Mining is the homegrown, hands-on way to build up gold, but it is by no means the only way open to you. If you would rather not wait patiently for mine after mine to finish, you can buy gold outright with cryptocurrency. This is the deposit system, and it is worth knowing one genuinely comforting fact about it right from the start: the deposit system is run by the game itself, not handed off to some distant third-party payment processor you have never heard of. The game watches the blockchain directly and credits your gold on its own. It supports a wide range of coins, so there is a very good chance that a coin you already hold in your wallet is welcome here.
The whole system is built around one clever central idea, so let us name it clearly before we walk through the steps, because once you truly see it, everything else falls into place naturally. The idea is a unique payment amount. When you start a deposit, the game asks you to send a very precise figure of crypto, and the last few decimals of that figure are a secret tag that belongs to your deposit and yours alone, like nobody else's. That tiny tag is how the game knows, out of all the countless payments flowing across the blockchain at any moment, that this one particular payment is yours and meant for you. Keep that single idea in mind, and the steps below will feel entirely natural rather than fussy.
The deposit, step by step
- Go to the deposit page, pick the coin you want to pay with, and choose how much gold you want, expressed in dollars.
- The game shows you a receiving address to send crypto to, and an exact amount to send. Look closely at that amount: its last few decimals are the tag that uniquely identifies your deposit.
- From your own wallet, send that exact amount to the address. Not a rounded version, not close enough; the exact figure, decimals and all.
- A scanner now watches the blockchain on your behalf. Once your transfer reaches the number of confirmations that coin requires, your gold is credited to your balance automatically. You do not have to do anything more.
The price is locked the moment you start
Here is a detail that quietly protects you, and it is a genuinely kind one worth appreciating. Your gold is credited at the price that was locked in at the precise moment you opened the deposit. So even if the gold price happens to step to a new value the very next day, while your transfer is still slowly confirming on the chain, that does not change one bit what you finally receive. You get exactly the deal you agreed to when you started, no more and no less. That single rule removes a whole layer of worry from the experience: you are simply not racing the clock against a moving price, and you can let your transfer confirm in its own time.
A few practical limits round out the picture and keep things tidy. Each coin has a minimum and a maximum you can deposit, so a given coin will not let you go too small or too large in a single go. And an open invoice does not last forever waiting on you; if you start a deposit and then never pay it, it quietly expires after a while and closes itself with no harm done. If you simply change your mind before paying anything, you can cancel an invoice you have not yet paid. All of that is perfectly safe and ordinary to do, so there is no need to feel locked in the moment you click.
Let us slow right down and really understand the tag, because it is the one idea in this lesson that new players tend to find a little strange at first, and it is genuinely clever once it finally clicks into place. Out on a blockchain, money is flowing constantly between thousands upon thousands of wallets, and the receiving address the game gives you may not be unique to you and you alone. So how on earth does the game know that one particular incoming payment belongs to your deposit and not to somebody else's entirely? The answer is those last few decimals. By asking you to send a very precise figure, the game effectively stamps your payment with a private label that no other open invoice is using at that time. When a payment lands carrying exactly your label, the game confidently matches it to you and to no one else. That is precisely why the exactness is not fussiness for its own sake; the decimals are the whole identification system, the key to your lock.
It also helps to see how the deposit gently mirrors the mining you have already learned, because then it feels like a familiar old idea rather than a brand-new one to fear. Mining is the slow, homegrown way to gather gold: you spend materials, time and energy, and the gold trickles patiently out of the ground over many runs. A crypto deposit is the fast, direct way: you spend crypto and the gold simply appears in your balance once your transfer confirms. Both routes end in exactly the same happy place, your gold balance growing larger. One asks for patience and a working mine; the other asks only for a funded wallet and the discipline to send the exact amount you were given. Neither one is more legitimate or more honourable than the other; they are simply two different doors into the very same room.
Send the exact amount, and only cancel what you have not paid
Two warnings here are worth taking firmly to heart. First, the tag hidden in the amount is the only way the game matches your payment to your invoice, so you must send the exact figure shown, right down to the very last decimal, or it simply cannot be recognised as yours. Second, cancelling an invoice does not refund any crypto you have already sent; it merely closes an unpaid request and nothing more. So only ever cancel an invoice you have not paid. Have you already sent the crypto? Then let it confirm in peace, and do not cancel.