Diving into Blockchain Development
scoopstakes·@nanzo-scoop·
0.000 HBDDiving into Blockchain Development
<center>  </center> So I’ve decided to take the plunge into Blockchain development. It’s an ‘itch’ I’ve been wanting to scratch for a while and now seems the perfect moment. I’ve been running a sports prediction game on Steem for a while called Scoopstakes. The game is quite simple. Users enter the score predictions for football matches and the entrants with the most correct guesses win. Sky runs a similar thing with their [Super6 game](https://super6.skysports.com/). The BBC do Lawro’s predictions. For Scoopstakes, I wanted a game that was global and rewarded entrants with automated prizes. Big prizes for those at the top of the leaderboard, down to micro-payments for those in lower positions. I ran a ‘quick-and-dirty’ alpha of Scoopstakes on Steem. Allowing users to enter via comments on blog posts. Overall I took a lot of learning out of the experiment. Particular around the data-flow on the backend. Now I’m ready to take Scoopstakes to the next level, so other the next few months that will be my pet project. ----- To find out more of my thoughts, in particular, what my main challenge with the alpha version of Scoopstakes was, [sign up to my Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/join/nanzoscoop) and read the [extended version of this article](https://www.patreon.com/posts/30924456). # Join my Patreon: Do you like my content or would you like to earn cryptocurrency rewards? [Join now](https://www.patreon.com/join/nanzoscoop): <center><a href='https://www.patreon.com/join/nanzoscoop'><img src='https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmW2tebBSg4LwGLxPHZKTAm4Ws6sYCT4uWL8ZKM9RDRRhF/Patreon%20_join_art_version_2.1.png' /></a></center> Image credit by <a href="https://pixabay.com/users/WorldSpectrum-7691421/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=3159208" class="steem-keychain-checked">WorldSpectrum</a> from <a href="https://pixabay.com/?utm_source=link-attribution&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=image&utm_content=3159208" class="steem-keychain-checked">Pixabay</a>
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