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- A new game based on the classic arcade game Space Invaders will allow one person to get a real Bitcoin reward.
- To claim the reward, they must destroy 10,000 bitcoins worth of transactions that reflect actual activity on the blockchain.
- The winner will receive a bonus of 10,000 sessions worth approximately $7.30 at the time of writing.
New free game Bitcoin The game will pay someone a BTC reward if they are skilled at retro arcade games, lucky enough to play while transacting a lot of Bitcoin on the blockchain, or willing to transfer a ton of BTC to help grease the wheels.
In the web game Memball Space Invaders, First spotted by Proteaplayers are challenged to shoot down Bitcoin “whales” that fall across the screen towards their ship. Each whale represents a real transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain, and when popped by the player, adds the amount of BTC from each transaction to the player’s score.
If you fail to destroy the whale, your armor will slowly deteriorate until you lose the game. You can choose to start over for free — or pay 1,000 sessions (about $0.73 in Bitcoin; each session equals 1/100,000,000 BTC) to continue your previous path.
Ultimately, the first player to destroy 10,000 Bitcoins in the game — representing $730 million worth of real Bitcoin transactions — will receive a reward of 10,000 sats, or about $7.30 worth of Bitcoin from The developer is pseudonymous Jasonbl Stack News Shared by the Creator.
However, taking home the reward will require serious skill and luck. Players must shoot down all the whales, as many of them fall at once, making it difficult to survive for long. However, if you are lucky enough, you may play while large Bitcoin transactions are taking place on the blockchain, allowing you to destroy larger whales and accumulate larger amounts of BTC in a short period of time.
But there is another way to win, according to the pseudonymous developer, although it will require the ability to transfer a massive amount of cryptocurrency.
“People’s approach,” the developer said in a post explaining the game, is to “throw yourself a 10,000 Bitcoin transaction and wait for it to show up.”
“Then remove it from the water space,” they explained. “Just make sure you don’t spend too much on fees, otherwise they’ll eat up all your profits.”
Of course, not everyone has $730 million worth of Bitcoin to win the game. As an alternative, the developer cheekily suggested trying “two 5,000 BTC transactions.”
“Just make sure you stream them close enough together that you can shoot them both in the same game,” they added in footnotes.
If you don’t want to risk sending $730 million on the blockchain, you can try doing it like some In the comments of Stacker NewsOne user said they were able to destroy “a measly 70 bitcoins,” and the last 30 bitcoins after only 20 minutes of trying. That won’t cut it.
Anyone who actually completes the initiative will need to share a screenshot of their Game Over screen to unlock the reward. If they make “the effort to fake it,” the game’s author wrote, the reward for sitting down is “worth it.”
Other free games have offered users a risk-free way to accumulate Bitcoin, but often with rewards Not worth the time or effort. Most Bitcoin-backed games only offer the equivalent of pennies in Bitcoin per hour of play, and even then, you’ll have to put up with a lot of video ads to earn that pittance.
Bitcoin is up 1.3% in the past 24 hours, slightly increasing the game’s payout in the process as it trades at around $73,198. The top cryptocurrency assets jumped more than 9.5% last week, but are still 42% below their all-time high of $126,080.
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