Poker player, Mauro Velazquez, has decided to use his online poker winnings to create a Bitcoin scavenger hunt style game called Coinding.
In an article that has emerged on the digital currency news site CoinDesk, professional online poker player Mauro Velazquez has revealed his intention to take his $250,000 winnings and invest them in his new virtual game Coinding.
The game is a scavenger hunt/orienteering style of game that allows players to collect Bitcoins from various locations by completing a series of challenges, or retrieving Bitcoins deposited on the streets by the games developers.
“We’re leveraging the ability to give away fractions of Bitcoins so that more people can get into the Bitcoin economy before going through the barrier of actually risking money to buy them.” Velazquez told CoinDesk.
Velazquez has a team of eight people working on the game that will be launched in three-months time. The virtual treasure hunt will be available on both iOS and Android platforms, and will be seen as a very low risk opportunity to handle the virtual currency for the very first time.
Coinding promises to turn your mobile phone into a ‘coin magnet’ and you use it to pinpoint Bitcoins that are found on CoinMap, a world overview of all locations that trade in Bitcoins, designed by Pavol Rusnak.
Velazquez hopes to get his cache of Bitcoins from investors and Bitcoin traders who are keen on attracting more Bitcoin users to their stores.
Poker Player Leaves $300k in the Back of a Taxi
It seems one over exuberant professional poker player wanted to get ahead of Coinding, and create a scavenger hunt of their own, after they left $300k in the back of a taxi after winning the haul in a cash game at the Cosmopolitan Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
Las Vegas cabbie Gerardo Gamboa picked up the unidentified poker player at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, before dropping him off at Palms Place. Gamboa told the press that the player handed him a $5 tip.
Gamboa then drove to the Bellagio where the hotel doorman noticed the bag in the back seat of the car and alerted the driver who moved in onto the front seat thinking it was a bag of chocolates.
The honest taxi driver peered into the bag to see what was inside and noticed six bundles of $100 totaling $300,000 in cash. Gamboa immediately handed it in to the lost and found department of the Yellow Checker Star Transportation Company, who along with casino officials, managed to find the owner.
Gamboa has since been rewarded by his company after they named him the Cabbie of the Year, gave him a $1,000 reward and a slap-up dinner for two. It’s unknown whether the poker player has, or will, give Gamboa a slightly larger tip now they have become reacquainted with their haul.
“If he doesn’t give me anything, that’s OK,” Gamboa told the Sun. “I’m not waiting for any kind of return. I just wanted to do the right thing, and I appreciate what the company did for me.”
The name of the culprit has yet to be revealed despite several sources citing Jason Koon, David ‘Viffer’ Peat or Scott Seiver as the yet unidentified poker player.
