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gaming on blockchain will absolutely work btw

chris and haseeb are both partially correct and incorrect crypto is not web 3.0, it is capitalism 2.0 i) blockchains are explicitly financial architecture this is not an opinion, this is objectively why they must work with economic incentives at the core level agreeing on information on a neutral protocol was already a solved problem before crypto (see: email) the unique addition of blockchains is that they allow consensus on information with monetary value, namely they solve the double spend problem so using blockchains for a system that does not require consensus on money is by definition inefficient this is also why those decentralized social protocols like nostr, bluesky, and farcaster for example don't actually use blockchains ii) since this is the case, it [currently] makes no sense to use blockchains for any app that requires 0 integrations with monetary value. but more on this in a sec. iii) as a result, the market will necessarily use blockchains for financialized apps iv) but there are two historical issues. a) regulation, b) scale crypto is not actually 18 years old, that's bitcoin you know how bitcoiners say: "bitcoin, not crypto", well the converse is also true. that is "crypto, not bitcoin" the downsides of draconian regulation on the creation of new products is obvious so I won't waste time but blockchains that scale for finance really have only been a thing for, maybe, 2 years, with solana finally solving a bunch of crippling issues since '24 and with regulation still pending v) which means that this is now, finally, the age where we onboard apps to use blockchains as their universal API for money and finance vi) ok and now this is where it gets interesting and where we get back to ii) in the prior state, it did not make sense for non-financial use case to blockchains due to the overhead however, as more users onboard, they also bring with them their socieconomic graphs and in parallel, blockchains have to provide infrastructure primitives to meet these demands this has the effect that such a non-financial protocol or app developer can reasonably consider a blockchain for their app state as an alternative since identity, PKI, etc are all solved at scale one good example of this is integrity of AI-generated shit technically, you do not need a blockchain for this, all you need is 1) PKI, 2) a key directory, 3) proof-of-time, 4) a database to store key revocations however, at that stage, due to scale and existing integrations, it is very likely that the blockchain is a more pragmatic solution with more favorable economics it's a bit like how javascript wasn't actually the best solution for the browser, but it worked, and enough people kept using it until it became irreplacable vii) which means that non-financial use-cases are still very much in play, but structurally require the financial use cases to become bigger first

No massive multiplayer online game can call itself a true MMO without social features. Here's the first of more to come: A live chat to interact with other players!