Does Bitcoin in reality have anything to do with Bitcoin in Tarkov?

Last year, the Russian shooting game Escape from Tarkov became popular on the live broadcast platform.

Players know that the biggest feature of this game compared to other multiplayer shooting games is the perfect and unique economic system. But few people know that Escape from Tarkov is also one of the few games that have joined Bitcoin. Tarkov's Bitcoin is represented by a prop called "physical Bitcoin".

Players can sell the Tetris game machine they find to an NPC in the game in exchange for physical Bitcoin. If you are lucky, you will also pick up physical bitcoins directly in the battle.

But the mainstream way to get bitcoins in games is still mining. With the help of NPC, players can set up a mining machine in their hideout, and then shove in the graphics card, they have searched for and enjoy the rewards.

Three years ago, the development team added a Bitcoin mechanism that is connected to reality. What is the price of Bitcoin in reality and what price players can sell physical Bitcoin in the game-maintained at less than 150,000 rubles for a long time?

By 2020, the physical bitcoin price has closely followed the real market, and it has skyrocketed as if riding on a rocket, breaking through 200,000 roubles in November, breaking the 300,000 marks in December, and then quickly reaching 400,000, 500,000 in 2021. 600000…

As of February 22, the price of Bitcoin had risen to 780,000 roubles, which had doubled several times before the quote.

Escape from Tarkov is currently still in the public beta. In order to test the updated content of the version, players' archives will be deleted regularly. The most recent deletion occurred on Christmas last year, which was the period when Bitcoin was steadily rising.

The mercenaries played by players in Tarkov are life-threatening at any time, so they generally don't engage in long-term investments, but directly sell bitcoins, exchange them for rubles that can be circulated in the game market, and then use these rubles to purchase weapons used in the war. equipment. After death, mercenaries will lose most of the weapons and equipment, and materials found in the battle. Although there are ways to retrieve them, one more way to make money is definitely one more way to survive.

After the new file is opened, touching the graphics card to set up the mining machine as soon as possible has become a well-known wealth code. Because I have a job, I don't spend much time in Tarkov. It's a dish. It's a commonplace meal for nothing. It's just because the mining machine is built and I can have a stable and high income every day, I can be in this hardcore. Live very moisturized in the game.

However, Bitcoin market fluctuations will also affect the entire Tarkov market order.

First of all, the bitcoins provided by the mining machine can now be exchanged for more rubles. Players who own the mining machine can move to "freedom of wealth" earlier than before, and then squander lavishly, buying more sophisticated guns and ammunition, high-end guns, and The supply of ammunition is in short supply, ushering in a surge.

Secondly, the demand for electronic products has increased and prices have risen. Needless to say, the graphics cards used for mining need a lot of electronic components such as power supplies, capacitors, CPU fans, etc. to set up the miners. The prices of these components are also rising, just like the reality that the miners are out of stock after the Bitcoin skyrocket.

Third, the price of fuel has also been affected. This is different from reality. In the game, fuel is one of the scarce resources. Players need to inject fuel into the generator at all times to maintain the operation of the mining machine. As more and more players own mining machines, fuel has become more scarce and prices remain high.

If you look at these three points together, you will find that as the price of Bitcoin rises, the economic strength gap between new players and old players is gradually widening. Old players with mining machines travel all over the world, and new players without mining machines have changed. It's hard to move.

The soaring prices of electronic products and fuel have led to an increase in the rubles required by Mengxin to purchase them, making it increasingly difficult to build a mining machine. If you don't want to be exploited by other players, Mengxin will enter the battle to compete with others for supplies, but advanced equipment has become expensive, and the opponent has already used the bonus of Bitcoin to arm himself to the teeth. Mengxin has little chance of winning and survives. Opportunities to move supplies are also reduced.

Presumably, even the development team of Escape from Tarkov would not have thought that the trend of real Bitcoin would one day have such a huge impact on the entire game environment.

In the past two days, the development team has introduced many updates, including reducing the mining efficiency of mining machines, increasing the number of materials required to erect electronic equipment such as mining machines, and so on. These changes are not so much to ensure that new players are not dismissed, but to prevent all players from "graduating" as soon as possible, forcibly extending the life of the game, and increasing the length of the game for players.

Tarkov's development team is an activist from Russia. They rarely consult players and even make drastic changes to the game without making any announcements, which will inevitably lead to player dissatisfaction. However, the market economy is lagging, and the development team needs some time to understand the effects of each update; this time the archive will be deleted sooner or later, and they still have the opportunity to make more changes to fundamentally change the wealth of the rich and the poor. Dilemma.

In any case, Bitcoin linked to reality has become one of Tarkov's game features. Although everyone knows that decoupling is the easiest way to solve all market problems, this group of Russian developers will not give up lightly.

From the perspective of an ordinary Tarkov player, although I am also a "beneficiary" of the market, I hope that the Bitcoin bubble, in reality, will burst soon-from the perspective of the game, the economic order of Tarkov will be restored It is helpful for new Amway players to enter the pit; from a realistic point of view, my friends can also update the hardware as soon as possible and suffer from this hardcore game with me, and no longer have to worry about the budget of the graphics card on the computer configuration sheet.

Please note that this is only personal wishful thinking. I have no prejudice against Bitcoin, and I have not made any predictions about the mining disaster, nor have I given readers any investment tips, whether it is in the Escape from Tarkov game or in the real world.