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@caohuak @silverpill Well, to be honest, that crypto stuff doesn't have its bad rep entirely undeservedly. It appears to be used as a cash grab or for get-rick-quick schemes more often than not.
The massive gambling with the big cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum that causes both to be highly volatile.
Gigantic Ethereum mining farms with countless high-end graphics cards that eat up more electricity than a bigger town, often even fossil or nuclear energy because there simply isn't enough renewable energy available where they're located.
NFT hypes. Masses of NFTs that were procedurally generated and sold for insane amounts of money. See Bored Apes. They've made a few people very rich with next to zero effort. Others have lost a lot of money because these NFTs are literally absolutely worthless today.
And this is a field that I'm pretty familiar with: The Metaverse. Mind you, I'm not talking about Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. That isn't the Metaverse. I'm not talking about "the Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Meta Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Facebook Metaverse" a.k.a. "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" either which, by the way, is actually named Horizon.
No, I'm talking about cryptobros jumping upon the Metaverse bandwagon, hoping to squeeze some money out of it.
The blueprint of this all has to be a virtual world named Decentraland which was opened in February, 2020, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused real-life social interaction to grind to a complete halt and made virtual worlds the more popular.
In fact, it was a crypto platform before it became a virtual world. In 2017 already, its own cryptocurrency MANA, which is on the Ethereum blockchain, was first traded to raise money to get the world itself started. And even as a virtual world, it's a crypto platform because Decentraland is pretty much all about minting and selling NFTs.
Part of its concept is that deeds to parcels of land are minted as NFTs and then sold. And these parcels aren't even that big. Better yet, they were sold before they even existed as actual virtual land. Basically, Decentraland sold deeds to something that they yet had to make. But they got enough customers to bite, including big fashion brands, but also real-estate companies that scooped up land to sell it with a big profit.
Users, especially right-wing extremists, created avatars with slurs for names just to mint them as NFTs and sell them for a fortune. Nothing was done against it. I mean, the more NFTs were sold for MANA, the more MANA was traded, the more volatile it became, the higher profits one could make by trading it.
Decentraland advertises itself as "the first decentralised Metaverse". This is nonsense. Yes, it's "decentralised" in the sense that MANA is not running on the Bitcoin blockchain. Yes, it's also "decentralised" in the sense of being governed by a DAO.
But the virtual world system itself is a centralised, monolithic silo owned and operated by one and the same entity. The actual "first decentralised Metaverse" is made up of the worlds based on OpenSimulator from as early as 2007. This, by the way, is where I regularly am.
It's every bit as decentralised as any Fediverse software out there. As in, you can have an avatar in one world and teleport to another world, on another server, under another domain, owned and operated by other people, appearance, inventory and all. As in, the five developers, including only one actual coder, don't own anything beyond their own patches of land.
Another aspect that makes blatantly clear just how Decentraland is a crypto cash grab more than anything else: The actual world itself is buggy as hell. And precious little is done to fix these bugs. In fact, they don't even seem to matter because Decentraland is not about spending time in-world, which is why it's rather deserted and empty, but about minting, selling and buying NFTs.
As COVID brought with itself a virtual world boom from which even Second Life could profit, crypto-based virtual world started spreading. For example, The Sandbox had already been bought out, and it came back in March as a crypto-based world.
Hundreds of virtual worlds were at least announced in the early 2020s, all copying Decentraland's concept of minting deeds to virtual land as NFTs, backed by nothing more than an announcement and a promise, before even getting started with the actual virtual world. The latter was to be quickly and cheaply cobbled together using some 3-D game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine, neither of which is really fit for virtual worlds in which users can build stuff.
The best outcome was an actual virtual world which was barely in a functional state. It only existed for there to be something backing the NFTs. Oftentimes, the financial assets behind the world were kept in cryptocurrencies, hoping that they rise in value which would create more financial assets out of nothing. But when the cryptocurrency crashed, it became impossible to pay for the operation of the world or whatever employees it had. Crypto crashes kept killing crypto-based worlds left and right. It didn't help that most crypto-based virtual worlds used existing cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin.
In many other cases, however, there never was an actual virtual world to begin with. They never got it running. So their customers were sitting their with their expensive NFT land deeds and waiting for the actual land to be made. The longer it took for an announced virtual world to materialise, the harder it got to sell more NFT land deeds because the more unlikely it became that the actual land would ever exist. If plummeting land sales didn't put an end to the endeavour, the next crypto crash did.
