 Welcome to the Daily Decrypt, in currency competition we trust. I'm your host Amanda, and today's episode is brought to you by Crypto Compare. What market share is there to be had by catering a crypto network to a specific demographic of people, like gamers? Jeremiah Nickel is the marketing manager for a cryptocurrency called Hyper, a two-year-old network with roughly a $100,000 U.S. market cap. She's here to tell us more. It does have kind of a niche. It's not, we're not trying to be Bitcoin. We're not trying to be Ethereum or anything like that. It's probably a fork of Bitcoin. I'm not technical enough to tell you. All I know is it's proof of stake. There's probably about a hundred nodes out there. So I was reading on the website, it says something like Hyper is living on like some game servers or something. Now maybe it's because I've always failed every time I've ever tried to download the software for an MMO game. I downloaded Counter Strike Go, for example, and tried to play it and just couldn't get it figured out on my computer. I see in Hyper's marketing materials that it's like, hey, use Hyper on Counter Strike Go. How does that work? Well, you would go to, there's a website called cashandcarry.info that has several game servers set up and the hypercrypto website should be redirecting you to some of those servers and within the game, you would be plugging in the data for the IP addresses for those servers to connect to the specific servers that are hosting the hyper-enabled gaming platform. Does that make sense? You're not just playing Counter Strike Global Offensive and it's working with Hyper because that hasn't been made yet. So that would be nice for Hyper to be like, for instance, an EA sports coin that would be used. But right now it's just private servers that are hosting the games and the competitions and there's a list of active servers at the hypercrypto.com website as well as cashandcarry.info. Okay. So then the way it works is that somebody to join a server for these MMO games in general, people pay to join those servers, like to offset the server's costs. Is that right? Well, some of them. I don't know the answer to that one specifically because I'm a fan of what the coin's trying to do but I don't have time to game. I'm a dad of four full-time DJ and a music teacher and everything else. I like the idea of all those things. I don't have the right answer for that. I don't think you have to pay anything. They award Hyper for killing bots in the game. So if you're on their server, you can earn Hyper just by playing and time to time they'll do competitions where for CSGO it's terrorist versus counter-terrorist and then there'll be a pool of 100 or 1,000 Hyper for the winner. So those competitions are going to become more prevalent as time goes on. I will say the other thing that's kind of neat is not just tied to the hyper-crypto servers but there's actually a hyper-tip bot that's available for Twitch streamers. So this is kind of a unique concept. There's a few other coins to do this well. Actually as a Twitch streamer, you would invite the hyper bot to be in your chat so then people can donate Hyper to your Twitch stream or they can bet like micro-betting which I think is going to be a really neat thing for us. One thing and not to go too off-subject from your original question but one thing I would love to see Hyper do is start sponsoring gaming Twitch streams to where Hyper is kind of like the currency of the streamers. And so it's a way for us to sponsor teams as they go to competition eventually to the big time. So it's kind of like hey this guy endorses Hyper or whatever so for this team. But it's kind of a neat way to share Hyper in the Twitch ecosystem and it's all micro-transactional stuff which is fun. This is kind of reminding me of the marketing strategy I've seen from Dogecoin users over the past couple of years because it's basically where people who hold a lot of the crypto are just keen to invite others into their community basically and so they'll just give lots of giveaways. Dogecoin is famous for people just tipping each other micro-tips all of the time and that's what you're describing with this whole game servers thing. It's like hey if you come play Counter-Strike Go on this server we will tip you out in Hyper based on your number of kills. That's right and viewers here's the other thing when the hyper-crypto Twitch stream is live viewers can go in and pick whether they want to bet on the terrorist team or the counter-terrorist team for CSGO and you can actually bet with just a small command in the chat field hey I want to bet 50mhyper which is a small very insignificant amount of money for now anyway to the terrorist team that they're going to beat the counter-terrorist as long as there is a bet that counters yours when the match is done the payouts are automatic. And so you have a wallet address that sits in the hyper-tip bot on Twitch and then you can withdraw that if you want or you could just donate directly to the streamers or you could donate to the server that's hosting the game I mean there's you're right about the doge kind of that doge effect in fact something that we're really happy to announce literally 20 minutes before we started talking John Fitch has accepted our bounty. Who's John Fitch and what's the bounty for? John Fitch is a mixed martial artist formerly of the UFC and he has actually been sponsored by Nautilus coin in the past and so I like him and may I follow it a little bit and I've known John Fitch I've known his name for a long time I was like man what are the odds we could get John Fitch because he's now in the world series of fighting and so you're talking about you know the way people in a community can rally around somebody well we're also rallying around one of his causes which is to get the Muhammad Ali act for MMA fighters basically giving MMA fighters the same rights as boxers and so what we did about a month ago is we reached out to John Fitch and I reached out to the community over one of my video updates and told the community hey let's try to get John Fitch sponsored and then John Fitch we responded back his