There are at least 10 start-ups that already try to apply that same thinking, except “to all websites/apps” rather than just games.
None of them is locking in the market, because the market is by its nature decentralized.
And, because it’s decentralized, it’s fragmented, which means that it’s a hassle to use for most normal users – it’s harder for me to log into coinbase (or whatever,) generate some wallet, and then wait for some transaction to post and verify, than it is to just punch in a credit card number.
Having built such systems at two different businesses, I respectfully disagree. The main challenge is making sure that you avoid fraudulent actors (once there’s money, the sharks come swimming!) and making sure your system doesn’t suddenly somehow count as “gambling” for some reason. Bitcoin actually makes for less control of those problems than regular payment channels.
The PayPal or Square or Braintree or Paymentwall integrations are super simple to set up and gets you a large set of all payments that customers actually use. I see a lot of hard work and approximately zero upside in supporting this right now.
If you want to live on wishful thinking, that’s fine for you. Having dreams keeps you from being depressed about how hard it is to actually create real value in reality.
Another way of looking at it is that the “coins” (outside perhaps bitcoin) are me-too experiments that failed in the market.
Bitcoin has appeal to a variety of people, exactly because it sits outside the regular controls of the banking and governmental systems.
This is not necessarily a bad thing – there’s value in freedom! But, unfortunately, those who realize the most value in that freedom are those who are the least free in regular society, which generally are evildoers of various kinds (as per definition in society.)
What happens in real life is that the governments will want their control anyway, because of said evildoers, and then a real business that wants to play in real society has to choose between either accepting and using bitcoin under the regulatory framework that exists, or not use it at all. Given that bitcoin is such a small fraction of the legitimate economy, there’s just no real incentive to actually do that, other than as an interesting experiment.
Anyway, good luck on your project, and I wish you the best! And maybe in 5 years, you will show me how wrong I am when you sit on a pile of bitcoins worth thousands of dollars each, and I am stuck in the old, regulated, governed, society.