I think there were even scammers among these cryptobros. They, too, announced a hot new crypto-based virtual world. They, too, started selling land deeds as NFTs. But they never had the intention to actually create and launch a virtual world. They sold shit-tons of NFTs for shit-tons of crypto money. Then they waited for the cryptocurrency to soar. If they were smart, they traded it all for millions in fiat money and made away with it to someplace offshore. If they weren't, if they wanted to keep on gambling, they, too, lost almost everything in a crypto crash.
Lastly: Around 2021/2022, many cryptobros staunchly insisted in virtual worlds absolutely requiring a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs for everything. According to them, it's technologically absolutely impossible to build virtual worlds without even only one of these. This was to keep people from getting interested (and invested) in non-crypto virtual worlds.
As a matter of fact, however, there are lots of virtual worlds that don't use a blockchain, that don't have a cryptocurrency, that don't have NFTs for anything. Second Life doesn't, and it never has since its launch in 2002. And Second Life still generates more revenue per user and month than Facebook, legally even.
OpenSim doesn't anywhere. Sansar didn't. High Fidelity didn't. Vircadia doesn't. Overte doesn't. Roblox doesn't. VRChat doesn't. Rec Room didn't. (Formerly Mozilla) Hubs doesn't. Horizon doesn't. Just to name a few. Some of these don't have any in-world payment system at all.
All these blatant lies, the total neglect of the actual virtual worlds and their misuse as a money printer don't really make me trust in crypto. Neither do the rampant gambling and the volatility.
Oh, and don't get me started about land prices in Decentraland vs Second Life vs OpenSim.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #VirtualWorlds #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #Decentraland #TheSandbox #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFT #NFTs #Cryptobros #Cryptomining #CryptoScam #CryptoCrash #NFTCrash -
@caohuak @silverpill Well, to be honest, that crypto stuff doesn't have its bad rep entirely undeservedly. It appears to be used as a cash grab or for get-rick-quick schemes more often than not.
The massive gambling with the big cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum that causes both to be highly volatile.
Gigantic Ethereum mining farms with countless high-end graphics cards that eat up more electricity than a bigger town, often even fossil or nuclear energy because there simply isn't enough renewable energy available where they're located.
NFT hypes. Masses of NFTs that were procedurally generated and sold for insane amounts of money. See Bored Apes. They've made a few people very rich with next to zero effort. Others have lost a lot of money because these NFTs are literally absolutely worthless today.
And this is a field that I'm pretty familiar with: The Metaverse. Mind you, I'm not talking about Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. That isn't the Metaverse. I'm not talking about "the Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Meta Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Facebook Metaverse" a.k.a. "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" either which, by the way, is actually named Horizon.
No, I'm talking about cryptobros jumping upon the Metaverse bandwagon, hoping to squeeze some money out of it.
The blueprint of this all has to be a virtual world named Decentraland which was opened in February, 2020, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused real-life social interaction to grind to a complete halt and made virtual worlds the more popular.
In fact, it was a crypto platform before it became a virtual world. In 2017 already, its own cryptocurrency MANA, which is on the Ethereum blockchain, was first traded to raise money to get the world itself started. And even as a virtual world, it's a crypto platform because Decentraland is pretty much all about minting and selling NFTs.
Part of its concept is that deeds to parcels of land are minted as NFTs and then sold. And these parcels aren't even that big. Better yet, they were sold before they even existed as actual virtual land. Basically, Decentraland sold deeds to something that they yet had to make. But they got enough customers to bite, including big fashion brands, but also real-estate companies that scooped up land to sell it with a big profit.
Users, especially right-wing extremists, created avatars with slurs for names just to mint them as NFTs and sell them for a fortune. Nothing was done against it. I mean, the more NFTs were sold for MANA, the more MANA was traded, the more volatile it became, the higher profits one could make by trading it.
Decentraland advertises itself as "the first decentralised Metaverse". This is nonsense. Yes, it's "decentralised" in the sense that MANA is not running on the Bitcoin blockchain. Yes, it's also "decentralised" in the sense of being governed by a DAO.
But the virtual world system itself is a centralised, monolithic silo owned and operated by one and the same entity. The actual "first decentralised Metaverse" is made up of the worlds based on OpenSimulator from as early as 2007. This, by the way, is where I regularly am.
