The only answer that respects the foundational principles of Bitcoin is to do nothing. The owner of the coins in all P2PK addresses need to make their own decisions.

That being said, if (that is a big IF) there was a way that makes sense that would sort of recycle these coins into a perpetual block subsidy of some sort, it might be interesting. But then again, I see no way of doing that without violating someone else’s property right.

Interesting debate though. At the end, Bitcoin should be something where you could go to sleep for 25 years and when you wake up, nothing fundamental has changed except that your coins are worth more.

Yeah true, saw it now. Was a bit hard to discern on mobile. In any case, same thing holds. I am happy to refund anyone having problems. It’s not my intent to steal sats. It seems that at some point the game state was corrupted leading to new game rooms being opened up for every new player instead of joining an existing one. I could not reproduce it for now since it only seems to occur after the game has been running for many days and many games were played. Maybe some race condition or collision of ids. It’s not something that appeared during my testing though. Point being, I didn’t advertise it as a polished product where you should gamble with your life savings. Not that you should do that anyway. So I don’t understand your downvote but it’s a free world. Just wanted to clarify my point of view.

No worries man. Happy you like it :) means a lot and I’ll definitely wanna keep improving. On Easter break right now, but have a backlog for later.

Yes, it’s on the roadmap :) thx for the hint

Sure that’s fair. Like I said, happy to refund you if you tell me your username and roughly when you tried to join.

If you tell me the username that you used and at what time you tried to join, I am happy to check the logs and refund you. The game is not perfect as of yet which I never claimed and these shortcomings I have disclosed in my post. I am sure there are bugs in the game that I intend to iron out over time but I am just one guy doing this in his free time because I am having fun building lightning applications. If you don’t want to risk some sats on experimental apps, that’s your right but I don’t feel that I misrepresented anything here and don’t get why I get my reputation downvotes because of that.

i called it satoshi strike ;) just follow the link try it

hi, thanks a lot! i built this with websockets and nodejs. a typical stack for real time applications. in the background i am calling functions of my lightning node to generate invoices and verify payments and so on. concerning the code, in this phase of the development i am not super keen on making it open source. I am sure there are some potential vulnerabilities that some bad actors would love to exploit. later on it's something i would consider though. maybe also collaborate with other programmers.

Yes, the game is definitely in development, that I wrote in the intro ;) But i just checked and saw that my lightning node crashed in the middle of the night. Someone ddosd me (or some process went wild) and crashed the instance it seems. was the glitch you are speaking of that you could not generate an invoice and therefore not enter the game? in any case, i restarted it now and hardened some endpoints. works again. need to investigate the root cause further though.

Thanks! very appreciated! Yes, the low player count is an issue I expected for the beginning. the long waiting sucks. as someone here suggested i might add some npc's at least for the start. as for your connection issue, where are you (roughly) connecting from and how good is your internet speed generally? i placed the server in central europe, so maybe from australia for example latency might be not so great. at least for me it seems to run smooth. but definitely, i wanna improve the game on all fronts. so thanks for your feedback!

i can't challenge you with a new account it seems ;) feel free to challenge me. 100 sats for the winner :) k?

just had to make a new account. made an account and added you ;)

btw. just saw your chess grind post ;D happy to challenge you in chess for a couple sats. I think i am roughly your level (even though i haven't played for a long time, so don't have all openings ready anymore)

:D a racket? haha okay. i put a lot of work into it and the server is also not free. in any case, if you are good at it, you basically make an 80% return on your investment every game. i plan to make more room sizes and different buy ins later if there are more players. then you'll have lots of options regarding what you are willing to risk/pay

Yeah, I remember Wii tanks (or whatever it was called) very fondly from my childhood. Back then I always wanted an online mode for it :D

Good point regarding the waiting list. I will add it in the next update! Thank you!

Good point. Maybe I'll make a little manual or something so players know ;)

NPCs is actually a good idea as an 'starting help' :) I will have a look. I hope that the wait times get a bit lower if the game is spread a bit more over the internet but it was also a worry of mine that in the beginning the low player count might be a bit frustrating. Will think about what can be done. Regarding webln, i will check this out. I am just getting started with lightning development. was already nice to get lnurl withdraw to work haha. Thanks for the input!

Hi, I set it to 10 bullets every 5 seconds. You think it's too much?

Thanks for trying it :) maybe I need to make the WASD navigation a bit more clear? a lot of people try using arrow keys. or maybe just allow both?

Thank you very much! :) While I was building I thought multiple times how awesome lightning is. Also tried some other bitcoin lightning powered games online. It's just so seemless. No bs signup, pay, play, withdraw.

this time you got me. hope the withdrawal worked ;) i have to unfortunately run now. thanks for playing and happy to hear your feedback