We are currently at the edge of some pretty cool innovations when it comes to Bitcoin and gaming right now. In the App Store, Thndr Games is putting together some pretty neat games that allow you to collect tickets for a raffle every hour to win sums of Bitcoin. This is pretty cool, and I have been able to transfer the sats out of the games with ease of course when playing these games it didn't feel like work.

sMile also has a bunch of great games, but with these when you hit certain milestones (like competing 10 levels) you receive a lump sum payment of satoshis. There are ads with these games, and I'm sure these games are the ones fronting the tiered satoshi rewards - as it is likely a percentage of people who play the game will remove ads or buy extra gems/lives/etc.

There are also more than half a dozen casinos that accept bitcoin as well. I think this will be commonplace to bet in satoshis once we see more lightning network implementations and withdrawals. Also in the U.S., these are illegal - so many are offshore with licenses in the Caribbean you need to sign into.

The games that I am talking about are the fun triple games like Fortnite, Call of Duty, Halo, or Grand Theft Auto. Wouldn't that be incredible to be able to get a victory royale and win 10,000 satoshis? How about capturing the flag in Halo and you eke out a win and get a 100,000 satoshis prize in a ranked match?

Whether it is advertisers paying the pots, the game publisher, or the individual end user - I think it would be incredible to see something people love to play get rewarded for it. Publishers want to attract people to their games, advertisers want to get eyes on their products and gamers think they can often be the best! I would love to see these huge games eventually allow for earning, redemption, and withdrawal of satoshis over the lightning network. Thoughts?!