It's every bit as decentralised as any Fediverse software out there. As in, you can have an avatar in one world and teleport to another world, on another server, under another domain, owned and operated by other people, appearance, inventory and all. As in, the five developers, including only one actual coder, don't own anything beyond their own patches of land.
Another aspect that makes blatantly clear just how Decentraland is a crypto cash grab more than anything else: The actual world itself is buggy as hell. And precious little is done to fix these bugs. In fact, they don't even seem to matter because Decentraland is not about spending time in-world, which is why it's rather deserted and empty, but about minting, selling and buying NFTs.
As COVID brought with itself a virtual world boom from which even Second Life could profit, crypto-based virtual world started spreading. For example, The Sandbox had already been bought out, and it came back in March as a crypto-based world.
Hundreds of virtual worlds were at least announced in the early 2020s, all copying Decentraland's concept of minting deeds to virtual land as NFTs, backed by nothing more than an announcement and a promise, before even getting started with the actual virtual world. The latter was to be quickly and cheaply cobbled together using some 3-D game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine, neither of which is really fit for virtual worlds in which users can build stuff.
The best outcome was an actual virtual world which was barely in a functional state. It only existed for there to be something backing the NFTs. Oftentimes, the financial assets behind the world were kept in cryptocurrencies, hoping that they rise in value which would create more financial assets out of nothing. But when the cryptocurrency crashed, it became impossible to pay for the operation of the world or whatever employees it had. Crypto crashes kept killing crypto-based worlds left and right. It didn't help that most crypto-based virtual worlds used existing cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin.
In many other cases, however, there never was an actual virtual world to begin with. They never got it running. So their customers were sitting their with their expensive NFT land deeds and waiting for the actual land to be made. The longer it took for an announced virtual world to materialise, the harder it got to sell more NFT land deeds because the more unlikely it became that the actual land would ever exist. If plummeting land sales didn't put an end to the endeavour, the next crypto crash did.
I think there were even scammers among these cryptobros. They, too, announced a hot new crypto-based virtual world. They, too, started selling land deeds as NFTs. But they never had the intention to actually create and launch a virtual world. They sold shit-tons of NFTs for shit-tons of crypto money. Then they waited for the cryptocurrency to soar. If they were smart, they traded it all for millions in fiat money and made away with it to someplace offshore. If they weren't, if they wanted to keep on gambling, they, too, lost almost everything in a crypto crash.
Lastly: Around 2021/2022, many cryptobros staunchly insisted in virtual worlds absolutely requiring a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs for everything. According to them, it's technologically absolutely impossible to build virtual worlds without even only one of these. This was to keep people from getting interested (and invested) in non-crypto virtual worlds.
As a matter of fact, however, there are lots of virtual worlds that don't use a blockchain, that don't have a cryptocurrency, that don't have NFTs for anything. Second Life doesn't, and it never has since its launch in 2002. And Second Life still generates more revenue per user and month than Facebook, legally even.
OpenSim doesn't anywhere. Sansar didn't. High Fidelity didn't. Vircadia doesn't. Overte doesn't. Roblox doesn't. VRChat doesn't. Rec Room didn't. (Formerly Mozilla) Hubs doesn't. Horizon doesn't. Just to name a few. Some of these don't have any in-world payment system at all.
All these blatant lies, the total neglect of the actual virtual worlds and their misuse as a money printer don't really make me trust in crypto. Neither do the rampant gambling and the volatility.
Oh, and don't get me started about land prices in Decentraland vs Second Life vs OpenSim.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #VirtualWorlds #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #Decentraland #TheSandbox #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFT #NFTs #Cryptobros #Cryptomining #CryptoScam #CryptoCrash #NFTCrash -
@caohuak @silverpill Well, to be honest, that crypto stuff doesn't have its bad rep entirely undeservedly. It appears to be used as a cash grab or for get-rick-quick schemes more often than not.
The massive gambling with the big cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum that causes both to be highly volatile.
Gigantic Ethereum mining farms with countless high-end graphics cards that eat up more electricity than a bigger town, often even fossil or nuclear energy because there simply isn't enough renewable energy available where they're located.
NFT hypes. Masses of NFTs that were procedurally generated and sold for insane amounts of money. See Bored Apes. They've made a few people very rich with next to zero effort. Others have lost a lot of money because these NFTs are literally absolutely worthless today.
