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Company Name: THNDR Games Founder: Desiree Dickerson, Jack Everitt, Greg Flor and Rafal Gawel Date Founded: Originally founded in 2019 | Re-launched in 2021 Location of Headquarters: London, UK with remote team members Amount of Bitcoin Held in Treasury: “Not enough” (said Dickerson jokingly) Number of Employees: 6 Website: https://www.thndr.games/ Public or Private? Private Desiree Dickerson believes that games are a powerful way to onboard people to Bitcoin. She posits that, in recent history, games have been used to get people accustomed to using new technologies. “They put games on the original PCs to get users familiar with a mouse,” Dickerson told Bitcoin Magazine. “This is similar to Snake and Nokia,” she added, explaining that the game Snake was added to early Nokia feature phones “to get users familiar with the Nokia handset.” Dickerson sees games playing a similar role when it comes to getting people used to using bitcoin on the Lightning Network. This is why, in 2021, she helped launch a revamped version of THNDR Games, a company that has developed a suite of mobile games through which users can win sats just for playing. And she was the perfect person for the job considering both her background as both a gamer and her experience in working with the Lightning Network. Dickerson’s History With Gaming And Lightning Dickerson has been gaming since she was a child. “I grew up gaming with my dad,” she recounted. “He had NES, and I grew up playing Duck Hunt with him.” While she’s been exposed to a variety of different games over the course of her life, as her dad had “every single gaming console,” she said that she currently thinks of herself as a “cozy gamer” and that she isn’t into more consuming (and frightening) games like HALO. “It just has…

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