SATSTRIKE

WHAT IT IS

The hall is a working model of the Bitcoin network, running on live data from the chain. SATSTRIKE hands you a plane and turns it into the arena: take off at the far end, fly around the machine, shoot at whoever else is up there. Everyone shares one sky, so the other pilots are real people. When nobody else is flying, drones take their place, and they carry BOT on the board.

A ROUND IS A BLOCK

A round opens when the network finds a block and closes when it finds the next one. Ten minutes on average, sometimes forty seconds, sometimes half an hour, and nobody up there knows which. You can never sit on a lead.

1. A block lands. Fifteen seconds to take off.
2. Arriving late is fine: you drop straight into the round in progress.
3. A hit on another plane is one point.
4. A crash is minus one point and ten seconds on the ground. Being shot down costs the ten seconds only.
5. The next block ends it. Best score wins, every plane freezes, the winner goes up.

THE CONTROLS

• The mouse flies, the keys hold throttle and roll, space or a click fires.
• Escape gives the mouse back. Every key can be moved, in the setup panel.
• On a phone: throttle left, trigger right, the rest of the screen looks.
• The cockpit carries speed, altitude and a radar that keeps north up.