E110: Paul West on Fumb Games, Creating New Bitcoiners, and Adding LN Payments to Bitcoin Miner

Paul West is the founder of Fumb Games, a mobile gaming studio that has earned over 10,000,000 downloads across all their games, including the 1 million downloads for their Lightning-enabled game Bitcoin Miner. In our conversation we spoke about the ways in which Paul’s team designs games, why games are the perfect venue for onboarding new Bitcoin users, and the dramatic impact of adding Lightning payments to Bitcoin Miner. → Fumb Games: https://linktr.ee/fumbgames Sponsors → Voltage: https://stacksats.how/voltage → Stakwork: https://stacksats.how/stakwork This show is a Lightning podcast. That means instead of asking for likes or shares, I ask for sats. The best way to show your support is to download Fountain from the App Store, load your wallet with some sats, and send them over the Lightning Network to kerooke@fountain.fm. → Fountain: https://www.fountain.fm/ → More Episodes: https://www.stacksats.how/podcast → Lightning Address: ⚡kerooke@fountain.fm → Nostr NIP-05: kr@stacker.news Links → Stack Sats: https://www.stacksats.how/ → Twitter: https://twitter.com/kerooke → Books: https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations → Bitcoin News: https://stacker.news/r/kr Timestamps 00:00 - Intro 02:34 - Paul West Intro 09:46 - Google and Facebook’s Evolving Views on Bitcoin 15:20 - How Paul’s Team Designs New Games 22:04 - When Should Bitcoin Payments Be Integrated in a Game? 27:31 - Why Fumb Games Chose Lightning Payments over Crypto Tokens 35:08 - Should Bitcoin Payments Be Inserted Into All Games? 41:01 - Is Gaming The Right Mechanism To Onboard New Bitcoiners? 53:25 - Challenges with Integrating Lightning Payments 57:57 - The Role of Identity in Preventing Spam and Bots 1:12:11 - The Lightning Round