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Remember BigCoin?
If you don’t, I do not blame you. Its bubble became rapidly popped.
The abstract-based crypto “mining” game saw a sudden increase in activity in April, reaching the count of a cumulative user of about 70,000 According To do something Dushboard,
The players had to buy a virtual room and the game token to connect the passive large mining rigs, to spend big. They take the form of rigs pixelted computers, animals, animals such as animals, or other items. Rigs earned more big players over time.
The original game loop was about big earnings and expanding its features. To get a large room that can fit more mining rigs, players also have to do – you guess – pay with the big.
But there was no initial publicity around the game. By June, the game was watching less than 40 new users to join daily.
Big price remains 93% below From April 11 from All-Time High.
But it has climbed about 290% in the last month.
What did you give? Its producer, an anon that goes by “Begotoshi”, announced his departure from the project last month and is handed over It is for a small group of members of the community.
One of the main contributors of Big Cine 2.0 is a crypto entrepreneur (and pre-game developer is reported) Bordelan,
Bored, which protects its real identity seriously, describes himself as a BigCoine whale. He tried his hand in some different crypto projects in recent years, from his borbox Crypto Gaming Lutbox Idea to his Edison Metwor Project. None of those projects is currently active.
New Big Cine The community members are overseeing a “handful of”, including boredom, as well as a merchant who goes by EJR, and some others. They just Working Rigs in pixelted “mining” 29,000 abstract NFT In a way the new team can create a treasure to reinstate the game to reinstate the game.
The new team also wants to be able to add more large liquidity so that buyers do not have to pay much in slippery.
Of course, the price accident of Big was not new. Like many people, many low-cap tokens before this, when the price of Big is launched, to dump and trail downwards only for months. This price action, as well as with the fact that those who started “mining”, get more awards, which (of course valid) alleges that the whole thing was just a Ponji.
Image: History of large price through Geckoterminal.
Bore said this week that Big’s price was “out of control” when it was first launched.
As a result, it created some unrealistic expectations. And, with most tokens, the price dipped increases anger from those who bought the top.
“The problem with a lot of tokens today is that they can be made in seconds,” said bored during one Live stream Yesterday in the game, where he displayed his “mining” features onscreen.
“I think the first recurrence of BigCoine was definitely felt like a Ponji,” Bor told me when I asked him whether the allegations of “Ponzi” were fair. “I don’t think the current version of Big Cine is a Ponzi,” he said.
More than half of the larger mines have already been burnt, over 9 million have been burnt out of 16.9 million (Big has supplied 21 million).
Michael Lee, former VP in Abstraction co-horable and Activation Blizzard, confirmed me in a message that bored and bigtoshi are not the same person.
“Handover for its community mirror bitcoin of BigCoine – its success depends on beating its founder and becoming a project owned by all, yet no one. In this story, notable members such as Michael Sayler’s role, Michael Sayler.” Lee said.
He said: “With Merge Mining, Big Cine is promised in a fair token launcher – free from coles, whales, cables, bundles and market makers – for people.
Is BigCoin 2.0 successful in this way, is still in the air, of course. But about 215 unique wallets have already been purchased in new NFTs, at least some believe it can happen.
Update 8/12/2025 at 3:50 pm ET: Tokens changed for wordless clarity around burning.
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