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Fully Anticipated Queries
Q: Is it even possible to lose?
A: Yes, if the big bank can somehow take out all 98 nodes before you find the central point of failure, then the bank wins.
Q: Do you want banks to fail?
A: Heavens no! That always means significant human suffering, whether or not they get a bailout. However, this simulation demonstrates the difference between the safety provided by a bank or any other centralized institution (like a crypto exchange or the government) and a decentralized network like Bitcoin.
Q: Got any other games?
A: Yeah, check out National Debt Snake.
Q: Doesn't it actually only take a 51% attack to compromise the Bitcoin network?
A: Sure, but more nodes (actually miners in the case of a 51% attack) are going to come back online in the event of a scenario like this. It would take a tremendous amount of unknown resources and energy to attempt to compromise what is now the most secure network the world has ever known. But yeah, the game is obviously meant to be satire. It's not a perfect analogy.
Q: Did you make this from scratch?
Q: Nope! The computer AI was created by Bill Mei. Here is the original MIT license. I ripped this right off of his GitHub, so don't blame the guy for any of the idealogy you might not like here.