Introduction
This article is a review of my previous article with title "My Top Play-to-Earn Mining Simulators" back in January 2024 where I narrated all the latest updates about the most popular Play-to-Earn Mining Simulators that exists today on the web. The original article was written few weeks ago, however after a "sticky fingers" accident, it was erased without any meaningful assistance from Publish0x to recover it. Yet with the help of DeadButDifferent i managed to recover it after being cached at the bing web crawler.
The accident has become a lesson and I decided to save ALL my Publish0x articles offline at my hard disk for recovery. Who knows? Maybe one day the platform will go completely offline or I would be banned without reason and without notification.
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The Play-2-Earn Trend
Why should someone consume hours of PlayStation or Xbox gaming without earning any profit of it when there are several opportunities of combining the gaming satisfaction with crypto-profit from the comfort of an ordinary laptop connected to the internet?
Therefore, Play2Earn games are considered the future of the gaming world as they allow users to combine fun with the generation of profit. This can be in the form of in-game credits, NFTs or even actual cryptocurrency and theoretically they are free to play providing that the user isn't required to purchase any subscription. Yet, in-app purchases might provide to the user a higher gaming experience but also profit. Some games might be a lot more fun, combining cool features and possibility of unlimited earning potential, however, others might be a little bit more mundane.
RollerCoin - Online Bitcoin Mining Simulator
Launched in 2019, the Brazilian-based RollerCoin has been established as the most popular play-to-earn mining simulator platform trusted by 4,600,000 users who are using the platform to virtually mine crypto-assets.
Rollercoin's main goal is to generate crypto profit in several cryptocurrencies i.e. BTC, DOGE, ETH (ERC-20), USDT (ERC-20), MATIC plus RLT and RST which are Rollercoin's digital currencies. RLT and RST are used for in-game purchases mainly for the purchase of the virtual mining devices that generate the mining power but also supplementary equipment such as the mining racks. RLT can be bought with crypto-assets directly or earned through the TaskWall section that includes all the major survey and offers dashboards. Please note down that both RLT and RST are just platform's native digital currencies but NOT cryptocurrencies.
RollerCoin is still the most popular play-to-earn mining simulator platform however, after a huge investment that saw a redesign of the main interface, it is obvious that it has become anymore a Pay-To-Earn rather than a Play-To-Earn crypto mining simulator in order to become more financially sustainable and profitable after the introduction of several in-app paid features and a continuous marathon to "invest" your mining profits to stay competitive in the game.
Unfortunately, this redesign of the main interface, also made the platform extremely "heavy" for old computers, especially the gaming interface that becomes extremely slow or fast after few rounds of gaming. And so far the only solution to this is to close the webpage or refresh it and start again another session. Not the best usability for the user especially when the platform's ambition is to become profitable and sustainable with other people's crypto.
Yet the embedded season events, mini events, burning events, puzzle events or even a "Rollerelection" event between Thump and Hmepe (providing a taste of platform's governance) that may reward the user with several free miners in exchange of his/her time to play the mini arcade games that are included in the platform. And as a matter of fact, after occupying myself daily with this activity as a relax from my daily working life, all these events have rewarded me with several miners that I have spread through 3 virtual mining rooms. This is how my 2nd room looks like.
In fact, I have earned so many miners from that I was obliged to unlock a 3rd room after investing 50 RLT, that I earned in one of the several X aka Twitter Rollercoin's Giveaways.
Lately, following the latest Telegram Tap Games Hype, Rollercoin has launched a relevant game called RollerTap where the user keeps taping a RollerCoin miner to earn ... nothing.... i mean RollerCoins which again isn't a cryptocurrency and doesn't provide you any benefit for the sister RollerCoin game. So if you are a fan of wasting your time by tapping your smartphone endlessly, RollerTap is just for you.
Nevertheless, and although the harsh mining competition, the monetization and the reliability issues after the redesign of the platform, Rollercoin has remained my No1 Play-To-Earn platform for relaxing after work.
Limercoin Universe
Limercoin was established in 2023 as a mining simulator with an ambition to grab a respectful share of the continuously popular mining simulators market. Therefore, It shares the main core idea with RollerCoin for the distribution of a block reward between users every 10 minutes depending on the "mining power" of the user that is attributed through virtual "mining devices". One year after its initial launch, Limercoin Universe is still here celebrating its first birthday with a ceremonial miner for purchase but my suspicion still remains that Limercoin could have been actually developed from ex RollerCoin engineers that enjoy drinking lemonade from limes, but this is just a hypothesis.
Although, Limercoin has never been my No1 choice of relaxing, I managed within a year to slightly raise my virtual mining capacity with the help of the miner drops that were sent to my mining garage to boost its competitiveness and share on the market. I have to admit that Limercoin has a promising future, a serious contender of Rollercoin if they will attempt to further monetize their platform or experience more reliability issues.
Nevertheless, if life gives you lemons, don't just make lemonade, get engaged to Limercoin too!
Robocoin - Cryptocurrency Mining Simulator
Similar to Limercoin, Robocoin was established also in 2023 as another promising mining simulator. Unfortunately, Robocoin at around March 2024 appeared to have terminated its operations without prior notice and if someone will try to visit its website today, he will be redirected to "Connection timed out" generic webpage
For those who can understand few things about IT, normally this is a client-side issue at the user's browser, DNS server, Firewall etc. However, it can also be a server-side issue. Interestingly, on the website top100token.com at the airdrop section it appears that there is a post for a Robocoin Airdrop valid until 24/11/2024 and on TrustPilot there are only 4 5* ratings with the latest dating back at December 2023!
