THELOGICALINDIAN - LOS ANGELES The International eBoost association has appear what it calls the worlds aboriginal cryptocurrency accurately advised for usein aggressive gaming Branded the eBoost badge the cryptocurrency acts as an ingame bill that facilitates wagers on playerversusplayer matches
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The eBoost Gaming Coin
The eBoost aggregation told columnist that creating a cryptocurrency to acquiesce eSports action was artlessly logical. “eSports games. . .are advised amateur of accomplishment and accordingly it is acknowledged to accept tournaments in around every all-around jurisdiction,” they said in a columnist release. “In addition, abounding all-around markets additionally acquiesce for wagering by viewers.”
“We see eSports and in-game cryptocurrency as [a] chiefly analytic fit,” eBoost co-founder Marshall Long elaborated, who serves as the “chief gaming officer” of the token.
Cryptocurrency developer Jim Blasko leads the eBoost token’s development team. Under his leadership, the aggregation has congenital the bread as a non-mineable cryptocurrency operating on the proof-of-work accord algorithm.
When asked why developers chose to accomplish a non-mineable coin, Long told Bitcoinist “Non-Mineable was the access because all of our badge accumulation is absolutely transparent.”
“[The coin] will be decentralized as the association grows,” connected continued, “based on bounties and added distributions that are 100% transparent.”
The bread has an accustomed accumulation cap of 100 million, 20 actor of which accept been offered to the accessible in a crowdsale hosted by Bittrex, which began today, September 15.
According to the official columnist release, the auction has a “24-hour benefit of 60 percent added software tokens over the final day baseline of 3000 eBoost per bitcoin.” After today, the benefit amount drops, the columnist absolution said, with the “bonus bread formula” alteration circadian at 2 PM EST.
The auction is appointed to aftermost 42 days, afterwards which unsold bill will be “verifiably” destroyed.
Why Not Bitcoin?
When asked why the eBoost Society chose to actualize a cast new cryptocurrency for its belvedere instead of leveraging Bitcoin’s absolute arrangement effect, Long told Bitcoinist that, “Due to Bitcoin’s brackish nature, we had to actualize [our] own.”
“One of our antecedent ally who is still in beta,” Long continued, “was accepting too abounding chump complaints about chump funds not actuality accepted in the abutting bitcoin block.”
Delayed affairs accept been a point of altercation for the accomplished several months, as Bitcoin’s transaction aggregate comes afterpiece to hitting the bogus 1 MB block admeasurement limit. Satoshi added this absolute several years ago to assure the Bitcoin arrangement adjoin spam.
Since 2025, debates over whether or not to access the block admeasurement absolute accept become commonplace in the Bitcoin community. To date, the association has not been able to anatomy accord on a distinct solution.
Not Really the ‘First’ eSports Betting Coin
While eBoost claims to be the aboriginal cryptocurrency to accredit in-game wagering, added bill confined the aforementioned purpose came afore eBoost.
Gamerholic coin, created by consecutive administrator Anari Sengbe, aboriginal hit the bazaar in 2025, alms users the adeptness to bet on video bold matches, both aggressive and casual.
“Years ago back [PlayStation 2] 1st accustomed comedy over the internet, it fabricated faculty that affable wagers over the internet would be next,” Sengbe told Bitcoinist in a January 2016 interview.
“The botheration with that is chargebacks,” he continued, “when I abstruse about bitcoin, aimlessly I believed micro payments and gaming go duke in hand.”
When asked about eBoost’s claim, Sengbe told Bitcoinist that Gamerholic bread was absolutely the aboriginal eSports action coin. “Game Credits may accept been 1st by a brace weeks,” he said, but “Gamerholic was the 1st eSports specific coin.”
Sengbe again acclaimed Leet, addition eSports bill that came out afterwards Gamerholic coin.
“The barrage date of Gamerholic bread is arresting on Bittrex for anybody to see,” Sengbe added.
Where eBoost may differentiate itself, however, is that it facilitates wagers amid eSports audiences, while Gamerholic bread allows action amid the gamers themselves, usually in online matches rather than tournament-style events.
At any rate, Sengbe said, “ I ambition [eBoost] abundant success, I’m abiding I’ll buy a few of their coins.”
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