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This is really cool. Sounds like you can earn bitcoin just by playing, without an initial investment? How are these monster drops funded?

I'm also curious to see if the latency of the blockchain has any affect on gameplay.

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Hi, BitQuest developer here.

In a nutshell, every item bought from villagers goes to a "loot" wallet where sort of randomly faucets out back to players who kill monsters.

This post explains it a little bit more:

http://bitquest.co/2016/05/19/bitquest-2.html

Nice! How do you feel about gambling? Plans to do anything similar to BitVegas[1]?

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/BitVegas

I've never gambled IRL or online and I won't feel comfortable to write gambling code as opposed to skill based games, which is what i've been playing my whole life.

I'll be happy to help, by making the bitquest repository easy to understand so people who want to make it can use our code.

You didn't by chance write the Phaser JS game engine did you?

I didn't. I've been told it's a really good engine.

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