And this is a field that I'm pretty familiar with: The Metaverse. Mind you, I'm not talking about Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. That isn't the Metaverse. I'm not talking about "the Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Meta Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Facebook Metaverse" a.k.a. "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" either which, by the way, is actually named Horizon.
No, I'm talking about cryptobros jumping upon the Metaverse bandwagon, hoping to squeeze some money out of it.
The blueprint of this all has to be a virtual world named Decentraland which was opened in February, 2020, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused real-life social interaction to grind to a complete halt and made virtual worlds the more popular.
In fact, it was a crypto platform before it became a virtual world. In 2017 already, its own cryptocurrency MANA, which is on the Ethereum blockchain, was first traded to raise money to get the world itself started. And even as a virtual world, it's a crypto platform because Decentraland is pretty much all about minting and selling NFTs.
Part of its concept is that deeds to parcels of land are minted as NFTs and then sold. And these parcels aren't even that big. Better yet, they were sold before they even existed as actual virtual land. Basically, Decentraland sold deeds to something that they yet had to make. But they got enough customers to bite, including big fashion brands, but also real-estate companies that scooped up land to sell it with a big profit.
Users, especially right-wing extremists, created avatars with slurs for names just to mint them as NFTs and sell them for a fortune. Nothing was done against it. I mean, the more NFTs were sold for MANA, the more MANA was traded, the more volatile it became, the higher profits one could make by trading it.
Decentraland advertises itself as "the first decentralised Metaverse". This is nonsense. Yes, it's "decentralised" in the sense that MANA is not running on the Bitcoin blockchain. Yes, it's also "decentralised" in the sense of being governed by a DAO.
But the virtual world system itself is a centralised, monolithic silo owned and operated by one and the same entity. The actual "first decentralised Metaverse" is made up of the worlds based on OpenSimulator from as early as 2007. This, by the way, is where I regularly am.
It's every bit as decentralised as any Fediverse software out there. As in, you can have an avatar in one world and teleport to another world, on another server, under another domain, owned and operated by other people, appearance, inventory and all. As in, the five developers, including only one actual coder, don't own anything beyond their own patches of land.
Another aspect that makes blatantly clear just how Decentraland is a crypto cash grab more than anything else: The actual world itself is buggy as hell. And precious little is done to fix these bugs. In fact, they don't even seem to matter because Decentraland is not about spending time in-world, which is why it's rather deserted and empty, but about minting, selling and buying NFTs.
As COVID brought with itself a virtual world boom from which even Second Life could profit, crypto-based virtual world started spreading. For example, The Sandbox had already been bought out, and it came back in March as a crypto-based world.
Hundreds of virtual worlds were at least announced in the early 2020s, all copying Decentraland's concept of minting deeds to virtual land as NFTs, backed by nothing more than an announcement and a promise, before even getting started with the actual virtual world. The latter was to be quickly and cheaply cobbled together using some 3-D game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine, neither of which is really fit for virtual worlds in which users can build stuff.
The best outcome was an actual virtual world which was barely in a functional state. It only existed for there to be something backing the NFTs. Oftentimes, the financial assets behind the world were kept in cryptocurrencies, hoping that they rise in value which would create more financial assets out of nothing. But when the cryptocurrency crashed, it became impossible to pay for the operation of the world or whatever employees it had. Crypto crashes kept killing crypto-based worlds left and right. It didn't help that most crypto-based virtual worlds used existing cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin.
In many other cases, however, there never was an actual virtual world to begin with. They never got it running. So their customers were sitting their with their expensive NFT land deeds and waiting for the actual land to be made. The longer it took for an announced virtual world to materialise, the harder it got to sell more NFT land deeds because the more unlikely it became that the actual land would ever exist. If plummeting land sales didn't put an end to the endeavour, the next crypto crash did.
I think there were even scammers among these cryptobros. They, too, announced a hot new crypto-based virtual world. They, too, started selling land deeds as NFTs. But they never had the intention to actually create and launch a virtual world. They sold shit-tons of NFTs for shit-tons of crypto money. Then they waited for the cryptocurrency to soar. If they were smart, they traded it all for millions in fiat money and made away with it to someplace offshore. If they weren't, if they wanted to keep on gambling, they, too, lost almost everything in a crypto crash.
