In short
- A new game based on the arcade classic Space Invaders allows one person to earn a real Bitcoin prize.
- To receive the reward, they must spend 10,000 BTC that reflect real-time transactions on the blockchain.
- The winner will receive a 10,000 sats bounty, worth about $7.30 at the time of writing.
A new free game Bitcoin The game will pay someone good BTC if they are good at school arcade games, enough opportunity to play when a lot of Bitcoin is transaked on the blockchain, or ready to move a ton of BTC to help fuel the wheels.
In online games Mempool Space Invaders, first seen by Proteaplayers are challenged to shoot Bitcoin “whales” that fall through the window to their train. Each whale represents a real transaction on the Bitcoin blockchain, and when shot by a player, adds the amount of BTC from each transaction to the player’s score.
Fail to destroy the whale and your shields will be slowly destroyed until you lose the game. You can choose to restart for free—or pay 1,000 sats (roughly $0.73 worth of Bitcoin; each is worth 1/100,000,000 BTC) to continue your previous run.
In the end, the first player to spend 10,000 BTC in the game—representing some $730 million worth of real-time Bitcoin transactions—will receive a maximum of 10,000 sats, or $7.30 in BTC from. creator of the pseudonym Jasonbfor a Stacker news post from the Creator.
Taking home those goodies takes skill and luck. Players must shoot all the whales, many of which fall at the same time, which makes it difficult to survive for a long time. If you’re lucky, you can play while major Bitcoin changes are happening on the blockchain, which allows you to destroy the big whales and save a lot of BTC for a short period of time.
But there is another way to win, according to the pseudonymous developer – even if it requires moving a lot of cryptocurrencies.
“The way people,” said the developer in a post describing the game, is “to throw yourself 10,000 Bitcoin and wait for it to appear.”
“Then blow him up in water—er—space,” they explained. “Make sure you don’t overspend, or you’ll eat all your winnings.”
Of course, not everyone has $730 million in Bitcoin lying around to win the game. Instead, the developer decided to test “two 5,000 Bitcoin transactions.”
“Just make sure they’re aired close enough so you can shoot them both in one shot,” added the footnote.
If you don’t want to risk sending $730 million on the blockchain, you can try playing it like others. in Stacker News commentswhere one user said he was able to spend “70 paltry BTC,” and another 30 BTC after 20 minutes of testing. That won’t cut it.
Everyone who completes the task must share a picture of their “game play” to unlock the goodies. If they put in “fake tests,” the sats reward is “deserved,” the game’s author wrote.
Some free games offer users a risk-free way to save BTC, but often rewards It does not require time or effort. Most Bitcoin-supported games only pay BTC for every hour of play, and even then, you have to put up with video ads to earn that money.
Bitcoin is up 1.3% over the past 24 hours, adding a bit to the game’s gains as it trades around $73,198. The top crypto asset jumped more than 9.5% last week, but still sits 42% below its all-time high of $126,080.
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