BitCraft: Uncovering the Underground Goldrush

The future of finance is no longer in the markets, it’s now down in the mines; and that mine is made up of 8-bit blocks.  Since last fall the emerging crypto market has been thrown into absolute chaos upon the discovery that Bitcoin was discovered in the far reaches of gaming powerhouse Mojang’s billion dollar game, Minecraft.

“It really came as a complete shock to me,” says 14 year old veteran Minecrafter, Connor Smith from Anaheim.  “One day I was in the far reaches of my strip mine, somewhere near negative seven million x, and positive twelve million z blocks from spawn, and there sitting inside of an obsidian block, was a bitcoin symbol.” 

Gaming giant Mojang, has been baffled themselves, spokesman Jarn Goonelsson says, “We really aren’t sure how this happened, we didn’t even know that Bitcoin was a naturally occurring substance in life, let alone in our game.” 

Since last October, millions of new players have flocked to download the game not only for the novelty of open world exploration and dragon slaying, but for the chance at millions in cryptocurrencies. 

Connor Smith has been diligently working since last October when he made the first discovery and has found a total of 3 Bitcoin, netting the teenager over $150,000 in the last 6 months.  Connor says he intends to fund his college career with his expansive mine operation.  The future looks bright underground, even if the sun isn’t, where the riches of the future are to be found.