Minecraft Players Can Win Bitcoin on New Treasure Hunt Server

A brand new Minecraft server permits gamers within the blocky universe to compete towards each other to seek out hidden treasure and obtain a bitcoin reward.

Often known as SatoshiQuest, the problem is to seek out the hidden loot inside “huge Minecraft landscapes.” Customers pay $1 in bitcoin for an in-game life. Entry charges are collected and most will go in direction of a selected treasure pockets tackle, which is awarded to the participant who finds the loot first.

So as to take part, customers arrange their very own in-game pockets they’ll use to pay for lives and obtain their winnings. Ought to they want, they’ll additionally join an exterior pockets to the Minecraft sport server.

Greater than 180 million copies of Minecraft have been offered since late 2019, making it the one best-selling online game in historical past. It permits customers to create their very own worlds on their very own servers. The sport has already featured bitcoin, with the BitQuest and PlayMC servers, from 2014 and 2015 respectively, which each built-in the unique cryptocurrency to check and educate customers about digital currencies.

The primary spherical of SatoshiQuest started on Jan. 26 and the sport resets as soon as treasure has been discovered. The server checks the bitcoin spot worth each 15 minutes, routinely updating the participation payment to maintain it at $1.

The venture is open supply, with the code out there on GitHub.

Ninety % of complete sport charges go in direction of the treasury tackle, with the remaining 10 % going in direction of developer prices. After discovering the treasure, winners obtain 85 % of the stability, whereas the remaining 5 % is stored the pockets till the subsequent spherical. The reward is just paid out if the treasury pockets stability exceeds the transaction payment.

The Minecraft contest comes after one other extra real-world bitcoin treasure hunt was launched final April. Known as Satoshi’s Treasure, the sport’s builders hid the keys to $1 million-worth of bitcoin throughout the globe.

The keys to the bitcoin pockets containing the prize have been divided into 1,000 fragments, requiring a minimal of 400 key fragments to entry and switch the funds. Gamers are capable of acquire and unravel clues any method they need, and might even promote leads.