Social Game Idea: A prize pool runs forever

2•xingwu•13h ago

I got a crazy idea:

- there's a prize pool holding $10000 - anyone who put $0.1 into it will win the full prize, if nobody else participate within 5 min

All logic in an open-source smart contract.

What will happen?

It won't make any money but might gain a lot of traffic, worth building?

Comments

xingwu•13h ago

I set up a poll (https://x.com/xing101/status/1918543971778797863):

this game will end in: A. one hour; B. one week; C. runs forever

herbst•13h ago

I saw very similar things on TRX and SOL before. Not sure how they ended, but it didn't appear to be very popular.

If you actually out 10k and no fee to get that back it surely would be a bit different

xingwu•12h ago

Ha, Thanks for the info - I knew people should have tried this before, but couldn't find any related info.

I'm thinking about some promotional events on X like this:

If you put money into the pool you become a sponsor; If you follow a sponsor's X you can participate it for free.

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