SATSTRIKE
A dogfight inside the Bitcoin machine. Free, nothing to install, and a round lasts one real block.
PLAY SATSTRIKEWHAT 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.
- A block lands. Fifteen seconds to take off.
- Arriving late is fine: you drop straight into the round in progress.
- A hit on another plane is one point.
- A crash is minus one point and ten seconds on the ground. Being shot down costs the ten seconds only.
- 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.
IT IS FREE
Nothing to buy, no account, no advantage on sale. A reward round in satoshis is being prepared with Lightning partners and announced in the hall as SATSTRIKE WORLD CUP. Until then there is no prize pool and nothing is paid out.
QUESTIONS
Do I need to own any bitcoin to play?
No. The game never touches a wallet, never asks for an address, and there is nothing to connect. It reads the public Bitcoin network exactly the way this page does, and that is the whole of its relationship with your money.
Do I need an account or anything installed?
Neither. It runs in the browser tab you are reading this in, on the same page as the 3D model of the network. Nothing to download, nobody to sign up with, no email asked.
How long does one round last?
One block. Ten minutes on average, sometimes forty seconds, sometimes half an hour, and nobody knows which in advance: that is why a lead is never safe.
Can I play on a phone?
Yes, and it is the same sky: a phone and a computer share one round and the same other pilots. Two thumbs fly the plane, and the rest of the screen aims.
THE PARTS NEXT TO IT
- MININGthe race that ends your round, and pays whoever wins it
- MEMPOOLthe payments that were waiting to get into the block you just played
- BLOCKCHAINthe block your round became, once it was sealed and passed around