Topic: Make Bitcoins on Minecraft - The Bit Mines! (Read 4273 times)

Keep your eye on the chat. I'm still working out the conflicts causing this problem.

Edit: I saw you get online (DiamondCardz). Next time stay on the chat for a bit longer. It sometimes takes me awhile to get around to respond.

Update: The server has been fully migrated and is online and functional. Thanks for your patience.

It appears to be replying to my pings and detecting me...I will restart my client and see what happens.

EDIT: Still not working.

:S How many people are playing at the moment? A restart may fix it, I don't know exactly what is happening. I'll ping the server.

Hmmm.... I'll look into it. I'll update you if I figure out why you can't connect.

Cool idea but I already waste my time on one server that I already have everything setup I'd ever need. I'm not going to start over, well I don't know. I'll check it out, but I doubt I have time to build a new setup on a MC server. 

It still is down for me. :L

Cool, connecting now. Check the forums too.

I'm done.

Alright, please post when you're done so I can buy a permit.

No. 0.01 BTC = 1,000,000 satoshis. If you're the only one online, you get 50 satoshis per stone block (you get more per block the more people that are online). So, in the absolute worse case scenario of only mining stone and not finding any ores or rare materials, it would be 1,000,000 satoshis/50 satoshis per stone block = 20,000 stone blocks mined or placed.

In sort: worse case scenario + no one online and only mining/placing stone = twenty thousand blocks need to be mined or placed to get 0.01 BTC.

I will attempt to reiterate that the server is not made to simply payout bitcoins to people. It's made to incorporate bitcoins into Minecraft, not turn Minecraft into a bitcoin faucet.


Oh, my. My timing is atrocious. I'm currently migrating the server to a more powerful dedicated server. Thanks for registering. I hope to be done soon.

Re: "Why are there so many blocks that don't reward you, though?"
There are many easily exploitable blocks (such as sand and snow), which if we were to pay people to mine, they could easily rip me off very quickly, cash out, and never return. If you think there are blocks on that list that should offer claims but don't - I'm sure there are - please post specifics in the "Official Feedback" thread you can find here.

I'm sorry, but 1 MILLION blocks to get BTC0.01?? I don't think so 

Interesting, I might bite. Why are there so many blocks that don't reward you, though?

Edit: Registered on the forums.

It's not a server that pays-out to users for no reason. It's a server where you can:
- earn bitcoins by mining or building productively
- earn bitcoins by selling items and services (helping people with projects)
- use bitcoins for buying items from others
- use bitcoins for hiring people to help you

There's actually a world dedicated to player-to-player shops (using ChestShops). Typically, you get 50 satoshis per block on the server +10 satoshis per person on the server for each block (that means you can get up to 550 satoshis per stone block and up to 1000 satoshis per things like monster spawners), but you get much more for ores and rare materials (while you're in "The Mines"). I've seen diamonds sell for 0.01 BTC per diamond (not stack), but that rarely happens anymore.

As another note, I constantly, personally, pay users for helping me patch bugs on the server and for helping me with other things related to the server. Most of the money currently being paid out to members for mining or building purposefully comes directly from me. We will be holding a bunch of different competitions soon, and we're extremely open to feedback and suggestions from members. Most of what we have now is thanks to our members and their magnificent brains.

Here's a list of claims, and here's an in-depth explanation of how claims work. You might want to have a look at the FAQ.

The last thing I want to address is your "pay to play" statement. It's true that we require members to first purchase a prospecting permit to play. This ensures that we rarely have griefers and lowers the chances of someone joining the server, demolishing a bunch of stuff, getting paid, cashing out, and leaving. I understand that it makes some people unhappy to have to pay for the initial membership, but I assure you that most people make back the membership cost within a few days.

Edit: Thanks, DiamondCardz, for having me write-up some useful information to add to the About page.

Never got too much into the game after playing the demo. But for earning bitcoins... now that's a comepletely different situation

Minecraft = #1 game of all time

Lol I can play on MinecraftCC and get 50 satoshis per block with none of this "pay to play" crap...and people buy diamonds regularly there too for 0.01btc/stack.

I don't know why TBM is so popular.

Pretty much everything in the original post of this thread is entirely outdated/wrong.
Up-to-date info can be found on the site:
https://thebitmines.com/
https://thebitmines.com/claim-payouts-in-depth/
https://thebitmines.com/shop/

Also, I recently became the owner on the 24th of May, 2013 so a lot has changed (https://thebitmines.com/the-bit-mines-leadership-change/)

Their price conversions are really old. Someone needs to update this.

It's 0.02 BTC for a membership that never expires. I typically get ~0.01 BTC per day, sometimes less. You do the math.

EDIT: The membership might've been more expensive in the past, but that was when BTC had less worth than it does now. You can also choose to pay $2 instead of 0.02 BTC. You get your money back pretty quickly.

Also, OP's post is now outdated as a new round has just started. Also, the claim system is disabled for just a little while while we move to a new round. The round lasts ~3 months at which point the world gets reset (your membership stays active).

So... if I have to pay .1 BTC to play, isn't this basically just paying for a spot on a minecraft server when I could just play for free?

Especially when the amount I would need to mine just to make that super high entry fee would basically mean mining like 100k blocks a day lol?