I have to take this back. It appears that Satlantis was essentially just a Bitcoin integrated pay-to-win server.
As I understand it, players were rewarded with sats by a random lottery every 10 minutes, and their chances of winning were based on how much "hashrate" they were running from their in game "ASICs". ASICs that had to be purchased from the server or other players.
Sure, even someone with just one ASIC had a CHANCE of winning the lottery, but the reality is that those who paid more Bitcoin into the system to be able to run more ASICs would win more often. The very definition of pay-to-win.
Is that how mining Bitcoin works in the real world? Yes. Those who can buy more ASICs are more likely to find a block and receive the block reward. That's just a fundamental reality for the vast majority of industries. The more money you have to put in, the more money you are likely to make, so long as you are wise about what you do with it.
However, in gaming, which most people do in their free time, pay-to-win is generally frowned upon.
Most people don't want to play a game where other players are given an advantage over them simply because those other players have more money to throw around. When the main point of the server was to win sats, it should have been based on gameplay, not the money you have to put into buying in-game advantage.
Now, maybe I have entirely misunderstood what Satlantis was, and how people could increase their chances of winning the lottery, but it sure looks on the surface like it was primarily driven by how much you paid in.