The only Robocoin project that I could find online is a robocoin Bitcoin ATM project back in 2014 that failed shortly after its launch in London.
SimpleBits - Earn Free Bitcoin
Launched also in 2019, SimpleBits is normally a proper GPT (“Get-Paid-To”) website. The site features a range of earning activities, including a 30 mins faucet, PTC ads, shortlinks, and offerwalls that include all the major survey dashboards, paying out in Tokens, the primary currency of the website.
Competing for shares of a virtual mining pool
SimpleBits includes a virtual mining pool of the three main hashing algorithms, SHA-256 for BTC, Scrypt for LTC and Ethash for ETH eliminating the need for the purchase of expensive mining equipment (miners) from the user.
Each mining pool round lasts 8 hours, during which the user earns a share of the block reward based on the pool hashpower contribution from the user. The block reward is paid out in “Bound Tokens” which is the withdrawal currency of the website and it can be exchanged for cryptocurrency in BTC, LTC, DOGE, ADA, BCH and DASH.
By participating in the earning activities of the site, the user earns XP points that can be used to increase user's virtual “hashpower” contribution to the participated mining pool.
Renting hardware with a return on investment
SimpleBits also offers the option of renting virtual mining hardware, that provides a return of investment on the form of "Bound Tokens". These Bound Tokens can't be used for further hardware rentals, but can be withdrawn and exchanged for cryptocurrency. There are 2 types of virtual mining hardware; high-end mining hardware priced on 5000 Tokens and Mid-range mining hardware priced on 1000 Tokens. For each type of virtual hardware there are 3 options of leasing.
For the history, SimpleBits has already paid me 0.00007877 BTC when the BTC/USDT rate was very low that I have withdrawn at my MyCointainer wallet. For more information about the fate of these funds, please read my article "When it starts smelling badly".
LarvelFaucet
Normally, LarvelFaucet is a typical Paid-to-click (PTC) site that includes all the usual earning ways, PTC Ads, OffersWalls, ShortLinks, a Lottery gambling game and a faucet that helps the user to collect points which can be exchanged directly for BTC, LTC or Dogecoin either on direct on-chain wallet or on FaucetPay. Yet, LarvelFaucet includes also a mining simulator that it was supposed to generate points automatically but it proved to be on the long term a point-eater rather than a point-earner...
So I have decided to only continue to use the PTC feature that provided me over 191001 points. Still when I tried to withdraw my points for 0.01047209 LTC on 2024-07-13 18:56:55 the status remained "Pending" until... 10th October 2024 when I received the payment at my FaucetPay account.
A situation that made me to reconsider it as a legitimate option. Yes of course waiting several months to get paid isn't ideal but I have noted down several complaints in X for Rollercoin as well.
GoMining - NFT Mining
Last but not least, there is GoMing, an NFT-based mining simulator. Yes, you heard well. Most of people so far are purchasing NFTs on OpenSea gambling on whether the creator artist will become famous, hoping to capitalize from the artist's fame to raise the price of the purchased NFT. Most of the times, it doesn't work unless you have an inside information as the artist often pumps the value of the NFTs by purchasing huge amounts of them, hoping that OpenSea will consider the pump as a genuine interest of the community. On the contrary, in GoMing, NFTs are generating profit through the mining of bitcoin satoshis on 24 hours mining cycles.
How does it happen? I am not sure, and the price of the NFTs are also significant. Does, GoMing possibly just trade the profit from selling the NFTs and if the trading is profitable, they provide to the users a dividend on their investment ? Yet, according to GoMing, with the purchase of an NFT, they claim that the user is actually buying a share of their REAL mining infrastructure that is already been engaged in Bitcoin Mining. Are there any proofs about that? No!
Interestingly, a 7-day FREE trial back on January 2024 provided me 11,286 Satoshis.
To me it looks that the whole venture is too good to be true but it might worth to try it instead of investing on OpenSea NFTs on ETH Mainnet. Finally, mind that in order to be able to withdraw your funds, you need to pass a KYC verification by providing your official identity documents (passport, driving license, identity card) which is against Satoshi Nakamoto's Vision for anonymity of the Blockchain transactions.
Final Thoughts
Currently, there is a huge Play2Earn Mining Simulators hype and new platforms emerges every month. Nobody knows how many of them will survive and continue to exist on the long term on the competitive market of Play2Earn gaming and crypto-applications in general. Someone can also check CryptoScoop and the older but less popular BitcoinMania.
Certainly, the recent Bitcoin Bull Rally has played its role as more and more people are willing to try to earn few satoshis for free. Another Bitcoin halving is approaching in few months which means the reward of auditing the Blockchain transaction will continue to be reduced. So apart from the cost of supplying the necessary mining equipment and the operational - maintenance cost, the challenges and the competition of the real Bitcoin Mining are also increasing. I am not sure which is the business model of the Play2Earn platforms. Of course the in-game purchases is a significant stream of income, however nobody knows whether behind all these virtual mining machines providing the necessary mining power, real mining equipment is hidden taking advantage of our internet bandwidth and CPU/GPU usage without noticing it.
Due to my technological background, Crypto Mining has always been a challenge, a desire, an accomplishment, something I really wanted to do for years that I have been involved in crypto-activities but so far my profits from my Play2Earn crypto mining are limited. Possibly one day I will be able to afford to operate a REAL mining rig just like Voskoin.
These are my Top Play2Earn Mining Simulators. If you already using another one, please feel free to comment below.
Disclaimer: All information found on this article is for informational purposes only. I do not provide any personal investment advice so please make your own research before proceeding to any investment/trading actions
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