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Comment by throwaway_yy2Di

These aren't games, they're just random number generators. Things that hold peoples attention give the illusion of more depth than P(payoff).

The Bitcoin protocol already has a blockchain-validated (non-Turing) scripting language. You could probably write genuinely interesting games in it, that are financially self-enforcing, without any new protocol needed.

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Script

(Digression: are there any technically-interesting protocols built on top of BTC script validation?)

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