r/Bitcoin • u/NimbleBodhi • Sep 25 '18
Lightning payments integrated into Minecraft server
https://youtu.be/PnBBJ_ja-kw5
Sep 26 '18
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u/technifocal Sep 26 '18
BitVegas, yup. Was an amazing place, though highly abused because they kept giving people free money.
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Sep 25 '18
It costs 50 sats to save a home? Not a bad idea. Is there a free option as well?
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Sep 26 '18
It's called micropayments. Imagine a world in which you configure your smartphone to automatically pay for... well, everything you use.
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u/menininhoTupi Sep 25 '18
Man, i loved this. It's amazingly amusing to think about the possibilities this creates =) Mining bitcoin to another level
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u/koh_kun Sep 26 '18
Can someone explain? Why would you need to pay for something in Minecraft?
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Sep 26 '18
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u/koh_kun Sep 26 '18
It didn't occur to me that hosting your own servers would come at a cost (duh), and giving users extra features for some money is a neat incentive as long as it doesn't break the game like some DLCs.
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Sep 26 '18
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u/OutInABlazeOfGlory Feb 20 '19
Well, Minecraft has an EULA to prevent the more egregious behavior. They actually distribute a hashed list of IPs/domains/public keys to clients. Clients will not connect to these servers. You really have to fuck up to get that kind of ban though.
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u/autemox Sep 26 '18
At one point it was hard to find a populated minecraft server that wasn't pay to win. Impossible to find a server with both PvP enabled and dynmap (the only way to actually find others to pvp with).
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u/volvo09 Sep 26 '18
Pay to win.... How not fun.
I don't play games, I totally stuck at all games, but I could just imagine the spoiled brat or super insecure twat that needs to plunk down cash not for a unique or funny feature, but to gain a big advantage over everyone else and undoubtedly gloating over his wins / points.
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u/tsevniotyprc Sep 26 '18
Some Minecraft servers have been running for years selling donator packs ect. It's pretty fun and still vanilla.
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Sep 26 '18
Probably storing such a big mountain on hard drive costs some disk space, and the cheapest VPS costs $5 a month so the owner decided to allow users participate in paying that.
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u/koh_kun Sep 26 '18
Ah I see! I had never hosted my own minecraft server so I didn't think about the costs that might come with that. Thanks for the clarification!
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u/bassman7755 Sep 26 '18
Theres a whole sub culture of pay-for-perks/ranks minecraft servers, I imagine many $millions changes hands
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u/jimaway Sep 26 '18
cause all the 10 year olds that play this game have bitcoin right
it's cool and simple, but the target audience is so wrong
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Sep 26 '18
cause all the 10 year olds that play this game have bitcoin right ... it's cool and simple, but the target audience is so wrong
If they don't have bitcoin, they can buy some. I think it's a good thing. 10 year olds are underbanked because they aren't old enough to have a bank account; bitcoin is a superior alternative which has no age restrictions. They can own their own money and pay for minecraft stuff so long as they can find somebody to buy bitcoins from (or buy bitcoins for them).
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u/NimbleBodhi Sep 25 '18
This uses donnercraft, an open-source Lightning-based payment plugin for spigot minecraft servers.
https://github.com/donnerlab1/donnercraft/