Providing online services enabling physically remote players of electronic games to communicate with selected players, namely, providing an online forum for discussing computer games and providing an online forum for trading goods for use in computer games; online access to computer networks, telecommunication services via computer databases, the internet, online bulletin boards, and electronic sites featuring virtual worlds, servers, and libraries of text, graphics and audio-visual and multimedia information and entertainment; entertainment services, customer loyalty services and customer club services for promotion of video and computer games; video games, computer games, electronic alternate reality games via the internet, electronic and non-electronic gaming strategy award programs; incentive award programs for customers through the distribution of prizes, awards, and promotional items, all for the purpose of promoting the sale of goods and services of others by means of contests and incentive award programs utilizing cryptography and blockchain technology