Will GTA VI give massive exposure to bitcoin?

[Curious T]

I don't see how it's going to create adoption for Bitcoin. The game is not going to be built around Bitcoin. Bitcoin would just be a small part of the game, just like they do in the movies these days. I have watched a lot of movies where Bitcoin was mentioned and used. On its own, it will have no impact, not to mention a significant impact, but as a collective and with time, it will become more popular. The more people talk about it in movies, songs, video games, sports, conferences and every other place that has a large audience, the more popular it will become. Most of the people playing GTA have already heard about Bitcoin, so hearing about it again in a game is not going to persuade them to buy Bitcoin.

[suzanne5223]

Wen Grand Theft Bitcoin?
Oh wait Binance already released that game.

There's no doubt that GTA has always been great at imitating the culture it's obsessed with most of the time, which is Wall Street, social media, influencers, get-rich-quick schemes, etc.  However, their recent trailer already showed a fictional "DacityCoin" an unofficial Solana shitcoin, flying by, which is pure Rockstar humor, which i believe shows that it is unlikely for them to integrate actual Bitcoin wallets or payments.
Meanwhile, Rockstar has made a clear statement in the past about not supporting crypto/NFTs.

We shouldn't count on Rockstar giving Bitcoin any serious positive portrayal for now. If anything changes, we'll know soon, but i expect people will lose their minds the week GTA VI drops, and it's going to be entertaining either way.

[uchegod-21]

I don't see how it's going to create adoption for Bitcoin. The game is not going to be built around Bitcoin. Bitcoin would just be a small part of the game, just like they do in the movies these days. I have watched a lot of movies where Bitcoin was mentioned and used. On its own, it will have no impact, not to mention a significant impact, but as a collective and with time, it will become more popular. The more people talk about it in movies, songs, video games, sports, conferences and every other place that has a large audience, the more popular it will become. Most of the people playing GTA have already heard about Bitcoin, so hearing about it again in a game is not going to persuade them to buy Bitcoin.

You sound so convinced that a good number of people already know about Bitcoin, and therefore, the GTA games will not make much of an impact. That is quite a way to underrate their efforts. Firstly, you may think that Bitcoin is already getting fair attention, but do not be surprised by the number of people out there who still do not know about Bitcoin or those who are not fascinated by Bitcoin and what it stands for.

We should not underestimate what a little exposure can do. Bitcoin has indeed gone global, and it will even do GTA VI a lot of good, but there are still people that Bitcoin will reach through GTA.

[OgNasty]

Bitcoin would make an absolutely terrible choice of crypto to use in a game like GTA.  Not only would it completely flood the blockchain with more transactions than it could ever handle, but fees would skyrocket back to $50 per transaction like back in 2017.  The only way it could be implemented is with a deposit system, likely controlled by Microsoft, which wouldn't be very useful for most people.

I did have hope that GTA would bring a wave of new users to crypto (and it might) but that hope is fading as more and more information is released.  Personally, I think a GTA memecoin on Solana would have the potential to be the most used cryptocurrency of all time and bring a hundred million new users globally to crypto.  Unfortunately, I just don't think we're there yet.  I would really love to be wrong about this one.  If GTA released it's own memecoin I would back up the truck...

[Curious T]

You sound so convinced that a good number of people already know about Bitcoin, and therefore, the GTA games will not make much of an impact. That is quite a way to underrate their efforts. Firstly, you may think that Bitcoin is already getting fair attention, but do not be surprised by the number of people out there who still do not know about Bitcoin or those who are not fascinated by Bitcoin and what it stands for.

We should not underestimate what a little exposure can do. Bitcoin has indeed gone global, and it will even do GTA VI a lot of good, but there are still people that Bitcoin will reach through GTA.

The majority of the people who play GTA know about Bitcoin. There are very few young people who are active online, or active enough to be fans of GTA, that haven't heard of Bitcoin. I'm not saying they know or understand what it is, but they have heard about it before. It's not all of them, but the majority of them. At least 60% of them have heard about Bitcoin. So seeing it in the game won't suddenly make them start buying Bitcoin.

I did not say it has no relevance. What I mean is, on its own, it doesn't really do much, but when there is a collection of different little gestures like this, then it will have an impact. That is why I said the more ads, the more videos, video games, movies, etc., that Bitcoin gets mentioned in, that's when it will have a huge impact.

[coupable]

The more people talk about it in movies, songs, video games, sports, conferences and every other place that has a large audience, the more popular it will become. Most of the people playing GTA have already heard about Bitcoin, so hearing about it again in a game is not going to persuade them to buy Bitcoin.

It is conditioned upon the way bitcoin is represented in these contents. In all the movies I have been watching that have mentions of bitcoin use, bitcoin was always introduced as one of two things. Either as a way to get rich quickly, which is the narrative adopted by almost the majority of documentaries that were produced about bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. Or as a tool used by criminals and fraudsters to launder money or to get away with their crimes, especially cyber criminals. While the fact that Bitcoin wasn't built for those purposes, or at least it shouldn't be.

[Questat]

The more people talk about it in movies, songs, video games, sports, conferences and every other place that has a large audience, the more popular it will become. Most of the people playing GTA have already heard about Bitcoin, so hearing about it again in a game is not going to persuade them to buy Bitcoin.

It is conditioned upon the way bitcoin is represented in these contents. In all the movies I have been watching that have mentions of bitcoin use, bitcoin was always introduced as one of two things. Either as a way to get rich quickly, which is the narrative adopted by almost the majority of documentaries that were produced about bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general. Or as a tool used by criminals and fraudsters to launder money or to get away with their crimes, especially cyber criminals. While the fact that Bitcoin wasn't built for those purposes, or at least it shouldn't be.

