Bitcoin Mining Game ‘Miner Wars’ Expands With New Features

GoMining’s Bitcoin mining recreation Miner Wars bolstered its function suite on Tuesday with the addition of newcomer-friendly “welcome packs” and a “clan leagues” function for aggressive gamers, boosting the GameFi expertise that is tied into real-world Bitcoin mining.

Garnering greater than 165,000 energetic gamers, GoMining says it has paid out greater than 144 BTC—or over $13 million in rewards at in the present day’s value—since Miner Wars’ September launch. 

“Positioned on the intersection of digital mining and GameFi, Miner Wars has discovered a welcoming area of interest with a loyal and secure viewers,” mentioned GoMining CEO Mark Zalan in a press release. He mentioned that the contemporary options will carry a few “new stage of traction and consumer engagement.”

The sport provides people entry to GoMining’s actual Bitcoin mining infrastructure by way of cross-chain “miner” NFTs, which correspond to an actual share of computational assets from the agency’s mining facilities. Digital miners have been issued on Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and The Open Community (TON) and may be traded on the GoMining market or third-party platforms like Magic Eden. 

Those that buy miner NFTs primarily be a part of a mining pool, and earn proportional rewards when the pool mines a Bitcoin block. Customers can then improve their NFTs, doubtlessly bettering their probabilities at successful Bitcoin rewards within the course of. 

The digital miner NFTs are additionally used to hitch Miner Wars, which provides productiveness boosts and multipliers whereas providing greater rewards than the same old compensation from mining. The sport hosts round 120-150 rounds per day, providing round 1 Bitcoin in prizes alongside rewards of GOMINING, the corporate’s Ethereum-based token.



When becoming a member of the sport, customers commit the computational energy of their miner NFTs—which is denominated in terahashes—to compete towards different gamers, becoming a member of clans, or teams of different gamers within the course of.

As of in the present day’s updates, these clans are actually being grouped into leagues to extend competitiveness with weekly promotions and demotions based mostly on efficiency. Clans could also be positioned in lower-level leagues just like the Dune League, which is designed for newer gamers, or pushed as much as the Odyssey League—which gives larger prizes, however is meant for extra skilled and “elite” Miner Wars gamers. 

The agency can be including welcome packs that include free boosts to assist customers “turn out to be acquainted with the UI and mechanics of Miner Wars,” GoMining Content material Advertising and marketing Supervisor Laila Effiong informed Decrypt.

Whereas mining, or the method of securing and verifying blocks on Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain, is a technically complicated and energy-intensive course of, GoMining goals to simplify it and educate extra crypto customers. The agency claims greater than 3.5 million customers worldwide, with its knowledge facilities boasting 7.5 million terahashes of computational energy.

“Mining is complicated, and we will’t understate that,” mentioned Effiong, noting the problem of sustaining the effectivity of GoMining’s world mining operations. “However for the GoMining finish customers, they needn’t really feel any of that burden.”

Edited by Andrew Hayward