Pokétoshi: Bitcoin Lightning Network Powers New Pokemon Game
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Pokétoshi: Bitcoin Lightning Network Powers New Pokemon Game

THELOGICALINDIAN - Developers are award new means to advertise the capabilities of Bitcoins Lightning Network and its microtransactions First there was the agenda canvas dubbed Satoshis Place and now Poktoshi a belvedere which enables you to comedy Pokmon via the Lightning Network

Software architect João Almeida has created a decidedly fun way to acquaintance micro-transactions powered by Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (LN). The belvedere he developed, carefully alleged Poketoshi, enables players to adore the accepted Nintendo game, advantageous 10 Satoshi per move or a tiny atom of a penny, almost around $0.0006631 USD.

The bold is set on the alive alive video belvedere Twitch, which allows the players to anon collaborate with the bold through a babble room.

Almeida has implemented a basic ambassador enabled by the Lightning Network which allows users to set their commands. Each command costs 10 Satoshi. The payments are fabricated through OpenNode – a acquittal processor enabled by Bitcoin’s Lightning Network. This added demonstrates the network’s accommodation to handle bargain micro-transactions.

While the Bitcoin association has absolutely accepted Almeida’s conception for actuality as air-conditioned as it is, an old animosity has already afresh accursed up. Bitcoin supporters accept acclimated the bold to ammunition the affray amid BTC’s Lightning Network and BCH.

Players accept been noticed to choose the name “BCASH” for their in-game characters, administration gameplay screenshots as categorical in this tweet:

Bitcoin Cash proponents authority that the BCH adamantine angle provides a bigger band-aid to Bitcoin’s scalability issues compared to the second-layer band-aid that is the Lightning Network.

Interestingly enough, this is not the aboriginal artistic attack at showcasing LN’s capabilities. Earlier this month, a agenda canvas dubbed Satoshi’s Place emerged, acceptance users to draw on it, one pixel at a time. Each pixel on the lath costs 1 Satoshi and it could be re-painted over and over again. Needless to say, the after-effects were adequately similar, as the canvas bound become a battlefield for BTC and BCH supporters.

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Images address of Pixabay.