REAL MONEY
Real-money games — when the prize is money and when it is not
Real-money games are regulated when you bet. FieldHunters is not a betting product. You do not put a stake on a hole. The money, when there is money, is the contents of a chest or a posted hunt prize. Calling the whole game a real-money game would hide the half that is not money: artefacts, coins, outfits, coil charges.
Use this test. Can this number be sent to a Lightning wallet after an identity check? If yes, it is Treasures. If the number buys a coil and dies when the charges are gone, it is not money, even if you paid dollars or crypto to get it. The wallet page is where the withdrawable figure lives. The coin pile is not that page.
Two purses, and they do not mix
Coins come from selling artefacts to the Museum. They buy coils by the hole, outfits, and curios. They do not withdraw. Treasures are real bitcoin, credited when a sealed chest opens in the ground. Only Treasures can leave the game. Money you spend in the shop — card or crypto — buys the row you pressed. It does not turn into bitcoin, and it is not a deposit you can cash back out.
How a dig works
FieldHunters is one shared field in the browser. No download. You walk the Common Fields, the coil sings, you dig. Other hunters see the same spots. Several people can work one hole. The first to finish keeps the find. Dig time is the coil: bronze, the free one, takes fifty seconds; silver forty; gold twenty-five; mythic fifteen. Seeing a signal first does not mean you keep it.
Most holes are artefacts. Keep them, or sell duplicates to the Museum for coins. Now and then a hole is a sealed chest. What is inside is real bitcoin on your Treasures balance, shown in bitcoin at the rate of the moment. We do not publish the odds or the size of a chest. There is no wager and no entry fee. There is also no promise that a session pays.
Withdrawing
Treasures pay out over the Lightning Network, in bitcoin. The minimum is the bitcoin equivalent of ten US dollars at the moment you ask. You have to pass identity checks first. We pay the account we verified. If a rail fails, the balance stays until it can be sent. Coins, outfits, and unused coil charges do not withdraw. The longer split is Two purses.
Not a casino, not an investment
You do not stake a balance to dig. You do not deposit to cash out a multiple. Nothing here quotes an APR. A free hunter on bronze can open a chest; a paying hunter can finish holes faster and join the hunt. Neither is owed a return. If a page about "games that pay" promised a wage, it would be lying. This one describes a game where real bitcoin is sometimes in the hole, and says what is not in the hole.
The same split, written for people comparing casinos and gift-card sites, is games that pay real money.