[Sarien]

Doesn't this violate the minecraft ToS?

[ultimape]

I didn't see anything about paying for stuff. It seems to be run entirely by donation as far as I can tell. I think that means it kosher: https://mojang.com/2014/06/lets-talk-server-monetisation/

[ubernostrum]

They (BitQuest) advertise the "Stores" which apparently have "some incredible weapons and armor". And they are explicitly denominating in BTC and hooked up to a system for accepting BTC payments.

Both of which seem to fall afoul of the Mojang post.

[phaser]

We are not accepting payments nor selling the in-game currency thus this is not a pay-to-win game or anything outside Mojang's own recommendations for monetizing servers :D

[ultimape]

I didn't realize you could buy in-game currency with money. I thought it was a one-way process (mining in game -> bits) used to create a real world value for items in game.

[phaser]

You can't

[mryan]

They also appear to allow cashing-out the in-game currency, breaking another of Mojang's conditions.

[phaser]

Yes we run 100% on donations and in the future we want to get advertisement. That's the two recommendations the guys at Mojang for monetizing servers