Guide to Mining Reinvests

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About Autoplay

As explained on the Mechanics page, one of the key components of this game is the "autoplay" functionality. Players can enable an automatic upgrading option at any time which causes new giftboxes to be purchased for them anytime their current giftboxes contain enough value to do so:

But how is autoplay achieved behind the scenes?

About Decentralized Reinvest Mining

Players can run a special software they build to get rewarded with bonuses as they execute automatic upgrade actions on behalf of other players:

In this guide, we'll look at the technical details you'll need to build your own miner!

Can anyone build a miner? or do I need to be a developer?

To develop your own miner requires basic coding knowledge or the ability to learn:

If you are not familiar with coding and JavaScript, it would currently be very difficult to participate as a miner.

❗ Warning: Note that running code from someone you don't know in the crypto space is really dangerous. Don't try to use other people's code that you have not verified yourself or that has been verified by someone you trust.

At a later time, we may provide a safe open-source miner which would allow mining to be more widely accessible. For now, you will need to be able to develop your own miner as described below.

What does a mining software do?

In summary, the mining software will scan for accounts on Just.game that have reached the reinvestment threshold, and then execute that reinvest on their behalf, in order to take that 1% premium for every successfully reinvested account.

Developing our First Reinvest Miner

Let's take a look at all the pieces you'll need to develop your own miner!

Interacting with the Smart Contract

In order to develop our miner, first let's note that we will primarily be interacting with the Just.game TRON smart contract on the mainnet (address: TWjkoz18Y48SgWoxEeGG11ezCCzee8wo1A)

You will be interacting with the smart contract using a TRON client such as TronWeb. Here's the Official API Docs. You can see a sample of TronWeb on this sample app.

To interact with the smart contract, you'll need a few helpful resources for reference:

How do we know if a user can be reinvested by the miner? Each active account holds a boolean automaticallyUpgrade. Whenever this is set to true, you can reinvest on their behalf at any time, the only real condition here is that the reinvestment action would result in one "box" (currently that means they should hold about 0.20$ approximately in dividends). You can check if this the case by observing their outstanding dividend balance.

So how do we reinvest on a user's behalf? The actual reinvestment mechanism consists of a singular solidity function you need to invoke upgradeTickets, taking one parameter: the address of the user you're reinvesting for. As long as this specified user has enough dividends to receive 1 whole box ("ticket") on reinvesting (about 0.20$) - you will be credited 1% of that reinvest.

Basic Strategy Definition

One challenge is that even though you can see how many dividends there are queued in balance for each user, there's no on-chain way to "automatically" see when the threshold of dividends of a user is reached. Your bot will need to manually track, one way or the other, when the best time to fire off the reinvestment function is per user.

The easiest way to do this is to cache a list of every user who has the autoplay feature enabled, and constantly do HTTP/RPC calls to the chain to check their outstanding dividends and checking if it's worthy to fire an auto-reinvest yet. This is, of course, very simple but also highly inefficient and if you don't run a private node yourself, you will most likely crash whichever public node you are connected to due to the high volume of HTTP/RPC calls you will be doing.

To recap our miner's basic directives in this strategy:

Leveling Up Our Strategy

Constantly doing HTTP/RPC calls to the chain to check every user's outstanding dividends when a purchase happens is highly inefficient and if you don't run a private node yourself, you will most likely crash whichever public node you are connected to due to the high number of calls.

In order to make our miner more efficient, we might want want to cache a snapshot of the list of every that have autoplay boolean enabled, storing their current outstanding dividends AND their total tokens on-disk. Your bot then listens for new blocks, filtering all JUST.GAME transactions. Whenever there's a block with one or multiple buys/reinvests, your bot simulates the new dividend balances in-memory for each of these stored users and consider if it's worthy to fire the auto-reinvest.

This way you effectively mirror the blockchain without doing any expensive calls, or waiting for things to compute. More efficiency, but also more difficult to pull off without screwing up. Also don't forget to listen for new autoplay enables/disables.

There's many possible strategies layers here. For example, you can take it a step further by simulating the cascading effect your reinvest will have on other accounts and line up a reinvestment for them as well. And so forth.

To recap our advanced miner's upgraded functionality in this case:

(Note that this may be very difficult in practice due to missing data, but feel free to explore and see what works, some form of caching is better than none)

Calculating a Player's Dividends

In pseudocode, here is how you would calculate a player's total royalties available for reinvesting:

roundRoyalties = dividendsOf(currentRound, activeAccount);
totalRoyalties = Players[activeAccount].squadEarnings +
  Players[activeAccount].dividendEarnings +
  Players[activeAccount].winnerEarnings +
  roundRoyalties;

In other words, to calculate if a player can be reinvested, you need to take into account all of these different factors leveraging info in both playerMetadataOf and Players

The Glitch

Due to the glitches, entry price for boxes get continuously cheaper as time goes on. They cascade down by 25% of the base price for every time "the bomb" triggers. Refer to the following methods:

Rounds[currentRoundNumber()].bombFuseCounter -> total times bomb has triggered
function bombTriggerThreshold(uint256 _fuseCounter) -> static return, total amount of time that will elapse before a bomb triggers, this is connected with the main game timer in code itself but simply returns a flat value for reference.
function toTickets(uint256 _incomingFunds) -> calculate how many tickets you get, factors in the bombFuseCounter.

Testing Your Miner

Feel free to test your new miner directly on mainnet, and see if you can start reinvesting transactions! Good luck and happy mining!

Bonus Miner Tips

Loading Player Cache

When starting out fresh and without a cache of current players, you would have to iterate through all of the players in the active round for your starting point. I'd recommend using your own node for this on the mainnet, as it will be a taxing.

Inputting String into Function on TronWeb

The correct way to input bytes32 for a function using tronweb is:

tronWeb.fromAscii('wewlad').padEnd(66, '0')

Failed Reinvests

If you fail to reinvest an account, you pay the price of your fee limit no matter what. For example, suppose your fee limit is 2,000,000, you will lose 2 TRX if it fails for any reason.