what's Citadel Arcade?
Citadel Arcade is a competitive gaming platform that revives simple video games using Bitcoin's Lightning Network for payments and Nostr for decentralized leaderboards. Players pay 100 sats per game session in weekly cycles featuring titles like Citadel Run (endless runner) and Citadel War (tower defense), with maps changing weekly. Leaderboards display participants' Nostr profile pictures under their names, enabling zaps to top scorers and building community through friendly rivalry. Curated by Bitcoin advocate Matt Odell, it positions itself as the headquarters of the Citadel Gaming Universe, pulling score data directly from the Nostr network for high-performance, decentralized game states. Bitcoin serves as the core glue, providing programmable, permissionless payments without traditional monetization like ads.
Citadel Arcade features simple 100-sat games, a Lightning leaderboard, and allows zapping top players.
Launched as a project featuring simple video games with 100 sats per play and a weekly Lightning leaderboard where players can zap the first-place holder.