Let’s play a game while the wonderful people from the MaidSafe team have not yet removed all the difficulties facing the network
Objective
Participants must predict how much time will pass before each of the 50 silos (AntChain units) “breaks” or becomes inaccessible. The game is inspired by the Silo series, where Silo 1 records the time of each silo’s “death.”
How to Play
Each of the 50 units is named Silo1 → Silo50.
Players submit their predicted date of collapse for each silo.
When a silo becomes inaccessible, the actual date of its collapse is recorded.
The player whose prediction is closest to the actual date for a given silo wins 100 ANT for that silo.
Example
Player A predicts Silo7 will collapse on November 28, 2025.
The actual collapse occurs at November 27, 2025.
If this is the closest prediction among all participants, Player A wins 100 ANT.
Prize Pool
Total: 5000 ANT
50 prizes of 100 ANT each – one prize per silo
There is no “grand winner” – prizes are distributed evenly across silos
Rules and Guidelines
Participants may adjust their predictions until a set deadline - 24 hours before a silo collapse).
Not sure if it’s just me, but this seems a bit distasteful.
The team is doing their best, and there are some serious challenges to overcome… making a game out of the network issues seems like rubbing it in their face a bit.
Maybe I’m being over sensitive, but thats how it comes across to me.
Anyone can get bothered by different things, but I assure you there’s no intention to offend on my part.
As @JimCollinson taught me, I treat uploading data as something fun and don’t take it too seriously — otherwise I’d probably be annoyed about the dozens of hours I lost last month.
And if it turns out the game is a complete failure simply because there are no more incidents, that would be an interesting and fun outcome as well.
I mean, you’re doing loads of great stuff, so I don’t expect you’re intending offense & you clearly want the network to do well, but I’m highlighting how I think it may come across that the team… though they may just want to make a prediction with insider info
I believe the team has confidence in their ability to resolve the issues. This is a temporary situation, and one day people will look back at these early discussions and wonder what the early days of the network were like.
Even if the current situation continues for another six months or even a year, the problems will eventually be addressed, and this period will be just a small part of the network’s overall lifespan.
Coating things in good sounding words does not make bad things good, it seems similar to what happened yesterday when telling there were only 200 adresses, please stop short selling the project.
The reference to the collapse is to the collapse of the silos, not the project. Perhaps the title is misleading for people unfamiliar with the books/series…
When they see humorless flakes taking offense at every little rib and disguising their mental inadequacy as sympathy no-one asks for, they’ll be elated to have found more boring people to hang around, beside the other 7 billions or so, I’m sure.
Ok, things are getting out of hand and the joke’s already a bit spoiled, but if we’re going to be that serious, here’s the real twist — and the fun part was supposed to be how long it would take before anyone noticed…
Every archive from every silo will secretly stash, in its .txt file, all the data addresses from the previous day’s archives of every other silo.
In other words, the chances of a silo actually dying are microscopic. Even if there are holes in the silos, even if one is intact on a particular day, the data chain does not break. So either everyone survives or none survives.… meaning the game is basically unwinnable. Enjoy!
We are going to see very biased bets.. if you bet that they will never crash, you will never win even if you are right
How about adding a bet for how long they all survive? 0.1 ants / day, ie if you bet that they will survive 10 days, you’ll win 1 Ant if they are all alive after 10 days?
Actually, the best expected profit for the OP bet might be tomorrow for all the silos, even if you think they will last forever . The longer they stay alive, the more propably they will stay alive longer..
But the problem is that tomorrow someone will bet for the day after tomorrow
I don’t think you got the joke — there aren’t 50 separate AntChains. There’s one chain with 50 copies that reference each other. The data chain can only break if all 50 copies are lost on the same day, and even without @neo -level math skills, that seems pretty close to zero…
. The longer they stay alive, the more propably they will stay alive longer..
