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Bitcoin Pizza Day means to celebrate the first bitcoin payment A Physical Good: Papa John’s Pizza in 2010.
But here is a palate cleanser: three days ago, the founder of the early Mmorpg adopted bitcoin for monthly membership in a story, apparently became the first commercial video game to do so.
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We are a little deception: bitcoin mimo de was really TomorrowOn May 19.
At least, when Andrew “Tapi” Taper first announced that he opened his ancient Egyptian-Theme online rollplaying game for bitcoin.
“I run mmo A story in the desertWe charge $ 13.95/month for the game, and pays $ 0.74 in traders and gateway fees, ” wrote On bitcointalk.
“Now we will accept bitcoin as an alternative payment method. The price per month is 2,000 BTC, which is still exempted according to the exchange.”
He was correct: Bitcoin traded for less than half a percent at that time, a month’s pricing of one month at $ 9.20 when paid in BTC – a discount of 33%.
Taper initially expected to match the in-game user name with messages associated with each bitcoin transaction. Bitcoin Pizza Gai Laszlo Hanesses quickly reported that messages could only be included while sending coins to IP addresses, a feature that was eventually removed in 2012 due to security concerns.
“Hmm – Is any lesson area associated with an address -based transaction? Taper replied.
Taper’s discovery gave rise to a discussion about encrypted messaging through transaction output, which was planted in Satoshi: “Bitcoin uses EC-DSA, which can only sign a digital, not an encryption.
Laszlo continued to help the taper in a safe solution to accept bitcoins, a one that would generate a new bitcoin address to receive each separate payment.
It is unclear whether such a system was ever implemented, but the address taper was originally supplied for membership get In two months, 42,100 BTC has an eye-water in 27 different transactions, back to $ 3,600, but today $ 4.4 billion.
Taper gone launch Another Mmorpg, the story of Dragon, is three years later, is completely based around online gambling.
Of course, the story of Dragon accepted bitcoin (and credit card), and even painted Tap-like mini-game It gave free BTC in late 2016, when the coins were trading on an app of approximately $ 600.
We have found a line for the taper to see if he is ready for chat, but in the meantime …
Happy bitcoin mmo day!
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