I was interested in their product and signed up to their alpha release on the STOX Website. If you are interested in prediction markets, probability, use cases for blockchain you should give it a whirl. Their interface is clean, responsive, fast and simple. Exactly what the doctor ordered! The @steemsports application was simple and nice to use too, it's a shame it never took off. In contrast the last time I used Augur some months ago, it wasn't immediately obvious what I had to do but I found my way around eventually. Also the interface seemed a bit slow, maybe all of that has changed now.
Look at the simple design, no wonder Google won the search provider wars. They knew whats up, and so do STOX.
After getting an invite by email, sign up with your email address and password
You are given 1000 demo STX tokens to try out, click on an event that you would like to predict. I'm going to choose a world cup winner in 2018, that's 10 months away and I rarely follow football.
Looks like Germany is popular, I will place a 1 STOX amount on them :)
Now I need to find out how to place my prediction, shall I press the predict button????
Child's play, just got to wait 10 months for that outcome. Doesn't look like it's possible to change your prediction once it's submitted.
Now I have predictions for all available events, let the demo STX roll in
Taken from their about us page
Building the Blockchain Prediction Market
Stox is an open source, Bancor based prediction market platform.
Using the wisdom of the crowd, every day people will be able to predict and trade the outcome of events in almost any imaginable category: Finance, sports, politics and even the weather.
Stox is designed to accommodate and be intuitive for mainstream audiences.
Powering Stox will be the STX digital token, the primary form for fees, collaterals, and the currency for investment in event outcomes.
Stox will feature invest.com as its debut provider and operator.
Stox incentivizes other industry leaders with existing customer bases, like invest.com, to join the Stox network and drive traffic to the network.
They also have big names promoting them and are backed by http://www.invest.com. Their ICO raised over $30 million in a day.
FOMO or not, this platform and app will show what others are predicting rather than having massaged / censored predictions you might see on that dusty screen by the fireplace (: