RE: dNations - A new war and nation building game on the blockchain!
Huh? What is DStors and what does that have to do with me? I don't really know what you mean? Btw, it was clear in my post that it wasn't going to be built on Steem. I said I was leaning towards EOS but was still undecided. I also said the pre-launch tokens will be on the Waves platform. Balances will be transferred over to whichever chain we end up using. I'm pretty sure I explained how the delegations would work for earning tokens, idk maybe I forgot that part.
From my post:
Also include your Waves wallet address. DNB is being issued through Waves and will be moved to EOS for our mainnet launch.
Also, I've looked into the limits of what can be done with Steem now and it's still just lacking quite a few things I need. If the SMT launch actually happens in March (that's the last date that Ned gave) then I will definitely be considering it.
DStors is a decentralized online store project that forgot to mention in its whitepaper that it was going to use Custom JSON objects on Steem to store information on buyers and sellers, trades and the merchandise.
You said you were going to use smart contracts. I'm afraid that those are not part of the Steem roadmap at the moment. If you are going to use smart contracts, then a platform like EOS is definitely a better choice as EOS has a virtual machine that can execute them and efficiently unlike a PoW chain like Ethereum.
In this conversation you have cleared up things that were unclear to me. Thank you.
Oh really? I thought SMT's were essentially smart contracts? I haven't really looked into them too much since the release has been pretty unclear. Do you know if there's any documentation on SMTs available anywhere?
SMT's are going to be something like ERC-20 tokens on Ethereum. The idea was that there be special purpose smart contracts to control issuance run by the Steem blockchain code. Also, an ICO functionality is in the roadmap, now postponed by Steemit Inc. until the market recovers. But Steem does not have a virtual machine capable of executing arbitrary smart contracts like Ethereum or EOS. There was some talk about creating a primitive version of smart contracts using side chains by Dan Larrimer about two years ago. But no side chains have been implemented. Steem is essentially a special purpose chain created for content delivery and rewarding. It has the ability to have Custom JSON data stored on it that does not use the reward system.<
Here's something for starters: https://smt.steem.com/
Ah okay. Yeah I had a totally different idea of how SMT's would function in my mind.
Also another note: I'm building a simple bot that will automatically transfer tokens to people who send steem/sbd to me with a specific memo included. Also to handle the delegations and automatically pay out. I'm probably going to make a seperate Steem account for the game so everything for it can be managed there instead of through my profile.
Great. I'll be looking forward to your project. We want gamers to be brought into crypto en masse and your project will be of help.
By the way, you handled my somewhat negative comments gracefully which is always confidence inspiring.
So, after looking in to SMT's a bit more, I have some ideas floating around that I might end up doing.
I also have another idea. It's hard for newbies to get discovered no matter how good their content. I'm thinking about building a Steem interface (perhaps a fork of Steemit or Busy) with the main difference being the trending and hot pages.
I want to tweak the algorithm that decides what posts appear on those pages. This could bring new users with good content to the hot or trending page much easier and thus giving them much needed exposure.
I'd also like to change how the post promotion feature in Steemit is handled. No one checks the promoted category. Ive looked at it 1 time over the last year and a half. :P
There is an AI based front end called Steeve. You might want to check it out.
https://www.steeve.app/@steeveapp
Yeah I just saw that. Looks interesting and is along the lines of what I want to do. I wouldn't keep the same front page layout. I'd most likely change the layouts of the blog posts. Utilize the promoted posts to incorporate them into category feeds. kind of how fb and twitter do their ads inline. this will help eliminate the need for bid bots.
Haha no problem. And I agree 100%