Anyone itching for a friendly contest?

[boatBurner]

I know we ran one late last year / early this year, but I wasn't able to attend. Wondering if anyone is up to the challenge?

 

[mattseh]

Sure, make it something that could be done in say 4 hours or so. Can be based on the honor system in terms of time taken, but it has to be short enough to not become a massive distraction from people's actual work.

 

[emp]

You gonna run it? Running these things is a pain in the behind

::emp::

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

Sure, I'm in, as long as it's a web app of some kind. No bots or scrapers for me.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

BTW... should we throw some money into a pot? Just a tiny amount, like 0.1 BTC or something, so $50?

 

[Jake232]

Potentially in - depends on project.

 

[mattseh]

BTW... should we throw some money into a pot? Just a tiny amount, like 0.1 BTC or something, so $50?

THat would require a winner, which would require judges, seems like a lot of effort compared to just having bragging rights.

 

[(O_o)]

I'll be the judge.

mattseh WINS .50 BTC

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

THat would require a winner, which would require judges, seems like a lot of effort compared to just having bragging rights.

Yeah, true enough. Ok, scrap the money idea.

 

[mattseh]

Idea: anti-ISP blocking script. If say twitter or TPB is blocked for someone, they can go to myantiblockingscript.com and go to a whitelisted set of blocked sites that your script retreives and caches.

 

[Mahzkrieg]

Idea: Write a bot that accumulates a txt file of ip addresses of bitcoin nodes in the network by asking nodes for the nodes they know about.

Bonus 1: expire ip address that you haven't heard about in 48 hours

Bonus 2: within that moving window, track how many nodes have mentioned each ip address to bubble up the node hubs

Also, I think making it into a 'contest' is too heavy. I'd rather just circlejerk. It's prob hard enough to find a prompt that we all actually want to do.

 

[mattseh]

Idea: Write a bot that accumulates a txt file of ip addresses of bitcoin nodes in the network by asking nodes for the nodes they know about.

Bonus 1: expire ip address that you haven't heard about in 48 hours

Bonus 2: within that moving window, track how many nodes have mentioned each ip address to bubble up the node hubs

Also, I think making it into a 'contest' is too heavy. I'd rather just circlejerk. It's prob hard enough to find a prompt that we all actually want to do.

This is awesome.

 

[Kiopa_Matt]

I'll sit out if we're doing the bitcoin one, as that's a little unfair, since I'm already done. And not only for the version and addr messages, but for the rest of the them too. I'm probably going to sit out regardless, so doesn't matter anyway. Little too busy for my own good with client work right now.

Give people at least a week for this one, eh? Can't expect people who are brand new to the bitcoin protocol to have that banged out within half a day. There's a good amount of pissing around to get that working properly.