Bitcoin Mining Game ‘Miner Wars’ Expands With New Features

Garnering more than 165,000 active players, GoMining says it has paid out more than 144 BTC—or over $13 million in rewards at today’s price—since Miner Wars’ September launch.

“Positioned at the intersection of digital mining and GameFi, Miner Wars has found a welcoming niche with a loyal and stable audience,” said GoMining CEO Mark Zalan in a statement. He said that the fresh features will bring about a “new level of traction and user engagement.”

The game gives individuals access to GoMining’s real Bitcoin mining infrastructure via cross-chain “miner” NFTs, which correspond to a real share of computational resources from the firm’s mining centers. Digital miners have been issued on Solana, Ethereum, BNB Chain, and The Open Network (TON) and can be traded on the GoMining marketplace or third-party platforms like Magic Eden.

Those who purchase miner NFTs essentially join a mining pool, and earn proportional rewards when the pool mines a Bitcoin block. Users can then upgrade their NFTs, potentially improving their chances at winning Bitcoin rewards in the process.

The digital miner NFTs are also used to join Miner Wars, which adds productivity boosts and multipliers while offering higher rewards than the usual compensation from mining. The game hosts around 120-150 rounds per day, offering around 1 Bitcoin in prizes alongside rewards of GOMINING, the company’s Ethereum-based token.

When joining the game, users commit the computational power of their miner NFTs—which is denominated in terahashes—to compete against other players, joining clans, or groups of other players in the process.

As of today’s updates, those clans are now being grouped into leagues to increase competitiveness with weekly promotions and demotions based on performance. Clans may be placed in lower-level leagues like the Dune League, which is designed for newer players, or pushed up to the Odyssey League—which offers bigger prizes, but is intended for more experienced and “elite” Miner Wars players.

The firm is also adding welcome packs that come with free boosts to help users “become familiar with the UI and mechanics of Miner Wars,” GoMining Content Marketing Manager Laila Effiong told Decrypt.

While mining, or the process of securing and verifying blocks on Bitcoin’s proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain, is a technically complex and energy-intensive process, GoMining aims to simplify it and educate more crypto users. The firm claims more than 3.5 million users worldwide, with its data centers boasting 7.5 million terahashes of computational power.

“Mining is complex, and we can’t understate that,” said Effiong, noting the difficulty of maintaining the efficiency of GoMining’s global mining operations. “But for the GoMining end users, they don’t need to feel any of that burden.”

Edited by Andrew Hayward