Economics

ChainGuardians seeks to Transform the Gaming Industry with its Blockchain & Player-centric Economy

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Time Stamp: February 15, 2021 1:24 PM - Modified On: February 15, 2021 - Published By:
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ChainGuardians is a platform that combines traditional gaming concepts with blockchain technology to enable player-driven economies. Players can participate in the free-to-play Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT) mining platform and role playing game; both of which allow players to earn income, turning their time and energy into tangible rewards. The aim of ChainGuardians is to bring the NFT community an unprecedented gaming ecosystem founded upon competitive game play through chain analysis technology, advanced game economics which integrates players’ real life cryptocurrency and NFT holdings, and the experience of expandable and persistent multi-

Bitcoin’s Killer Application: “Skin In The Game”

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Time Stamp: January 5, 2021 10:37 AM - Modified On: January 5, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin has soared in 2020 and everyone is talking about the price. But I want to talk about how Bitcoin is actually being used and the new capabilities it enables.  Sure, bitcoin is the hardest form of money that exists and the best store of value. But it is also the most practical form of digital value that we have, as it is global, interoperable and programmable. So, what other use cases does Bitcoin enable? And what are the revolutionary new capabilities that people didn’t even know they needed Bitcoin

Extra Crunch roundup: A fistful of IPOs, Affirm’s Peloton problem, Zoom Apps and more

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Time Stamp: November 20, 2020 5:08 PM - Modified On: November 20, 2020 - Published By:
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DoorDash, Affirm, Roblox, Airbnb, C3.ai and Wish all filed to go public in recent days, which means some venture capitalists are having the best week of their lives. Tech companies that go public capture our imagination because they are literal happy endings. An Initial Public Offering is the promised land for startup pilgrims who may wander the desert for years seeking product-market fit. After all, the “I” in “ISO” stands for “incentive.” A flurry of new S-1s in a single week forced me to rearrange our editorial calendar, but I

Bungie Vet Says Destiny Deal With Activision Was “Bad From The Start”; Microsoft Almost Signed The Game

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Time Stamp: July 6, 2020 11:01 PM - Modified On: October 29, 2021 - Published By:
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Video game industry veteran Martin O'Donnell, who composed the music for Halo and was on Bungie's board of directors, has spoken very openly about the deal Bungie made with Activision and how it all fell apart. The long and short of it is that O'Donnell had a bad feeling about the deal for the Destiny series from the very beginning, but the whole story is like something out of a movie.Speaking to YouTuber HiddenXperia, O'Donnell first clarified that it was Bungie's seven members of the board of directors that collectively