Bitcoin Geocaching Game Takara Adds Support for Counterparty Tokens
The first ever Bitcoin geocaching iOS app, Takara, has added support for Counterparty assets, allowing users to hunt and plant bitcoin treasures around the world, using IndieSquare’s API. Developed by Christian Moss of MandelDuck, users will have the ability to not only find Counterparty tokens, but also bitcoins when they get close enough to them. It’s similar to PokemonGo; however, the only difference is that instead of Pokemon, users will be collecting bitcoins and various tokens that represent different items such as tickets, coupons, company stocks or loyalty points. Speaking to CCN,....
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Takara, meaning treasure in Japanese is a new bitcoin based geocaching application that allows users to plant bitcoin across the world for other app users to find. The game comes integrated with Breadwallet along with an option to connect other bitcoin wallet applications. Takara can also be a powerful marketing tool. The latest iOS application by MandelDuck, Takara allows its users to go out on an adventurous quest for bitcoin. The map on Takara shows locations where the treasure (read bitcoin) is planted. Those interested in the treasure hunt can find the nearby places where bitcoin is....
Forget Pokémon GO (please) — real-life bitcoin collecting game Takara has added support for Counterparty assets. That means you can now pick up an almost-unlimited array of tokens and digital trinkets as you walk around. Takara, which at this stage is iOS-only, means “treasure” in Japanese. It’s the first demonstration of fungible in-game assets deployed in an augmented reality application. This means that, as well as bitcoin values, players can now collect tokens representing coupons, tickets, loyalty points, company stocks, game items or anything else creators can imagine. Users bring up....
The burgeoning online gaming industry is turning its attention to incorporating digital currencies, including bitcoin, into various platforms to get people excited about blockchain and the use of the digital currency. Two companies taking advantage of the market are MandelDuck, the company behind such games as SaruTobi, Game of Birds and KA-GE and Counterparty, a peer-to-peer financial platform built on the bitcoin blockchain that allows users to create and trade digital tokens, write smart contracts and execute them on the bitcoin blockchain. Developed by Christian Moss, lead developer of....
All of the Force of Will digital cards issued as tokens will be issued through Counterparty. Force of Will is a new blockchain-based trading card game attracting a lot of attention. Similarly to how Spells of Genesis came into the world, the game will be released in several stages. Additionally, a sale of in-game currency will commence later this November. All of the in-game items are to be issued on the blockchain over the Counterparty protocol. Some people may be familiar with Force of Will, as the game has been around for some time. With over 100,000 active players worldwide, it is....
Counterparty, the peer-to-peer platform built on the Bitcoin Blockchain, enters the non-Bitcoin world by teaming up with the physical card game Force of Will as it prepares to launch its first digital game assets. The popular Japanese card game, Force of Will, is launching tokenized game items on Counterparty with the Force of Will Battle Simulator platform is expected to launch mid-September. CoinTelegraph spoke to Trevor Altpeter, the director of the Counterparty Foundation, and Koji Higashi, co-founder of IndieSquare, about the work with Force of Will. Higashi notes: “This is a great....