What to do with "burnt" gikocoins?

2025-02-08T19:23:00+00:00

Akai, our chair of economic music, is working on a way to address the
inflation issue of gikopoi -- finding a way to consume coins
permanently for a use in a different sort of game that takes into mind
principles learned from systems of "progressive taxation"

From a different angle, it cannot be denied that if coins lost by
gambling ended up in a special wallet, giko.py would probably have more
coins than all other users combined.

If coins lost gambling ended up in a special account, what would be
interesting ways to make use of these coins?

Maybe each week people with a balance of at least X gikocoins could vote
for a user to receive a percent of the "pot", eg 5%

Maybe each week, people could buy lottery tickets for a chance to win
some random percentage of the pot, eg between 3% and 50% -- akin to the
US "powerball" system or something like "keno"

The most creative and fun answer will be the one implemented.

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2025-02-08T19:28:34+00:00

Now that giko.py lives on the Giko server it would also be fairly
trivial to have her generate a webpage that lists users and balances
publicly, eg at https://gikopoi.com/wealth/

I think it's a little fun to only see the 5 wealthiest via !wealth
and other balances having to be requested manually, eg via
"!balance player", but I'm open to all perspectives on this.

It can be argued that a public list of all balances could risk many
non-tripcoded having their wealth stolen by less ethical gikos but I
don't think this is entirely an issue.

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2025-02-08T19:35:23+00:00

options are
1) have any gikocoin spent go on a separate file than the bank.txt
or
2) make an exception where giko.py doesn't appear in rankings.

Now if that money (on the txt file or belonging to giko.py)
is to be used for a pot of gold lotto type system, that would be cool.

Yeah make giko.py run a lottery with that money, perhaps?