management team was like well we could cross promote something we're doing in meantime because they weren't sure they were gonna accept the bounty right away and when you say sponsor you mean like he's gonna like wear the word like hyper like on the bottom of his shorts yes so it'll say it'll say hyper and we'll have the dollar sign it'll say hyper and they'll say hyper crypto calm it'll be on his shorts and it'll be on a billboard or a banner of some kind might even make it onto t-shirts and so we came up with the logo I had a friend of mine help me out with the logo we just debuted the logo that's what I tweeted out I think you may have seen it John Fitch liked it his management team liked it and we raised over 50,000 hyper and the fights on April 2nd in Las Vegas for the world series of fighting welterweight belt I believe it's the welterweight belt it's it's right it's either the main event or right before the main event so it's when you say bounty is it as simple as you you've offered him hyper he's accepted and so there will be like the logo placement on the shorts or is there something else he has to do to get the bounty I'm just a little bit confused by the word bounty okay so now it yes he will just wear the logo got it okay hyper was kind of a number that he thought might work and we thought might work and then the interim because it's it's kind of like at the time we started this he didn't even have his fight card announced who he was going to fight then the fight card changed to another contestant and they weren't even sure the venue yet so we had kind of a gentleman's agreement early on listen we will talk about your cause for MMA fighters in the meantime if you could help us out with our cause for spreading word around hyper that was it and the goal was 50,000 hyper we had some generous donors come forward and within the last two weeks we got the 50,000 because of the dollars approximately in 1500 so it's not it's not a large sum of money but well I mean in the crypto world it could be a lot of money can it but in some ways you know in the fight world it's a very generous acceptance for for him to take on a currency that as we all know crypto moves around quite a bit in price and so you know it really he's he's showing us that he's a he's a believer in crypto in general he took on them he took on them pay out from Nautilus coin once upon a time now he's doing and so our community you know our community kind of feels very strongly about it and all of us guys are into other currencies as well you know I mean this is this is just kind of a neat little niche with with the gaming world that you know it's good I think it's it's fun best part is it's two years old it'll be two years old in about a month and that's that's a long time in crypto land for a coin to have lasted that long I mean it just is I mean let's just face it and so there's it's kind of fun to celebrate the two year birthday coming up and we got an active community let's talk about other games that have hyper servers so there are counter strike go servers where people can go and play and get tipped in hyper it based on kills what other games also have these servers I'm gonna go to cash and carry that info and I can tell you battlefield three battlefield four team fortress two insurgency fistful of frags left for dead two nuclear dawn pirates Vikings tonight's day of defeat there's a world of warcraft server looks like a battlefield four server there's also a and we I mean I think the community likes to have those games around because they're already fully developed and you know it's a lot of fun but you we're also into kind of the small guy to the indie developers that the snake game faucets and the the space based MMO that's a you know basically a browser based game there's so I could play those without downloading anything I could play the snake game faucet just through the web yeah absolutely and then the Knights of Valeria is actually I'm gonna look it up real quick pardon me I can't type and chew gum and talk yeah Dragon Knights of Valeria is making sure I got the right one yeah it's crypto database on the bitcoin announcement page it's a crypto database.net will get you there Dragon Knights of Valeria is a pretty neat little strategy game as well I mean it's an indie developed game there's there's also another company Frost Studios is coming out with a battle arena car crash type of game right so you drive a tank around in a battle arena with you know missiles and guns and everything you try to blow people up that's also going to be able to have some side bets and things going on that actually rolls out in November so there's there's a few games that are incorporating hyper as well as a couple other coins excuse me okay I'm sure that are going to be out soon okay well that just leads me to one final question then which is okay so if I or someone else were to go and acquire some hyper for myself from killing people in games is there anywhere that hyper is traded or spendable yep it's at Bittrex I hope I said that right bitrex.com is the exchange and then it's on shapeshift you can use it on shapeshift it's already incorporated incorporated and ready to roll there's also a couple other ways that hyper can be traded you know for other monetary value sets and whatnot so hyper's you know it's a plug it's a plug-and-play coin for shapeshift that's a pretty big deal I mean to be included in that in that list and you know that that says something and the best part is is you know wallet to wallet transactions it confirms very fast the the wallets are I think 5% proof of stake monthly compounding for something like five years and they'll go down to 2% so it's very easy to it's very easy to get started very easy to buy at bitrex.com or you can just shapeshift it and be done I mean yeah it's easy and there's a few merchants out there that accept it it's accepted through coin payments.net so that's a payments processor so you can use hyper to purchase things online that you would any other coin it's very fluid right on all right well thank you for your time and Jeremiah and yeah 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