Crypto Miner

overview

Inspiration

We always thought to ourselves that it would've been to great if we had invested in crypto-currencies early in it's infancy phase. This gave us an idea to use historical cryptocurrency data and create a game where we let a user manage a cryptocurrency portfolio, with mining capabilities

Prizes we are aiming for

*Information overload, Head in the clouds We are putting historical cryptocurrency data into the hands of user to better understand how the market was and how a person running such a venture experienced. Hence we are making a part of world's information more accessible. * Dream about dollars We better educate users about cryptocurrency through our game

What it does

This game works on a timeline controlled by our backend server, which feeds the current time and prices to the client applications. The clients can buy crypto-currency or mine it after buying miners

How we built it

We ReactJS to create the frontend (since we saw a lot of elements can be composed into components) and we used an Express/NodeJS backend which polls cryptocompare to get the data, formats it and sends it over to clients listening to this server. The backend server is hosted on Google App Engine

Challenges we ran into

Deployment, and the general game design: scaling difficulty to correspond to market events, and making sure the game is not too tough or hard, and most importantly its' fun.