Gamers would rather earn bitcoin than NFT: research

Non-fungible tokens (NFT) have had no shortage of popularity over the past few years bull run. However, this new market has also had to receive hard blows as a result of the downward crypto market in the past year. This does not alter the fact that bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies also had a year that people want to quickly forget.

Earlier you could read in the NFT news that the number of new players in the crypto-gaming sector continues to grow, despite a decrease in investments in this sector. It also turned out that many major game studios are still not a big fan of NFTs. For example, Valve, maker of Half-Life, indicated at the beginning of this year that scammers and volatility were the reasons for not integrating NFTs on the popular Steam.

Blockchain gaming

A recent survey of ZebedeeBitcoin gaming infrastructure provider, has surveyed gamers from the United States about their exposure and opinion on blockchain gaming.

The research shows that 67% of respondents would be more likely to play a game right now if they offered crypto rewards. In addition, 45% believe there are benefits to being able to trade game characters and items with other gamers. On the other hand, 23% believe that this could have a negative impact. The remaining 32% did not comment.

Rather bitcoin than NFT

In addition to the aforementioned results, the study also concluded that gamers prefer to earn bitcoin over NFTs in games. In fact, 27% of participants were interested in earning bitcoin, while only 5% were interested in earning NFTs. BTC is therefore strongly preferred over non-fungible tokens in so-called play to earn (P2E) games.

Ben Cousens, Zebedee’s chief strategy officer, had this to say about the interest in bitcoin:

“Despite most of the industry’s focus on NFTs, we found that Bitcoin stands out as the most popular decentralized asset among gamers when compared to other cryptocurrencies, including NFTs.”