Gaming on the Blockchain: the Huntercoin Saga
Gaming on the Blockchain is a series of reviews and previews of video games which utilize blockchain technology. This installment covers Huntercoin, the first and only decentralized autonomous video game. The entire game world is stored on the Huntercoin blockchain, and players move by issuing transactions to compete for newly-minted HUC coins. The Gaming on the Blockchain series has covered nearly every major development in its namesake niche, and many people have caught onto the opportunity cryptography represents for the gaming industry. The Munne Project appears to have been a cheap....
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Huntercoin Resources. Bitcointalk thread. Huntercoin.info. Huntercoin Logo. What Is Huntercoin? Huntercoin is a new altcoin that released at the beginning of February to little fanfare. Huntercoin is based off of Namecoin and utilized a dual proof-of-work algorithm to process Huntercoin transactions with both SHA and Scrypt devices. Huntercoin is meant to be merged mined with other altcoins and should be immune to fluctuations in hardware efficiency. That isn't even the most interesting part about Huntercoin mining. Huntercoin blocks are 1 minute long, and every block releases 10....
Huntercoin was the first blockchain-based video game, and is still the only to be completely decentralized. Unfortunately, development crawled nearly to a halt for a couple years after the death of lead developer Mikhail Sindeyev, causing a cataclysmic price crash. Lately it's been recovering, however, and after some new additions to the team, they've released multiple major updates. These include a hardfork to update the gameplay as well as a new client with blockchain pruning and HD wallets. Blockchain gaming has been in the spotlight lately; video games using the technology have....
There were a number of (possibly apocryphal) stories during World of Warcraft’s heyday about Korean teenagers and American prisoners hunched over computers 24-7, building up and selling off video game characters for real cash. Huntercoin could potentially be that on steroids. First, understand that the term Huntercoin encompasses an altcoin (HUC), a digital wallet and a gaming client. The game is a massive multiplayer online game, like WoW, but gameplay is incentivized by cryptocurrency rewards, i.e. players win Huntercoins. Developers argue gameplay is a fairer system for cryptocurrency....
As blockchain technology weaves golden threads into exciting new use cases, promising solutions like cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and DeFi are continuously gaining more attention, cementing themselves as significant contributors to overall ecosystem growth. Amidst this growing marketplace, blockchain gaming is another promising sector that has proven its potential. Because blockchain games facilitate the play-to-earn (P2E) model, there has been a surge in demand for such games, partly driven by the economic crises due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Per data from the BGA Blockchain Game Report, more....
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