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Paul West
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Creator of Bitcoin Miner. We share revenue with players by sending you satoshis.

This weekend’s Bitcoin Miner event is now live! 🚀

My last post doesn’t contain the image I was uploading. The loading bar did appear to be at 100% when I hit post so perhaps something else went wrong.

UX Suggestion: If uploading an image, don’t allow me post the note until the image is ready to go with it. nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

Showing our upcoming bitcoin game at Gamescom this week. Loving the reactions

Wow, this was a year ago.

Since this comment I got burned by a few P&E games and like them less, but I stilll stand by the definitions. 😁 #rewardedgames

TIL threads on nostr don’t work the same as Twitter. 😁

5. 🔐 Next up, security. Giving away value (bitcoin) attracts bad actors (hackers/exploiters). This means an exploit that is usually harmless (complete the game faster/high leaderboard score) can turn into a costly exposure. When paired with the anonymity blockchains introduce, this means a player could spin up multiple accounts to exploit the system. We have to work a lot harder than ever before to protect the game and our players.

4. ♻️ Player Rewards. Despite earning the majority of our revenue from Tier 1 markets, our players can collect the same amount of bitcoin no matter where they are in the world. We think this is a cool thing and has proven sustainable so plan to continue this in our upcoming games

3. 🎮 It’s clear that “Play to Earn” projects have burned market perception of a value creation play model. The new definition I think fits better is Rewarded Play so will be using this going forward. (Credit goes to Mark @ BearHugGames for bringing this term to light)

2. 👑 Discord is king. We focused on Discord from day one and have 100,000 players there. We built our systems around it with custom bots, events, plus 90% of our player support runs through it. Infact, 10% of players who play Bitcoin Miner, join our Discord…

1. 🌎 It’s global. From the 1M downloads, our top 5 markets by active players are US, GB, DE, BR, PH. This often surprises people as it seems most “web3 games” are played almost entirely in emerging markets.

Now we’ve hit 1M+ players, here’s my top 6 learnings from running the world’s biggest bitcoin game… 🧵

#[0]​ super curious if you’ve played Bitcoin Miner & earned any satoshi’s yet? Team morale would go through the roof if they knew that you tried it! https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bitcoin-miner-idle-tycoon/id1413770650