*Live Action Role Play
- About the Game
- Where to Start
- Instructor Tutorial Videos
- Geyser Campaign to Build 50 LARP Gamesets
- Past LARPs
The Bitcoin LARP is designed for 12 to 36 players, divided into 6 groups. It typically runs for 90m to 2hrs, depending on the group size and experience level.
The game has been played at bitcoin conferences and meetups world-wide, and is a fantastic yet challenging way to really understand what is happening on the bitcoin network.
There are several phases of the game, each one builds on the previous.
By the end, the group should have walked through:
- inspecting the contents of a bitcoin-core node
- validating a bitcoin transaction
- writing a bitcoin transaction
- building a peer to peer network
- exchanging messages over a peer to peer network
- building block templates
- mining for new blocks
- validating bitcoin blocks
The bitcoin LARP was designed by @niftynei, @base58btc's lead instructor and longtime Lightning protocol engineer.
So you want to run a bitcoin LARP? You've come to the right place.
First you'll need the materials for the gameset. We've put this over in the BOM, which is short for Bill of Materials.
Once you've collected and assembled everything you need, you'll be ready to play your first game.
Follow the instructions in the docs folder to setup and play.
You can also follow the instructor tutorial videos below.
FIXME: make instructor tutorial videos
We're running a Geyser campaign to build and distribute 50 LARP gamesets for Bitcoin communities and classrooms around the world.
Help us reach our funding goal and spread the Bitcoin LARP into classrooms and communities around the world!
Donate to our campaign here: Geyser Fund
If you're a community organizer or educator, you can apply to receive one of these kits here: Typeform.
Here's some videos and images from past LARPs!
- At TABConf, 2021
- A Promo Video Recorded in Houston, 2022
- GIF of a LARP run in Italy, Oct 2023