Hopefully! But right now, it'll mostly remain P2E, it's just the lowest hanging fruit and it's very early for this tech. Long way to go before we see a fully Bitcoin-powered in-game economy in an MMO. Even though... we will be integrated into our first MMO soon, stay tuned! (not AAA title though, sorry to say)

Thanks! Generally when it comes to this, game devs fall into three categories: the believers, the haters and the on-the-fence. If someone is a hater, there's no convincing them. If they're a believer, they come to us already knowing they want it. The on the fence ones is where we need to convince them. What we see is that ideology doesn't help at all here, what works is hard stats. We do have case studies done with our partners that show massive increases in player retention with BTC implemented and that's usually what sells it. In the early days when we didn't have that hard proof, it was quite a bit harder.

yes, you're in danger of getting your mind blown

Minecraft is firmly on our radar, but there's always so much cool things to do with this tech, so many projects... it's hard to find time and resources for everything. So no promises, but it is a possibility.

It's also a much more complex game to integrate with than CSGO, where the mechanics are relatively simple in terms of what you can do with sats.

I think you got it exactly right. It's not about Bitcoin, it's a about utility. We don't use Bitcoin because we're Bitcoiners (even though we are)... we use Bitcoin because it is the best form of money for the job. You can't use USD to send a fraction of a cent to a gamer in India in real-time and give them the ability to also spend it instantly. And tokens just aren't the same, because they simply aren't money. Most people using ZEBEDEE don't exchange their Bitcoin - they spend it online as Bitcoin. Easy to do these days.

For these truly big dogs, integrating is probably a couple years out, barring a massive bull market (which always changes the sentiment towards all Bitcoin businesses massively). We are in contact with them and many other titans of the gaming industry, but at this stage it's more about letting them know we exist and getting their permission to keep them updated when we have interesting things to share. They are all keeping an eye on Bitcoin/crypto as they are aware they will have to get into it sooner or later, but the bigger they are, the more they tend to lean towards later. Which is understandable, because it is a risk for them and risk isn't something you like when you have shareholders and boards of directors to answer to for every stock dip.

The best way is to integrate with ZEBEDEE, of course! I've quickly checked out your games and I think BTC integration would be a great fit! Especially the horse racing ones, where you could do stuff like buy and sell horses for sats.

Please note though that BTC payments for in-app purchases are a bit tricky - the app stores won't like it, especially Apple. You can do it, but not as simply as "traditional" IAP. At the moment, Apple will only allow third party payments for IAP (which includes BTC) through a separate web view. This means your game would have to launch a web page where the player completes the purchase, then returns to the game. A bit of a hassle, which is why BTC is currently mostly used for in-game mechanics like rewards or P2P interactions, not IAP in the traditional sense.

If you're interested in integrating ZEBEDEE, the best way to get access and some support is to join our Discord, where we have a channel for game devs - #Game-dev. Tag @Jene and @MathG there and tell them Jure sent you to get some preferential treatment :)

Thanks for the compliment, and that's actually a pretty cool idea. We do have a product for streamers (ZBD Streamer), but that's just for live video. Streamer will be getting some cool new features soon, maybe the next step is to create a "non-live" mode that does something like you suggested! No promises, just like the idea.

It's a good idea for any Discord! The fact that it's Bitcoin isn't really that relevant, the point is to have instant tiny transactions inside the chat. Works like this: Go to https://zebedee.io/developers/bots Click "Add to Discord" DONE! The Bot will be in your server.

Then for the users (and yourself): Type /start Scan QR code with ZEBEDEE app Use the bots with / commands like /send or /rain

Users do not need to have the ZEBEDEE wallet paired to use the bot, they can instantly receive sats in Discord, then they will just pair it at a later date and receive all their tips into their ZEBEDEE account.

To my knowledge, no one is making a BTC chess game on our platform right now. What people build on ZEBEDEE really isn't up to us though and the games we make ourselves are really just for experimentation and showcases, so no chess :D

Not of the way they earn - that's always just play games, earn Bitcoin. But we all have our favorite stories of what people spend their ZBD sats on. Early on, I remember a guy let us know that he paid rent for his mom's house with cash earned playing CS:GO and I legitimately shed a few tears. This was in the middle of nowhere in Brazil where 100k sats go a long way. Plus, Bitcoin was pumping hard at the time.

