'Bit-tendo' prototype offers Bitcoin retro games for bars, conferences

Play to Earn retro games with Bitcoin payouts whitethorn soon beryllium making their mode to a bar, conference, oregon meetup adjacent you, according to a Feb. 12 Twitter station by Zebedee laminitis Christian Moss. The bundle is tentatively called “Bit-tendo.”

— Christian Moss (@MandelDuck) February 12, 2023

The Twitter station includes a video of idiosyncratic playing Super Mario Bros. 3 connected a small, aged schoolhouse conduit television. The TV displays a QR codification astatine startup, and asks for a Bitcoin payment. Only erstwhile the outgo is sent does the crippled commencement running.

During gameplay, a “Sats” antagonistic is displayed that seemingly counts the fig of Sats the subordinate has won arsenic a reward truthful acold — “Sats” are Bitcoin’s smallest divisible portion of 0.00000001BTC each. The show besides shows a timer that counts down from 90 seconds to zero, and erstwhile the timer goes to zero, the crippled ends and a caller QR codification is displayed. A connection astatine the bottommost and apical of the representation  implies that the subordinate tin usage the QR codification to retreat their Sats.

In the post, Moss said that the bundle volition yet “be a escaped retro crippled bitcoin infuser for bars, conferences, conscionable ups etc.”

Cointelegraph reached retired to Christian Moss for an mentation of however the bundle works. In response, helium told america that it runs connected a PC oregon different instrumentality that is capable to judge a video feed. The crippled itself is produced by a existent Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) console, but the video is altered en way to amusement the Sats antagonistic and timer. The bundle tracks movements successful the video provender to find if the subordinate has collected a coin and updates the Sat antagonistic each clip a coin is collected.

In bid to money the payout wallet, Moss said that the barroom oregon nine needs to motion up for a custodial wallet with Zebedee oregon LNBits. The wallet is connected to the Lightning Network successful bid to alteration debased transaction fees and accelerated payments.

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The Zebedee app is disposable connected the Google Play and Apple app stores. Screenshots uncover that it has a “top up” (deposit) and “cash out” (withdrawal) relation that tin beryllium accessed aft the idiosyncratic completes a Know Your Customer (KYC) process.

Moss besides explained however helium came up with the thought for “Bit-tendo.” He said that helium tried to get radical funny successful Bitcoin Play to Earn games astatine Bitcoin conferences, but recovered that participants preferred to play games they already cognize alternatively than “in house” designed games. Moss said helium hopes to marque the bundle enactment with immoderate game, not conscionable Super Mario Bros. 3:

“I privation to besides fto the idiosyncratic beryllium capable to bid the bundle to admit events successful immoderate crippled they whitethorn person yet making it crippled agnostic.”

In his Tweet showing disconnected the software, Moss stated that helium would integrate Sonic: The Hedgehog 2 with it if the station got 200 retweets, which it has since received.

Christian Moss has been an innovator successful the blockchain gaming abstraction since its inception. In 2014, helium created Sarutobi, a crippled that allowed players to cod Bitcoin by controlling a monkey that swung crossed a jungle landscape. Because it predated the merchandise of EverdreamSoft’s Spells of Genesis beta by astir 1 year, Moss' Sarutobi is sometimes considered to person been the archetypal blockchain crippled ever.