Governments SHOULD be afraid of their people. That is the only dynamic capable of keeping tyranny in check.
Exactly. I mean, yes, Bitcoin fixes a lot of things. That doesn't mean pay-to-win stops being a shit business model just because you do it with sats.
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It appears that Satlantis has relaunched, but it's still the same old pay-to-win scheme.
You can increase your chances of winning their lottery by **paying** for more "ASICs", which you have to fuel with "joules" from playing either Counter Strike 2, or Dead By Daylight Mobile.
Oh, and you can earn twice as many joules as other players by, you guessed it, paying for their Premium Battlepass.
Satlantis is the definition of pay-to-win.
Does Highlighter.com not support nested bulleted lists? Markdown normally allows most things to be nested/indented by using four spaces, but Highlighter just displays it without the indent.
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Replying to https://twitter.com/stephanlivera/status/1710404031561302252:
@stephanlivera He states that lack of elasticity is "impractical", and that "flexibility is essential," but why? What are his arguments to support those assertions?
Sadly, this mentality is transferring over to Bitcoin integrated games that shape their business model around their players paying sats to give themselves advantage over other players.
Loved this!
The fallacy that "everyone will just hoard their money and never buy anything" drives me nuts.
People don't need to be incentivized to spend their money by making it buy them less over time. They are plenty incentivized to buy things, because they WANT things. TVs get less expensive every year, but we still buy them rather than holding out for them to get cheaper, because we have a desire to own the new hotness.
It's the same reason why people will buy the next-gen game console immediately when it's released in November for the holiday shopping season, even though they know it will be cheaper after Christmas.
No, we NEED to be incentivized to save, because THAT is the behavior that doesn't come naturally to us. We want to consume, consume, consume, and must have some carrot dangled in front of us to lead us to behave differently.
Very sad to hear that nostr:npub18qujwjh7h8422xpwm02z9hpkvnzc69aw9vcfmxart0xce6ulla4syqun6shas to leave the Minecraft platform due to Mojang's disapproval of their play-to-earn model.
I hope they are able to find an alternative platform that will work for them and their players.
We need MORE games that integrate Lightning, not less.
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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.
Replying to https://twitter.com/sovtoshi/status/1709446112476799009:
@sovtoshi Every article I see from a Bitcoin focused publication has always been positive toward this server that was transparently pay-to-win. Similarly negative toward them getting shut down for it. Can't speak to them being maxis or not.
@sovtoshi Takeaway is, not everything that incorporates Bitcoin is good. Gotta use some critical thinking, folks.
Replying to https://twitter.com/sovtoshi/status/1709446112476799009:
@sovtoshi Every article I see from a Bitcoin focused publication has always been positive toward this server that was transparently pay-to-win. Similarly negative toward them getting shut down for it. Can't speak to them being maxis or not.
The Bitcoin community may be the only community I know of that actually considered a pay-to-win Minecraft server to be a good thing and lamented when it got shut down.
Replying to https://twitter.com/sovtoshi/status/1709300506135511460:
@sovtoshi @wasrichnowbroke Not it! I didn't have anything that wild.
I'd say you should probably always assume there is a nut grabber watching and waiting.
The underground city of Dwemerith is coming along slowly but surely. There's plenty of room at the Inn for new folks to come to the city. Only 5 sats a day for rent.
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How does that even work, manually processing withdrawals on Lightning?
Either the user has the authority to withdraw out of their wallet, or they don't, right?
Replying to https://twitter.com/writingbree/status/1706423507691942380:
@writingbree @sovtoshi It'll get spicy when we have some rivalries between nations.