Lastly: Around 2021/2022, many cryptobros staunchly insisted in virtual worlds absolutely requiring a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs for everything. According to them, it's technologically absolutely impossible to build virtual worlds without even only one of these. This was to keep people from getting interested (and invested) in non-crypto virtual worlds.
As a matter of fact, however, there are lots of virtual worlds that don't use a blockchain, that don't have a cryptocurrency, that don't have NFTs for anything. Second Life doesn't, and it never has since its launch in 2002. And Second Life still generates more revenue per user and month than Facebook, legally even.
OpenSim doesn't anywhere. Sansar didn't. High Fidelity didn't. Vircadia doesn't. Overte doesn't. Roblox doesn't. VRChat doesn't. Rec Room didn't. (Formerly Mozilla) Hubs doesn't. Horizon doesn't. Just to name a few. Some of these don't have any in-world payment system at all.
All these blatant lies, the total neglect of the actual virtual worlds and their misuse as a money printer don't really make me trust in crypto. Neither do the rampant gambling and the volatility.
Oh, and don't get me started about land prices in Decentraland vs Second Life vs OpenSim.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #VirtualWorlds #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #Decentraland #TheSandbox #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFT #NFTs #Cryptobros #Cryptomining #CryptoScam #CryptoCrash #NFTCrash -
@caohuak @silverpill Well, to be honest, that crypto stuff doesn't have its bad rep entirely undeservedly. It appears to be used as a cash grab or for get-rick-quick schemes more often than not.
The massive gambling with the big cryptocurrencies Bitcoin and Ethereum that causes both to be highly volatile.
Gigantic Ethereum mining farms with countless high-end graphics cards that eat up more electricity than a bigger town, often even fossil or nuclear energy because there simply isn't enough renewable energy available where they're located.
NFT hypes. Masses of NFTs that were procedurally generated and sold for insane amounts of money. See Bored Apes. They've made a few people very rich with next to zero effort. Others have lost a lot of money because these NFTs are literally absolutely worthless today.
And this is a field that I'm pretty familiar with: The Metaverse. Mind you, I'm not talking about Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads. That isn't the Metaverse. I'm not talking about "the Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Meta Metaverse" a.k.a. "the Facebook Metaverse" a.k.a. "Zuckerberg's Metaverse" either which, by the way, is actually named Horizon.
No, I'm talking about cryptobros jumping upon the Metaverse bandwagon, hoping to squeeze some money out of it.
The blueprint of this all has to be a virtual world named Decentraland which was opened in February, 2020, just in time for the COVID-19 pandemic that caused real-life social interaction to grind to a complete halt and made virtual worlds the more popular.
In fact, it was a crypto platform before it became a virtual world. In 2017 already, its own cryptocurrency MANA, which is on the Ethereum blockchain, was first traded to raise money to get the world itself started. And even as a virtual world, it's a crypto platform because Decentraland is pretty much all about minting and selling NFTs.
Part of its concept is that deeds to parcels of land are minted as NFTs and then sold. And these parcels aren't even that big. Better yet, they were sold before they even existed as actual virtual land. Basically, Decentraland sold deeds to something that they yet had to make. But they got enough customers to bite, including big fashion brands, but also real-estate companies that scooped up land to sell it with a big profit.
Users, especially right-wing extremists, created avatars with slurs for names just to mint them as NFTs and sell them for a fortune. Nothing was done against it. I mean, the more NFTs were sold for MANA, the more MANA was traded, the more volatile it became, the higher profits one could make by trading it.
Decentraland advertises itself as "the first decentralised Metaverse". This is nonsense. Yes, it's "decentralised" in the sense that MANA is not running on the Bitcoin blockchain. Yes, it's also "decentralised" in the sense of being governed by a DAO.
But the virtual world system itself is a centralised, monolithic silo owned and operated by one and the same entity. The actual "first decentralised Metaverse" is made up of the worlds based on OpenSimulator from as early as 2007. This, by the way, is where I regularly am.
It's every bit as decentralised as any Fediverse software out there. As in, you can have an avatar in one world and teleport to another world, on another server, under another domain, owned and operated by other people, appearance, inventory and all. As in, the five developers, including only one actual coder, don't own anything beyond their own patches of land.
Another aspect that makes blatantly clear just how Decentraland is a crypto cash grab more than anything else: The actual world itself is buggy as hell. And precious little is done to fix these bugs. In fact, they don't even seem to matter because Decentraland is not about spending time in-world, which is why it's rather deserted and empty, but about minting, selling and buying NFTs.