Super cool idea! We're not really in the business of making games, so maybe this is a gaming studio idea for you to execute on 😉 Also, you can totally do that in a more... manual way. Just generate a few vouchers in your ZEBEDEE app, print them out, and use them as rewards in an actual in-person game of any of these!

Games are such a natural use case for this tech and gaming audiences are huge. Gaming is not bigger than music and film combined, it is the biggest part of the entertainment industry. So we chose to target that vertical first. Over time, we will probably expand into other apps as well, but for now, our focus on gaming is what gives us our competitive advantage - if you build a tool for everyone, you've built a tool for no one.

That said, if people want to use ZEBEDEE to build non-gaming apps, they totally can and we would be happy to support that!

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Happens to the best of us (not me though)

BTW, our ZBD Bots are a great example of a non-gaming application of ZEBEDEE. It really does make a difference in a community! And have we mentioned that we're promoting them on Product Hunt today? :P

We are a payments platform, what people use us for is their choice. That said, our B2B sales efforts of course have an impact on the types of apps being built and we're currently focusing on gaming as a way to get better penetration. In the future, we would love to expand more aggressively into other verticals and ZEBEDEE can definitely be used for much much more than just Play and Earn games.

Unfortunately, this is still a bit of a grey zone. With Google, we've really had no issues. With Apple, it's a bit hit or miss - most games are just fine, but sometimes updates will get rejected by the App Store and appeals or minor changes are necessary. We are working on education Apple and have made some progress there, even recently getting told by them that ZEBEDEE is officially OK by their guidelines. However, each game or app gets evaluated individually and sometimes there are setbacks where we unfortunately can't help directly. We do also help partners with best practices to avoid this.

Example: Apple doesn't like you doing something called "cash for task", where you would directly pay a user to do something - like "click here and get 10 sats". But if you make it random, it's allowed. So "click here to spin the wheel and you may get 10 sats or 100 sats or nothing." That's why you see so many of these randomized reward mechanics in Play and Earn games.

Not a bad idea, but not something we'd do ourselves. If that's a project you'd want to work on, we'd support you though!

Indeed there is! If you use the /me in a DM with the ZBD Bot, it will display your balance. If you use it in a public channel, it will show your payment info, but not your balance.

Find more info here here

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Why didn't you ask Jure as well? Cause he already has a sizeable nose and you didn't want to offend?

What 😂😂

We're not at the size where we would have dedicated initiatives for ESG, but of course we do support that. We only have one planet! IMO, the Lightning Network itself is an ESG solution - it makes money super efficient. People often fail to realize just how taxing for the environment fiat money is. Printing presses aren't exactly carbon-neutral! Nor are trucks to transport bills around etc.

We do not currently pay employees in bitcoin, due to accounting reasons. We hope to be able to do it some day, but it's hard with a global fully remote team.

Of course we keep bitcoin on our balance sheets :) We also need it constantly to keep our business running - nodes need liquidity, products need bitcoin to send to users.

But then where would the "free" Bitcoin come from? :)

Can we do it today instead? Go on Product Hunt and give some love to ZBD Bots!

Thank you, this really means a lot. We work extremely hard to make ZEBEDEE succeed and it's people like you that make it worth it 🧡

Thank you! A thousand Satoshi blessings on you good sir!

Not doing gambling at all for now - it's one of the few things we do not support (the others are porn and using IP you don't own - all these are for compliance reasons). In terms of countries, every single one that we aren't already in hurts us deeply. We want to be everywhere, but we absolutely need to be fully compliant as a requirement for big gaming studios, and especially publicly traded companies, to work with us.

That scam? https://nitter.net/coryklippsten/status/1557018371253850112

Our four AMA peeps report mixed knowledge of Stackchain 😀 We all know about it now though! Really cool project, reminds me of the Lightning torch way back when LN was a baby. Thanks for your support and for contributing to the Bitcoin community!

You mean for ZBD Bots? We weren't planning on it but are open to suggestions!

We are business partners and we collaborate closely. We are in daily contact in Slack and provide feedback to each other. We don't exactly go to the pub together to hang out, but we would if we lived close to each other, they're cool guys!