Shiny - The most practical, quick and easy-to-use scratch currency

__evelyn

Shinies, or, respectively, a Shiny, is a new currency for Scratch. I mainly target it at shops - the website has basic features, such as a pay-me link (like paypal) where you can just send the link to someone to pay you directly, a simple scratch authentication system, and a basic transaction history log (where you can see where your money goes, like, when you receive and pay money). You can give me some shinies right here: https://shinies.space/pay/__evelyn

V1 Link: https://shinies.space/

V2 Repository: https://github.com/emma144/shinies

Last edited by __evelyn (April 10, 2023 09:14:39)

Knightbot63

Perfect /j
Is it working at all?

__evelyn

Knightbot63 wrote:
Perfect /j
Is it working at all?

Whoops, I just registered the domain. The website will surely be up in like, 15 minutes, probably
Set an alarm pls

WojtekGame

Scratch bans cryptocurrencies, so good luck having this dustbinned!

Knightbot63

WojtekGame wrote:
(#4)
Scratch bans cryptocurrencies, so good luck having this dustbinned!

Then how does blockbit and others keep up without being taken down?

__evelyn

WojtekGame wrote:
Scratch bans cryptocurrencies, so good luck having this dustbinned!

Bruh, this is not a cryptocurrency, this is a digital (or more technically, a “fake”) currency.

WojtekGame

Knightbot63 wrote:
WojtekGame wrote:
(#4)
Scratch bans cryptocurrencies, so good luck having this dustbinned!
Then how does blockbit and others keep up without being taken down?

I might not anwser this because…

*visibile confusion*

…yes.

__evelyn

THE WEBSITE IS UP NOW!

Paddle2See

We do have a policy on point systems and currencies. You should check it out https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/340012/ We also need to make sure that any links you are providing are safe. So there can be no email addresses or social media sites, no chatting, etc.

Caroix

imjack14 wrote:
THE WEBSITE IS UP NOW!

I paid you 25 shinies

Knightbot63

imjack14 wrote:
(#8)
THE WEBSITE IS UP NOW!

My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 111.0.0.0, No Flash version detected
Uhmmm
Still saying there's a typo in the website.

__evelyn

Paddle2See wrote:
We do have a policy on point systems and currencies. You should check it out https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/340012/ We also need to make sure that any links you are providing are safe. So there can be no email addresses or social media sites, no chatting, etc.

Hi, thank you for responding! There is absolutely no way of submitting or writing anything on the site, it is only buttons. Although I am not sure on the part where it says that I can keep track of it on studios, projects, etc. but the shinies are stored on a secure database. Would that be allowed?

Knightbot63 wrote:
imjack14 wrote:
(#8)
THE WEBSITE IS UP NOW!
My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 111.0.0.0, No Flash version detected
Uhmmm
Still saying there's a typo in the website.

Try shift while clicking the refresh button. That should clear your cache! Worked for me :shrug:

Caroix wrote:
imjack14 wrote:
THE WEBSITE IS UP NOW!
I paid you 25 shinies

Yep, I can see it in my transactions history! Thank you so much (:

Last edited by __evelyn (April 6, 2023 18:55:48)

Knightbot63

imjack14 wrote:
(#12)
Try shift while clicking the refresh button. That should clear your cache! Worked for me :shrug:

Might be because i'm in incognito…

Edit, Tried to run without Incognito: No

Last edited by Knightbot63 (April 6, 2023 18:56:03)

Caroix

Since I am the first person to use this site! (Or the second)

Can I get 1,000,000 shinies (and maybe some special reward?)

__evelyn

Caroix wrote:
Since I am the first person to use this site! (Or the second)

Can I get 1,000,000 shinies (and maybe some special reward?)

Hey, no! I am the first person to use the site!

/ just kidding

Sure, you can have 100 shinies.

Knightbot63

Now I can access it!

lolecksdeehaha

This is nice, cool project!
Looking at the Repl.it code, though (I got there through https://shinies.space/__repl ) it looks like you're using a .json file to store the data. I'm pretty sure Repl.it wipes that data when the REPL restarts on its own, so you may want to migrate it to REPLdb or another database.

Also, will there be any other ways to earn shinies? Putting this on GitHub would be awesome.

__evelyn

lolecksdeehaha wrote:
This is nice, cool project!
Looking at the Repl.it code, though (I got there through https://shinies.space/__repl ) it looks like you're using a .json file to store the data. I'm pretty sure Repl.it wipes that data when the REPL restarts on its own, so you may want to migrate it to REPLdb or another database.

Also, will there be any other ways to earn shinies? Putting this on GitHub would be awesome.

Nope, the json file won’t be wiped at all. Repldb is not very reliable from my opinion, though.
I think I can add a daily shiny allowance, like 5 shinies every day. That would be 35 shinies weekly, and almost 140 per month.

Caroix

imjack14 wrote:
lolecksdeehaha wrote:
This is nice, cool project!
Looking at the Repl.it code, though (I got there through https://shinies.space/__repl ) it looks like you're using a .json file to store the data. I'm pretty sure Repl.it wipes that data when the REPL restarts on its own, so you may want to migrate it to REPLdb or another database.

Also, will there be any other ways to earn shinies? Putting this on GitHub would be awesome.
Nope, the json file won’t be wiped at all. Repldb is not very reliable from my opinion, though.
I think I can add a daily shiny allowance, like 5 shinies every day. That would be 35 shinies weekly, and almost 140 per month.

Something like 10 would work, then when you got more users and the average user has more shinies, you could upper it to maybe 20 or 25

Last edited by Caroix (April 6, 2023 19:38:35)

__evelyn

Caroix wrote:
imjack14 wrote:
lolecksdeehaha wrote:
This is nice, cool project!
Looking at the Repl.it code, though (I got there through https://shinies.space/__repl ) it looks like you're using a .json file to store the data. I'm pretty sure Repl.it wipes that data when the REPL restarts on its own, so you may want to migrate it to REPLdb or another database.

Also, will there be any other ways to earn shinies? Putting this on GitHub would be awesome.
Nope, the json file won’t be wiped at all. Repldb is not very reliable from my opinion, though.
I think I can add a daily shiny allowance, like 5 shinies every day. That would be 35 shinies weekly, and almost 140 per month.
Something like 10 would work, then when you got more users and the average user has more shinies, you could upper it to maybe 20 or 25

Shinies inflation is real

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