LimeWire: Earn crypto with music “stealing”.

Over a browser application LimeWire sends its users back to the glorious 2000s – at least in front of the screen. When opening the game, users fall into pure nostalgia. Because: LimeWire mimics its iconic past from the Windows XP days, including the classic “Rolling Greens” aesthetic. Skilled players can even win something: LimeWire’s upcoming cryptocurrency (LMWR). How it works? Quite simply: “Illegal” downloading music, like so many users in the 2000s.

“The game is mainly a tool for us to get people aware of the new LimeWire in a fun way and to strengthen our community in the Web3 space,” LimeWire CEO Julian Zehetmayr told BTC-ECHO. “We’ve been thinking about building something like this for a while and now it was finally the right time as our platform relaunch and token sale were due.”

Earn crypto – how it works

The game simulates an old Windows operating system running LimeWire software. Players must enter their email address to participate. The rest is easy: search for songs from the early 2000s in the designated field, download the songs and collect points. But beware: LimeWire has provided for nostalgia. Some songs contain a virus that leads to immediate game termination – Game Over.

Both the songs and the virus are not real files. So there is no risk of computer failure or, in the worst case, police custody.

Players with the highest scores are promised crypto rewards in the form of LimeWire’s upcoming ERC-20 token (LMWR). The top 1,000 entrants will also receive “merch packs,” the company says. In a first attempt, BTC-ECHO editor Dominic Döllel achieved 170 points. The high score is around 28,450 points at the time of writing.

The LMWR public token sale is scheduled for next month. In the private presale, Kraken, Crypto.com and other venture capitalists have already invested $10.4 million, as reported data on the site show.

LimeWire: The New NFT Player

What helped people burn their own creations in the form of mix CDs in the early 2000s is now a new player on the crypto market: LimeWire announced the development of its own NFT exchange last year. Through a partnership with Universal, LimeWire has already brought Taylor Swift, U2 and Coldplay to the blockchain.

The original file-sharing platform shut down in 2010 after a federal court case for copyright infringement. The new LimeWire has no connection to the former platform. With the game, however, the NFT marketplace is going back to its roots.

If you are wallowing in nostalgia and want to download songs, you have until May 15th. By the way, aids are allowed. In addition to internet research, dusty Bravo Hits CDs should be particularly helpful.