A quirky bitcoin (BTC)-themed Space Invaders clone is promising a bounty of 10,000 Satoshis (SATs), worth $7, to whoever can score 10,000 points. The only catch is that it might take you over an hour — unless you’re willing to move $726 million in BTC.
The game, called Mempool Space Invaders, was released by Stacker News user @jasonb this week. Like Space Invaders, you play as a ship moving left to right shooting “invaders” before they reach the bottom of the screen.
In this version, each surviving invader chips off a percentage of your shield until you’re dead. As for the crypto element, each invader represents a transaction on the blockchain’s mempoool that tallies towards your points.
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MYSTERY SOLVED!!!
The only people I had shared this with outside of stacker news was a Bitcoin meetup telegram group for one of the cities here in Ohio. I’m constantly shilling stacker news to them to little avail and was like, “wow, this meetup group is way more into old school arcade games than I would have guessed.” This article as an explanation makes more sense.
Ultra big kudos to the author for mentioning the lightning payment option, given it’s a crypto magazine and I always get the impression those things are downplaying Bitcoin as money.
Very cool publicity for @jasonb and SN
Legend.
Heck yeah! SN in the news!
Also, kudos to @jasonb for making a really killer game.