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Remember Bigcoin? 

If you don’t, I don’t blame you. Its bubble popped fast. 

The Abstract-based crypto “mining” game saw a sudden surge of activity back in April, reaching a cumulative user count of nearly 70,000 according to some dashboards. 

Players had to buy a virtual room and spend the game’s token, BIG, to add passive BIG mining rigs. Those rigs take the form of pixelated computers, GPUs, animals like Pudgy Penguins, or other objects. The rigs earned players more BIG over time.

The original game loop was about earning BIG and expanding their facilities. To get a larger…

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