{"id":56449,"date":"2020-07-31T00:45:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T00:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2019.dash.org\/?p=56449"},"modified":"2021-09-18T11:41:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-18T11:41:42","slug":"it-just-didnt-make","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dash.org\/news\/it-just-didnt-make\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It just didn&#8217;t make sense for us to incorporate any other form of cryptocurrency payment, as Dash had everything we needed.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: 'Yahoo Sans Finance', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"28\">Estimates indicate that by the end of 2021,\u00a0<a class=\"steem-keychain-checked\" href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/748044\/number-video-gamers-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">2.7 billion people<\/a>\u00a0will be regular players of video games. Stated another way, in the near future, gamers will make up more than one-third of humanity. More than one-third of humanity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"29\">When it comes to ripeness for blockchain technology, gamers are almost comically well-suited. They\u2019re already accustomed to in-game currencies, for starters, having an implicit understanding that digital tokens\/credits are useful for buying and selling things online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"30\">Additionally, they spend large swaths of time creating real economic value during gameplay \u2014 that is, value that other players are willing to pay real money for, like purchasable custom characters, weapons, and territories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"31\">And gamers are also the most hurt in the event of corporate or technical disruptions of a given game, standing to lose potentially years worth of in-game earnings that can\u2019t travel with them outside the game (imagine moving to Paris but being unable to trade in any of your existing money for euros?)<\/p>\n<div class=\"canvas-atom\" data-reactid=\"32\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"36\">These unique characteristics mean that one-third of the world\u2019s population is already primed for blockchain, a technology which (at least allegedly) can track, verify, store, and make globally transferable any and all in-game assets \u2014 complete with instant settlement, and for a fraction of a penny. Except, this hasn\u2019t happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"37\">An Embarrassing Track Record<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" data-reactid=\"38\">The gaming industry has not ignored blockchain. In fact, some of their biggest players have already adopted the technology, going out on a limb before their peers. And they got burned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"canvas-atom canvas-text Mb(1.0em) Mb(0)--sm Mt(0.8em)--sm\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 1em; color: #000000; font-family: 'Yahoo Sans Finance', 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #ffffff; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;\" data-reactid=\"39\">First there was Steam, an ultra-popular online distributor of over 34,000 games with 95 million active &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\"39\">Please read Full Article at:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Estimates indicate that by the end of 2021,\u00a02.7 billion people\u00a0will be regular players of video games. 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