BitQuest - a Minecraft Videogame with Bitcoin Economy
BitQuest is a Minecraft server where you can find and use Bitcoin within the game. This ongoing project will create a public Minecraft server with a Bitcoin-denominated trading system and unique MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) features. The economy in BitQuest is based on the Emerald element. You can mine it or exchange it for other elements, just like currency. You can buy food, armor or even enchanted weapons, it's up to you. Each Emerald is worth 1 BIT [one millionth Bitcoin]. To access your Bits you first go to the BANK at spawn and deposit your Emeralds into....
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Readers may remember BitQuest, as covered here on CCN. The Minecraft server uses Bitcoin for its economic component, and the results are fantastic efforts from those wishing to earn Bitcoin. They even had an architecture contest recently. A group of players recently decided to take the market component of the Minecraft server to a new level by creating a market that would be supply and demand responsive. Players were able to purchase in-game currency using bitcoins and then buy blocks. Each in-game emerald is worth a bit, or a millionth of a Bitcoin. Some blocks are more valuable than....