With these contents, even if the popularity of bitcoin has reached its peak, people wouldn't still be convinced to buy and hold bitcoin especially that these contents are drawn in a negative way. Maybe because even the producers of these movies have also adopted that kind of mindset towards bitcoin.

They don't see it as a means to get freedom from the government and be a bank of their own, they only settle to what the government wants to convey to the people. Unfortunately, innocent people easily believe on what they can see on the movies without having their own research first about bitcoin.

[Botnake]

I don't see how it's going to create adoption for Bitcoin. The game is not going to be built around Bitcoin. Bitcoin would just be a small part of the game, just like they do in the movies these days. I have watched a lot of movies where Bitcoin was mentioned and used. On its own, it will have no impact, not to mention a significant impact, but as a collective and with time, it will become more popular. The more people talk about it in movies, songs, video games, sports, conferences and every other place that has a large audience, the more popular it will become. Most of the people playing GTA have already heard about Bitcoin, so hearing about it again in a game is not going to persuade them to buy Bitcoin.

This makes sense. Bitcoin is already popular even without these kind of movies, because the social media itself is also full of lies about bitcoin. That's why we can't blame those people who throw negativity to bitcoin because those ideas are gained if not from movies, but in social media articles that continuously attack bitcoin. If this is the only popularity that bitcoin could gain, well its not making a big difference. Much better if they won't include bitcoin in their movies or video clips if it only means ruining the good side of bitcoin.

[SeriouslyGiveaway]

This makes sense. Bitcoin is already popular even without these kind of movies, because the social media itself is also full of lies about bitcoin. That's why we can't blame those people who throw negativity to bitcoin because those ideas are gained if not from movies, but in social media articles that continuously attack bitcoin. If this is the only popularity that bitcoin could gain, well its not making a big difference. Much better if they won't include bitcoin in their movies or video clips if it only means ruining the good side of bitcoin.

Everything has Bitcoin in products, contents or marketing can contribute to Bitcoin exposure to the community globally and locally but Bitcoin has gone to mainstreams and GTA won't change it too much. It will have exposure contribution for Bitcoin but it's like one of many contributors for Bitcoin exposure and adoption, it's not the only contributor.

It's a little bit weird with some people but it's fair to say even scam projects with buzz words for marketing and shilling like "Our coin is a Bitcoin killer" or any scam products, services that use Bitcoin in marketing content for attracting potential victims can bring Bitcoin to more people too.

Even "Bitcoin is dead" has contribution to Bitcoin exposure.
https://bitcoindeaths.com/
https://99bitcoins.com/bitcoin-obituaries/

Even fuds have their contributions too.
https://endthefud.org/

[[btc]]

Bitcoin would make an absolutely terrible choice of crypto to use in a game like GTA.  Not only would it completely flood the blockchain with more transactions than it could ever handle, but fees would skyrocket back to $50 per transaction like back in 2017.  The only way it could be implemented is with a deposit system, likely controlled by Microsoft, which wouldn't be very useful for most people.

I did have hope that GTA would bring a wave of new users to crypto (and it might) but that hope is fading as more and more information is released.  Personally, I think a GTA memecoin on Solana would have the potential to be the most used cryptocurrency of all time and bring a hundred million new users globally to crypto.  Unfortunately, I just don't think we're there yet.  I would really love to be wrong about this one.  If GTA released it's own memecoin I would back up the truck...

I think a large majority of people here are misunderstanding me when I say "bitcoin integration/reference" - which is largely my fault. When I say "bitcoin in GTA VI", I mean sort of like a similated bitcoin-like experience. Fake wallet, fake satoshis, just like fake digital USD is used in past games. There would be no real-world-money involvement at all. You can earn fake bitcoin in game, and spend fake bitcoin in game.

As for a GTA VI memecoin, yeah that's definitely going to happen - but will most likely be operated by some memecoin influencer taking advantage of the hype, instead of an actual memecoin operated by Rockstar that could be used in game. They simply don't have the balls for that IMO.

[General_Bitcoin]

Bitcoin would make an absolutely terrible choice of crypto to use in a game like GTA. Not only would it completely flood the blockchain with more transactions than it could ever handle, but fees would skyrocket back to $50 per transaction like back in 2017.

Not all transactions will take place on the main chain either. This would obviously be extremely slow and costly if you were making lots of small payments. There are other solutions such as the Lightning Network. However I do agree that using Bitcoin in a game such as GTA would require a proper payment system. Players don’t want to have to deal with complicated wallets and paying network fees. Most gamers just want to play!

[terrific]

For exposure? yes.
But it will be a dream come true of every holder if they'll start accepting payments with bitcoin or will make a way for us to earn inside the game with money and then convert it to bitcoin in the outside.

Not only would it completely flood the blockchain with more transactions than it could ever handle, but fees would skyrocket back to $50 per transaction like back in 2017. 

This is a valid concern but this also means that demand is high and the exposure is absolutely massive.
Although I don't like to see exorbitant fees anymore but, we'll see how the network will react with its demand since it looks pretty stable for a long time with the cheap fee that we're having after the network spam from ordinals.

[atookz]

Fake wallet, fake satoshis, just like fake digital USD is used in past games.

Many thanks for explaining, that way it will be easier to test.

GTA V already conducted this experiment with BAWSAQ and LCN, a fake stock exchange that players could trade on for years. If fake assets in a GTA world had attracted real investors, you would have heard about it, but I haven’t. Fake money seems to teach the game, not the real market.

If fake sats perform in the same fashion, we'll see a brief spike in memes and that's it, no adoption. One way to test this after the 17th is to use Google Trends to check for the trend of "buy bitcoin" during the launch week, relative to a “normal” week. Searches for purchase is better indicator than consumers typing the name.