Besides their first real-life Bitcoin get-together in over a year, 12,000 bitcoiners attending the Bitcoin 2021 Conference in Miami this week can look forward to a weekend filled with games and a prize pool of 1 bitcoin, worth just under $39,000 at press time.
Hosted by gaming startup ZEBEDEE, which has made a name for itself in the wider Bitcoin space for its work on driving the adoption of Bitcoin in gaming, the MintGox Esports Arena is set to become the stage for various Bitcoin games on Jun
When Jack Everitt got ready to attend the Lightning Conference, his first ever Bitcoin conference, in October of 2019, he didn't want to show up empty-handed. In hopes of using it as an ice breaker to get to know like-minded HODLers, he put together a demo for a Bitcoin game and took it to the event in Berlin—and indeed, his game was met with excitement by other attendees, inspiring him to take his prototype to the next level and make it available for everyone to play.
A little over a year late
While the gaming industry is highly competitive for all game developers, those looking to integrate Bitcoin into their games face an additional challenge: besides the need to develop a go-to-market strategy to capture the right audience, Bitcoin game developers often find themselves seeking ways to integrate Bitcoin that offer minimal disruption and require little effort from players who may not be familiar with Bitcoin.
With its latest project, Bitcoin-focused game development studio ZEBEDEE h
Worldwide, more than 75 million gamers have chosen Call of Duty: Warzone, a free-to-play battle royale game that’s part of the third-highest-grossing video game franchise in the world. In groups of up to 150 users at a time, players combat each other in best first-person shooter fashion, either privately or professionally in global esports tournaments.
Eager to tap into the massive Call of Duty universe is HangarSix, a platform that plans to claim some of Call of Duty’s competitive gamers by ho
It’s not hard to come to the conclusion that Bitcoin and gaming are a match made in heaven: digital money meets digital reality, with the native currency of the internet potentially enabling open virtual economies that transcend single game universes and link to the gigantic monetary cosmos that is the Bitcoin network.
And the idea offers a welcome break from the usual narrative surrounding Bitcoin’s disruption of legacy financial markets, which–while very much its core value proposition—might
As Bitcoin experiences rapidly increasing institutional interest, Bitcoin companies may soon find themselves wooed by legacy finance and technology companies, anticipates Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz.
In an interview with Bloomberg Technology on Friday, Novogratz predicted that within a year's time, major credit card companies such as VISA, MasterCard, and American Express would follow into PayPal's footsteps and launch offerings for merchants to transact in stablecoins and cryptocurrencie
