Million on Mars is a blockchain game that simulates a Mars colony.
Million on Mars is a blockchain game that simulates a Mars colony.
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Million on Mars raises $3.5M for blockchain-based space sim

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Million on Mars has raised $3.5 million to bolster its blockchain-based space simulation about how the human race could one day colonize the Red Planet.

Erik Bethke, the CEO of Million on Mars, is unsurprisingly a Mars geek. He really hopes that Mars will one day have a population of a million people, and his game is all about simulating how such a thing could happen.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.