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Title: [2016-01-31] Gamerholic, the First ‘Billion Dollar Gaming Company’?
Post by: secone on February 01, 2016, 12:06:27 AM
For more competitive gamers, Gamerholic offers a console and PC tournament section on their website, where it picks a game and sets up a tournament for its customers. At press time, the current tournament is for Madden ’16 on PlayStation 4. This tournament has 3 prizes, similar to the prizes for other tournaments hosted on Gamerholic. First place gets 1 bitcoin and 1,000 Gamerholic coins (GHC); second place gets 0.50 btc and 1,000 GHC; and third place will receive 0.25 btc and 1,000 GHC.

http://bitcoinist.net/gamerholic-first-billion-dollar-gaming-company-anari-sengbe/


Title: Re: [2016-01-31] Gamerholic, the First ‘Billion Dollar Gaming Company’?
Post by: Kakmakr on February 01, 2016, 06:24:04 AM
I am very happy about this move and were advocating for bitcoin prizes in commercial tournaments for a while now. This might just be the one thing that could launch Bitcoin into the mainstream gaming environment. A lot of players might not have even heard of Bitcoin and could investigate further, if it was offered as a prize.

A big kudos goes out to these guys for doing this. I hope this gets supported by other Bitcoin companies like Coinbase and BitPay and a lot more ^cough^


Title: Re: [2016-01-31] Gamerholic, the First ‘Billion Dollar Gaming Company’?
Post by: Swordsoffreedom on February 01, 2016, 06:32:24 AM
As long as I have a platform where I get paid to kill some noobs or get pawned by someone and have a chance of making a bit of cash while having fun i'm all for this type of gaming, casual and serious play with small change on the line is something I would like to see.

Gamerholic Founder Anari Senge in Gamerholic’s pitch for Shark Tank
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLNiDfyGUb0

More power to him if it gets on Shark Tank I will be going YA the whole way :)