniversary. I'd definitely be willing to contribute for other significant landmarks of the forum though.

As for the cards they're definitely a lot less ambitious, and easier to do. Deciding on a business model for the cards is probably the hardest. The most fun way would be to have random packs, but I just don't think there would be enough interest. So, making cards for the top 100 recognized using the BPIP's data with Vod's permission would likely be the best idea. Designing these cards with holographic card, and colouring them based on their position within the 100 would probably be better considering the costs.

Literally, opened a thread about maybe getting a trading card game off the ground. If something like this could be created for physical cards then I think that would be pretty neat. The only issue with this is all the cards would have to be custom designed, and would need to avoid using copyrighted images.

Any plans on creating physical cards of these?

I have no plans to go for physical cards. Maybe someone else can decide to make these come alive. If anyone else can take initiative, I can provide all that required for making cards worth collectible - like more neat design, holographic design, etc.
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That's alright. I do believe we'll eventually get some physical cards made if there seems to be enough interest.

[sashapan]

 
Thanks for this project. I also made myself a card. I really liked

[ryzaadit]

Trying to create my own card.

The title only shows up for numeric & alphabet word, i try to add a Japanese word from my personal text but it doesn't show up. I think add a preview at the bottom would be good, we can see the preview of the card before generating the card. Anyway, would you also add "Hat Generator" at the future like the WO family? I want to create my own hat since i can't do a photoshop its a bit hard for me created my personal hats xD.

[sashapan]

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