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  You Can Win Bitcoin By Playing This Blackjack Game

  There's a new way to play blackjack—and you can win Bitcoin for playing. THNDR Games, a company that specializes in play-to-earn games built around Bitcoin and the Lightning Network, announced Tuesday that it has added a competitive version of blackjack to its Clinch gaming app. The app is available for iOS via the App Store, as well as via direct download for Android or available to play on the web. Unlike some Bitcoin games that are heavily ad-supported and pay out tiny slivers of BTC while yo...

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  This Week in Crypto Games: Robinhood's $2M Bitcoin and Dogecoin Trivia Game, 'Axie Infinity' MMO Revealed

  The crypto and NFT gaming space is busier than ever lately, what with prominent games starting to release, token airdrops piling up, and a seemingly constant array of other things happening at all times. It’s a lot to take in! Luckily, Decrypt’s GG is all over it. And if you need a quick way to get caught up on the latest moves around crypto video games, we’re happy to present This Week in Crypto Games. Our weekend roundup serves up the biggest news from the past week, along with a few other tid...

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  You Can Earn Bitcoin by Playing Mobile Solitaire Games—Here's How Much

  There's a slew of crypto-infused games out there that let you earn Bitcoin while you play—and you don’t have to buy any NFTs to get started, or spend any money at all. Solitaire is one of the most popular games to be injected full of Bitcoin rewards on iOS and Android, with two main games that let you stack sats (or satoshis, a.k.a. 1/100,000,000 BTC) while stacking digital playing cards: THNDR Games’ Club Bitcoin: Solitaire and Bling Financial’s Bitcoin Solitaire. Both games are broadly simila...

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  Play Games, Earn Bitcoin: The Best iOS and Android Games That Pay You BTC

  Did you know that there are mobile games that pay real Bitcoin for playing? These are legit games that you can download from the iOS App Store or Android Play Store, and as you play the game and watch ads between rounds or levels, you’ll stack up satoshis (aka the smallest denomination of a Bitcoin). Granted, you’ll need to keep your expectations in check—most of these games pay out something in the ballpark of a few cents worth of Bitcoin per hour of play. Nobody’s going to get rich playing a B...

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  You Can Earn Bitcoin by Playing Mobile Bubble Shooters—Here's How Much

  Bubble shooter (or popper) games have been a fan favorite dating back almost 30 years to Taito’s Puzzle Bobble (aka Bust-a-Move), and the genre has corralled a new generation of casual fans on mobile. Now you can earn Bitcoin by playing them, too. A pair of games on iOS and Android—Bitcoin Pop and Bitcoin Bay—offer cryptocurrency rewards while playing, although beyond that shared premise they vary in design, amount of ads that pull you out of the game, how they each dole out Bitcoin rewards. Aft...

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  'Hope You Enjoy Prison': Crypto Twitter Reacts as Sam Bankman-Fried's Bail Is Revoked

  Crypto Twitter did not hold back Friday amid news that disgraced FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail had been revoked. He was remanded to jail by a federal judge due to witness tampering, and industry personalities impacted in some way by his alleged misdeeds let loose on the social media platform. “Take that, you witness tampering vegan-faking, money stealing, egotistical, delusional, coked-up, fraudulent, orgy-goblin, bean bag sleeping, self-entitled, stuck-up, pudgy little, tw...

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  Tetro Tiles Is an Easy-to-Play, But Tough-to-Master Puzzler With Bitcoin Rewards

  Mobile gaming could be the path to mass adoption for crypto, thanks to developers like THNDR Games, a broad potential audience of smartphone and tablet users, and the allure of real Bitcoin rewards for playing. And Tetro Tiles is one of the latest examples of that. THNDR uses Bitcoin’s layer-2 Lightning Network to reward mobile gamers with satoshis (or sats), which are the smallest denomination of Bitcoin (1/100,000,000 BTC). THNDR has now released six Bitcoin games on Apple’s App Store and the...

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  Bitcoin startup backs tourney with in-game micropayments

  Stuck indoors social distancing? You could play indie games and stack sats. Magic Internet Gathering (MINTGOX) hosted its inaugural event on Sunday, showcasing what video game tournaments could look like with in-game Bitcoin microtransactions.  MINTGOX is the brainchild of Zebedee, a platform that helps developers integrate Bitcoin Lightning payments into video games. The event involved collaboration with Lightning Labs, Bitcoin 2020, and THNDR Games.  How in-game Bitcoin microtransactions could...