Solitaire, Counter-Strike, Snake: How casual gaming could be a "huge" on-ramp to Bitcoin
Gaming companies Zebedee and Thndr are taking advantage of the Lighting Network, atop Bitcoin, to entertain and onboard gamers into Bitcoin.
![Solitaire, Counter-Strike, Snake: How casual gaming could be a 'huge' Bitcoin on-ramp](https:// images.cointelegraph.com/images/1434_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDkvOWI2ZDU5OTctMDhjMS00NDRhLTliZWItYjdmYjY3ZDhlMTI3LmpwZw==.jpg)
You can now play Solitaire, Snake and even Counter-Strike to earn Satoshis, tiny fractions of Bitcoin (BTC). Cointelegraph spoke with executives from Thndr Games, a game-to-earn (P2E) company built around Bitcoin and Zebedee, a gaming platform that will "transform gaming with the power of Bitcoin".
>Using the Lightning Network (LN), a Bitcoin-based layer 2 payment solution, Sats' instant microtransactions can quickly be paid out to players around the world. “It really fills a need in the game,” Ben Cousens, chief strategy officer at Zebedee, told Cointelegraph.
Zebedee offers Bitcoin and LN support for popular games such as Counter-Strike: Go. They promote casual gaming and creating inviting environments that could "bring people to Bitcoin in a way that will amaze them" , explained Cousens.
For THNDR, which launched a Solitaire-style mobile game on Monday, rolling out popular and casual game types is also about bringing people into Bitcoin. They actively target emerging market players as well as female audiences.
![](https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2022-09/99b718ad-0fe2-4d32-a5eb-9863cd9a80cf.png)
Desiree Dickerson, CEO and co-founder of Thndr Games, shared some stats with Cointelegraph during a call: "Sixty percent of all women worldwide play games, and 60% of these women play mobile games every day."
On top of that, the game industry is bigger than the movie industry: about "2.6 billion people worldwide play games", and in this segment, mobile gaming is the most popular. "It's 60% of the entire gaming market, and it's only growing," Dickerson explained.
The release of Club Bitcoin: Solitaire is specifically aimed at the growing segment of the female audience...
![Solitaire, Counter-Strike, Snake: How casual gaming could be a "huge" on-ramp to Bitcoin](https://images.cointelegraph.com/images/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDkvOWI2ZDU5OTctMDhjMS00NDRhLTliZWItYjdmYjY3ZDhlMTI3LmpwZw==.jpg?#)
Gaming companies Zebedee and Thndr are taking advantage of the Lighting Network, atop Bitcoin, to entertain and onboard gamers into Bitcoin.
![Solitaire, Counter-Strike, Snake: How casual gaming could be a 'huge' Bitcoin on-ramp](https:// images.cointelegraph.com/images/1434_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjItMDkvOWI2ZDU5OTctMDhjMS00NDRhLTliZWItYjdmYjY3ZDhlMTI3LmpwZw==.jpg)
You can now play Solitaire, Snake and even Counter-Strike to earn Satoshis, tiny fractions of Bitcoin (BTC). Cointelegraph spoke with executives from Thndr Games, a game-to-earn (P2E) company built around Bitcoin and Zebedee, a gaming platform that will "transform gaming with the power of Bitcoin".
>Using the Lightning Network (LN), a Bitcoin-based layer 2 payment solution, Sats' instant microtransactions can quickly be paid out to players around the world. “It really fills a need in the game,” Ben Cousens, chief strategy officer at Zebedee, told Cointelegraph.
Zebedee offers Bitcoin and LN support for popular games such as Counter-Strike: Go. They promote casual gaming and creating inviting environments that could "bring people to Bitcoin in a way that will amaze them" , explained Cousens.
For THNDR, which launched a Solitaire-style mobile game on Monday, rolling out popular and casual game types is also about bringing people into Bitcoin. They actively target emerging market players as well as female audiences.
![](https://s3.cointelegraph.com/uploads/2022-09/99b718ad-0fe2-4d32-a5eb-9863cd9a80cf.png)
Desiree Dickerson, CEO and co-founder of Thndr Games, shared some stats with Cointelegraph during a call: "Sixty percent of all women worldwide play games, and 60% of these women play mobile games every day."
On top of that, the game industry is bigger than the movie industry: about "2.6 billion people worldwide play games", and in this segment, mobile gaming is the most popular. "It's 60% of the entire gaming market, and it's only growing," Dickerson explained.
The release of Club Bitcoin: Solitaire is specifically aimed at the growing segment of the female audience...
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