Bitcoin Mining Game ‘Miner Wars’ Expands With New Features

Garnering greater than 165,000 lively gamers, GoMining says it has paid out greater than 144 BTC—or over $13 million in rewards at immediately’s worth—since Miner Wars’ September launch.

“Positioned on the intersection of digital mining and GameFi, Miner Wars has discovered a welcoming area of interest with a loyal and steady viewers,” stated GoMining CEO Mark Zalan in a press release. He stated that the recent options will carry a few “new degree of traction and consumer engagement.”

The sport offers people entry to GoMining’s actual Bitcoin mining infrastructure by way of cross-chain “miner” NFTs, which correspond to an actual share of computational assets from the agency’s mining facilities. Digital miners have been issued on Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and The Open Community (TON) and might be traded on the GoMining market or third-party platforms like Magic Eden.

Those that buy miner NFTs primarily be a part of a mining pool, and earn proportional rewards when the pool mines a Bitcoin block. Customers can then improve their NFTs, probably bettering their possibilities at successful Bitcoin rewards within the course of.

The digital miner NFTs are additionally used to affix Miner Wars, which provides productiveness boosts and multipliers whereas providing larger rewards than the same old compensation from mining. The sport hosts round 120-150 rounds per day, providing round 1 Bitcoin in prizes alongside rewards of GOMINING, the corporate’s Ethereum-based token.

When becoming a member of the sport, customers commit the computational energy of their miner NFTs—which is denominated in terahashes—to compete in opposition to different gamers, becoming a member of clans, or teams of different gamers within the course of.

As of immediately’s updates, these clans at the moment are being grouped into leagues to extend competitiveness with weekly promotions and demotions primarily based on efficiency. Clans could also be positioned in lower-level leagues just like the Dune League, which is designed for newer gamers, or pushed as much as the Odyssey League—which gives larger prizes, however is meant for extra skilled and “elite” Miner Wars gamers.

The agency can also be including welcome packs that include free boosts to assist customers “turn out to be conversant in the UI and mechanics of Miner Wars,” GoMining Content material Advertising Supervisor Laila Effiong instructed Decrypt.

Whereas mining, or the method of securing and verifying blocks on Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain, is a technically complicated and energy-intensive course of, GoMining goals to simplify it and educate extra crypto customers. The agency claims greater than 3.5 million customers worldwide, with its knowledge facilities boasting 7.5 million terahashes of computational energy.

“Mining is complicated, and we will’t understate that,” stated Effiong, noting the problem of sustaining the effectivity of GoMining’s international mining operations. “However for the GoMining finish customers, they need not really feel any of that burden.”

Edited by Andrew Hayward