PPP #1: Introducing STACKER

For the Legends of Lightning hackathon I'm bringing to life a project I've had in mind for a few years now but never had the motivation to implement until now. It's a platform where users get credited a few sats for watching a quick video advertisement and then get randomly matched up with another player. The two players will compete in a quick strategy game and the winner will take all the sats. The winner has the chance to repeat the process and play against someone else who has won for double the sats. This process repeats over and over again with a doubling of the prize pool each time. Depending on what the initial amount ends up being it only takes ~24 doubles to reach a whole bitcoin in earnings.

For example: Let's assume you earn 10 sats for watching the ad. The first game you get matched up with someone and you both wager your 10 sats and the winner earns 20 sats. The next game you can wager your 20 sats against someone else willing to wager their 20 sats and the winner takes 40 sats. This process repeats forever. You don't have to wager your entire balance each time. For example, say you doubled up a few times and reached 160 sats then you could bank 80 sats and start your next game with a wager of 80 sats or whatever you were comfortable with.

As part of this project there is a separate lightning-native advertising platform being built out. Advertisers will be able to upload short video advertisements, set a CPM, and fund the ad via lightning. These sats will then be distributed to end-users as the ads are viewed. If you're interested in advertising on the STACKER platform please reach out on twitter for details.

Progress:

• I have created and launched a landing page where users can signup for the beta once it's ready to be launched at https://stacker.gg

• Started to flesh out the advertising platform to onboard initial advertisers

Plans:

• Launch the advertising platform beta and onboard the first publisher

Problems:

• No problems yet. Full steam ahead!