Bitnob enables its users to send and spend money with ease, domestically and abroad. Users can ramp onto Bitcoin from their local currency and send that all over the world, or vice versa. Thanks to recen partnership of Bitnob and ZEBEDEE, users across certain African countries - like Nigeria, Kenya and Rwanda - have even more freedom to send money globally or use it locally, making use of super fast and dirt cheap transactions done on Bitcoin's Lightning Network. Hear more about it from our BD Manager Luis Vernet, and Mary Imasuen, Creative Media Associate at Bitnob. Moderated by Kevin Rooke.

The ZEBEDEE app's new feature for borderless payments allows users to convert from one local currency to another and send money across the world in seconds with near-zero fees. We have launched this feature in several locations that are essential for our community, including Brazil and the US, and now in the Philippines through our partnership with Pouch.ph. Listen to the conversation between Pouch's CEO, Ethan Rose, ZEBEDEE's Product Manager, Ben Rice, and Kevin Rooke from The Kevin Rooke Show to learn how this feature benefits millions of people worldwide who need to make global payments.

Why are developers of casual mobile games pivoting to rewarded play where players get real-money rewards for their engagement? Tune in to hear how the future of gaming looks for Mark Rose, CEO & Founder at Bear Hug Entertainment, and Chris Moss, Head of Gaming R&D at ZEBEDEE.

Bear Hug Entertainment recently partnered with ZEBEDEE to bring Bitcoin rewards to players of Coin Mahjong.

Hosted by Kevin Rooke.

VIKER's Ben Cusack and Leon Course discuss with ZEBEDEE's Igor Melniks the importance of community feedback in development of games that reward players in Bitcoin. Tune in to learn more about the impact of user feedback on gaming and the potential of Bitcoin-based reward systems.

In this episode, Kevin Rooke chats with Fountain’s Founder Oscar Merry and ZEBEDEE's CTO André Neves to discuss the power of rewarded podcasting, the Fountain app, and how podcasters and listeners can get rewarded for the value they create. Tune in now gain a deeper understanding of the possibilities that exist in the growing world of Value-For-Falue exchange.

Tune in to the conversation between Halsey Huth, Head of Growth & Partnerships at Moonpay, ZEBEDEE's Chief Strategy Officer, Ben Cousens, and the host, Kevin Rooke.

Learn:

- How players of ZEBEDEE-powered games can top up their Bitcoin balance through Moonpay and spend the sats they earned in games on gift cards or cash them out to their bank account

- What are spending and earning behaviors of ZEBEDEE's users

- Why is the adoption of cryptocurrencies in Latin America higher than in the rest of the world

- What did the integration with Moonpay unlock for ZEBEDEE's users

- What are the next steps to accelerate circular economy in games

- Lessons learned about building UX in the Bitcoin ecosystem

- What are the exciting things in the roadmap of ZEBEDEE and Moonpay

- Thoughts on in-game assets purchased with sats on the Lightning Network

- Why the gaming community often rejects new ideas before they become the norm 

Bitrefill's CEO, Sergej Kotliar, and ZEBEDEE's Chief Strategy Officer, Ben Cousens, talk about living on Bitcoin.

0:00 - Introduction

0:15 - Why the partnership between ZEBEDEE and Bitrefill matters?

3:10 - How are gaming and shopping becoming connected?

4:58 - Shopping opportunities for the unbanked

6:46 - How Gen Z sees Bitcoin and the Lightning Network?

7:42 - Is gaming a catalyst for Bitcoin adoption?

11:34 - Where do the Bitcoin rewards in games come from?

12:34 - How the Lightning Network plays a vital role in Bitcoin gaming?

13:42 - How living on Bitcoin looks like?

16:01 - Why ZEBEDEE and Bitrefill use the Lightning Network?

22:11 - What are the disadvantages of using fiat payment rails within the gaming space?

25:08 - Spending trends on Bitrefill

27:40 - Step-by-step overview of buying a Bitrefill gift card with Bitcoin earned playing games

29:02 - Q&A

29:56 - What would be the hardest thing to pay for with Bitcoin in real life?

31:10 - Closing remarks

ZEBEDEE's Head of Gaming R&D Chris Moss and Kevin Rooke discuss Bitcoin gaming.

0:00 - Introduction

0:22 - The history of money in games prior to Bitcoin

7:13 - How to strike the balance between creating a rewarding experience for players and making sure the game doesn't turn into a way for players to simply earn money 

12:34 - The Lightning Network as the catalyst that enables Bitcoin gaming

26:35 - New possibilities that emerged with the flourishing LN ecosystem

31:25 - The case for Lightning Network in gaming: why game devs should use it to make money flow seamlessly in the games real-time and how can players benefit from it

Adding the Lightning Network as a payment layer to Play-And-Earn games makes sense for a global audience. While the average individual in emerging markets nations can’t afford high gas fees on other blockchains, Bitcoin micropayments on the Lightning Network are near-instant and come with effectively no cost.

As a result, more and more gaming companies are adding borderless micropayments – powered by the Lightning Network – into their Play-And-Earn gaming experiences.

Hear out our CTO, André Neves, and our VP of Strategy, Santos Hernandez, as they talk about new economies of value that are emerging in the gaming space, in conversation with Kevin Rooke by The Kevin Rooke Show.

NBD (No Big Deal) is a new open-source initiative from ZEBEDEE for writing code and giving it to the world to benefit the Bitcoin ecosystem. Anyone can take what NBD built, integrate the solutions into their own products or modify them and create brand new products of their own. Why is NBD important and what has been built so far?

Listen to the conversation between ZEBEDEE's CTO André Neves, VP of Strategy Santos Hernandez and none other than Open Source Developer Fiatjaf.

This episode is hosted by Kevin Rooke.