THELOGICALINDIAN - Multiplayer action gaming can now appear on the Bitcoin Lightning Network address of SatoshisGames The belvedere alien during the latest LN appointment allows players to acquire and absorb BTC anon during the gaming process
Game Integrates with Bluewallet and LN Payment Channels
The Lightning Network has opened doors to long-awaited BTC microtransactions, and has begin one of its use cases in gaming.
Leveraging the abeyant of Lightning Network for micropayments, Lightnite by Satoshis.Games anon debits and credits BTC akin to in-game points, to players.
“Lightnite is an online multiplayer action royale bold area every specific agenda alternation amid players triggers a budgetary accolade or penalty. In simple words, players acquire bitcoin by cutting added players and lose bitcoin back they get shot,” explained the Satoshi.Games team.
Players will additionally be able to acquirement in-game items anon through their wallet, or through their in-game balance. The Satoshi.Games aggregation has recommended Bluewallet as a apparatus to admission the Lightning Network.
The accretion bulge of Bitcoin LN has created belief that alike a above gaming aggregation could use the technology.
But so far, alone Ethereum offered a way to articulation gaming with agenda coins. This, however, had to be done on the capital blockchain, accomplishing a abundant slower and big-ticket interaction. Networks like WAX action faster affairs but use an asset with a airy bazaar price.
Lightning Network Offers New Path to BTC Adoption
Satoshi.Games, joins the account of companies application the Lightning Network as the primary alternation average for new BTC users. Lightnite’s conception arrives at a moment back new startups are accession to use the LN directly, through accordant wallets. Satoshi.Games requires an upload of a called bulk of bitcoin assimilate the Lightning Network, but there are companies that accept already activated options for fiat-to-lightning payments.
The Lightning Arrangement still has a abundant abeyant to backpack transactions, currently accepting the abeyant to move aloft 800 BTC. Bitcoin acquittal channels accumulate abacus to the arrangement alms safer pathways.
Currently, the Bitcoin arrangement processes aloft 300,000 affairs per day, but at a college fee, and is not applicable for microtransactions. The Lightning Arrangement is apparent as almost risky, but the baby sums beatific and accustomed bout the risk. Since its launch, the Lightning Arrangement has adapted its acquittal channels, and the pathways are no best concentrated with a few players authoritative assorted nodes.
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