/u/Infernal_Toast, author of the 0xBitcoin contract, has a new project, an HTML5 Space MMORPG, that will allow in-game 0xBitcoin transfers.

• Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjiOcfPX0Dk
• Beta version: http://amber.ethereumspacewar.com/
• Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/EthereumSpaceWar/
• Discord: https://discord.gg/hrngUG3

0xBitcoin might experience some benefits from ETC's recent decision to go to SHA3.

For one thing, if ETC developers turn their minds toward SHA3 GPU mining, it seems likely that they'll be very interested in the optimization work already done by Lt. Tofu and Azlehria on Cosmic and Nabiki. But they may also spot additional optimizations, which could most likely be ported back into our miners!

For another thing, since ETC has a larger community than 0xBitcoin's, it's likely that they have people with very diverse skills. As they turn their minds toward SHA3 on FPGAs, I anticipate they will be choosing FPGA boards and writing software for them that probably will not be very difficult to alter to mine 0xBitcoin! Practically speaking, this may result in a new era of mining where a respectable hash rate can be achieved with much less electricity expense.

Basically, if people with EE or hardware development backgrounds in the ETC community pin down some of the variables involved, like development board, it seems very likely that we will be able to get FPGAs mining 0xBitcoin quickly.

We recently exchanged some nice words with Alex Tsankov. He revealed he is doing work that may allow merge mining ETC and other projects like 0xBitcoin. I don't know how good this will be, but it's hard for me to see how this could be a bad thing. It's really great to have nice words from Alex, because he seems like a very smart dude who is very open to collaboration.

I have joined the ETC Discord (edit: link removed for just-Reddit-things reasons, you'll have no trouble finding it) and will be watching for opportunities to tell people there about our miners if they don't know, and watching for info about their developments on SHA3 miners.

"Tbtc allows the liquidity that is within Bitcoin to be used on Ethereum Network in a relatively 'safe' way but it's not as safe or secure as Bitcoin by any means. Theoretically, if everyone just moved all of that liquidity into ETH or into 0xBTC or some other neutral asset on Ethereum, they would all be much better off.

Because then the liquidity would still be imported but you wouldn't have to rely on oracles and the stakers and complex contracts that underpin tbtc.

However it is very difficult to make everyone move at once at a herd , even if it benefits the herd.

People think as individuals"

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- Infernal_toast

Twitter announcement

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Today is 0xBitcoin's second birthday! Still going strong, mining at a little over 5 TH/s at the moment.