🎮 P0TS: The First Bitcoin Gaming Platform Where the Blockchain Rolls the Dice
You're a little too confident calling your platform "the first." I remember a couple of years ago there was a Telegram bot called @luckytipbot that basically offered the same thing. But it didn’t take off, and now it’s no longer working.
Back in the Ethereum boom days, there were also some pretty serious discussions about exactly these kinds of games. The general consensus back then was that if the prize for a round was significantly higher than the block reward plus fees, miners could very well start cheating with hashes.
So it turns out blockchain isn’t the perfect arbiter in matters like this. Nobody is going to launder big sums through such a scheme. Which also means the organizer shouldn’t count on making large profits.
TELEGRAM is run by a private company, so a bot there was never truly anonymous or decentralized. That’s a key difference.
As for the old Ethereum experiments—you’re right, they popped up during the boom, but most of them collapsed once ETH gas fees skyrocketed. High transaction costs killed both the games and the user experience.
And comparing Ethereum block dynamics with Bitcoin isn’t really apples-to-apples. The economics, difficulty adjustments, and security assumptions between the two chains are very different, so the same concerns don’t directly apply.
