Very excited for this sub. Great job @grayruby
It would be fantastic if SN is able to eventually add further post options that could allow us to essentially run a Sportsbook like freebitcoin entirely P2P
I think it could be possible albeit with potentially trusting the sub founder if a new post could automatically payout all players who stacked to the correct answer.
Basically like doing a poll post like:
  • Seahawks
  • 49ers
  • tie
Say 49ers win. Whoever stacked to 49er option is paid their proportionate amount of earnings of those who stacked for Seattle or tie
2 players bet on the 49ers. player A stacked 500 sats and player ₿ stacked 1000 sats A would receive 33% and ₿ would get 67% of Seattle (and tie) stacked bets
Obviously this would require an oracle mechanism but rather than @grayruby having to manually collect and payout sats for different contests he could instead play the part of oracle (or a group of designees) and indicate the winner or correct answer for any given poll bet
Functionality could extend to a variety of different scenarios and naturally we would create our own “odds” based on the risk / reward potential. Similar concept to @ekzyis with more centralized tradeoffs that rely on the territory manager to be the oracle. Benefits being the potential for not needing even yes / no bets if payout is proportional of winning side splitting losing sides bet based on % originally placed.
Thoughts?
I like the idea but I am not sure operating a sports book is going to be permitted under the new SN terms of service even if it is peer to peer. I think we are ok to do our pools and contests and I am hopeful Delphi markets will give us more functionality to do things like this.
Let’s see how this goes.
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468 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek 6 Dec 2023
It would be fantastic if SN is able to eventually add further post options that could allow us to essentially run a Sportsbook like freebitcoin entirely P2P
someone please make SN meme out of this, k thx bye
ok some more inspiration: @k00b is Cooper (lol, the name even is similar) and the daughter represents stackers on SN asking for all kind of features. @k00b just tells them "anything that can happen, will happen"
something like that but maybe such that it makes more sense haha
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Sorry, my internet cut out so I wasn't able to edit my post in time to also respond to your question at the end:
Thoughts?
Don't have much time to respond in a very productive way, only time to post meme inspiration, lol, sorry but I'll try my best:
Your idea is indeed good. It also sounds very similar to what @Undisciplined and me discussed in the past :)
My initial idea was to create PMs on nostr so I created a draft PR, then I realized maybe SN would be a good idea, and then I realized this is going to be so involved, it makes sense to create a completely separate project out of this - at least for now.
My hope is that delphi.market will give us invaluable lessons about how to create prediction markets that we might integrate into a prediction market post type on SN some day.
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