As COVID brought with itself a virtual world boom from which even Second Life could profit, crypto-based virtual world started spreading. For example, The Sandbox had already been bought out, and it came back in March as a crypto-based world.
Hundreds of virtual worlds were at least announced in the early 2020s, all copying Decentraland's concept of minting deeds to virtual land as NFTs, backed by nothing more than an announcement and a promise, before even getting started with the actual virtual world. The latter was to be quickly and cheaply cobbled together using some 3-D game engine like Unity or Unreal Engine, neither of which is really fit for virtual worlds in which users can build stuff.
The best outcome was an actual virtual world which was barely in a functional state. It only existed for there to be something backing the NFTs. Oftentimes, the financial assets behind the world were kept in cryptocurrencies, hoping that they rise in value which would create more financial assets out of nothing. But when the cryptocurrency crashed, it became impossible to pay for the operation of the world or whatever employees it had. Crypto crashes kept killing crypto-based worlds left and right. It didn't help that most crypto-based virtual worlds used existing cryptocurrencies like Dogecoin.
In many other cases, however, there never was an actual virtual world to begin with. They never got it running. So their customers were sitting their with their expensive NFT land deeds and waiting for the actual land to be made. The longer it took for an announced virtual world to materialise, the harder it got to sell more NFT land deeds because the more unlikely it became that the actual land would ever exist. If plummeting land sales didn't put an end to the endeavour, the next crypto crash did.
I think there were even scammers among these cryptobros. They, too, announced a hot new crypto-based virtual world. They, too, started selling land deeds as NFTs. But they never had the intention to actually create and launch a virtual world. They sold shit-tons of NFTs for shit-tons of crypto money. Then they waited for the cryptocurrency to soar. If they were smart, they traded it all for millions in fiat money and made away with it to someplace offshore. If they weren't, if they wanted to keep on gambling, they, too, lost almost everything in a crypto crash.
Lastly: Around 2021/2022, many cryptobros staunchly insisted in virtual worlds absolutely requiring a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs for everything. According to them, it's technologically absolutely impossible to build virtual worlds without even only one of these. This was to keep people from getting interested (and invested) in non-crypto virtual worlds.
As a matter of fact, however, there are lots of virtual worlds that don't use a blockchain, that don't have a cryptocurrency, that don't have NFTs for anything. Second Life doesn't, and it never has since its launch in 2002. And Second Life still generates more revenue per user and month than Facebook, legally even.
OpenSim doesn't anywhere. Sansar didn't. High Fidelity didn't. Vircadia doesn't. Overte doesn't. Roblox doesn't. VRChat doesn't. Rec Room didn't. (Formerly Mozilla) Hubs doesn't. Horizon doesn't. Just to name a few. Some of these don't have any in-world payment system at all.
All these blatant lies, the total neglect of the actual virtual worlds and their misuse as a money printer don't really make me trust in crypto. Neither do the rampant gambling and the volatility.
Oh, and don't get me started about land prices in Decentraland vs Second Life vs OpenSim.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #VirtualWorlds #Metaverse #TheMetaverse #Decentraland #TheSandbox #Blockchain #Crypto #Cryptocurrency #Cryptocurrencies #NFT #NFTs #Cryptobros #Cryptomining #CryptoScam #CryptoCrash #NFTCrash -
💥 BREAKING: The Iran war has now cost Americans over $10 BILLION — and counting. So much for DOGE. 💸🪙 #TrumpWatch #IranWar #USDebt #CryptoCrash www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
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💥 BREAKING: The Iran war has now cost Americans over $10 BILLION — and counting. So much for DOGE. 💸🪙 #TrumpWatch #IranWar #USDebt #CryptoCrash www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
US operations against Iran rac... -
💥 BREAKING: The Iran war has now cost Americans over $10 BILLION — and counting. So much for DOGE. 💸🪙 #TrumpWatch #IranWar #USDebt #CryptoCrash www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
US operations against Iran rac... -
💥 BREAKING: The Iran war has now cost Americans over $10 BILLION — and counting. So much for DOGE. 💸🪙 #TrumpWatch #IranWar #USDebt #CryptoCrash www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
US operations against Iran rac... -
💥 BREAKING: The Iran war has now cost Americans over $10 BILLION — and counting. So much for DOGE. 💸🪙 #TrumpWatch #IranWar #USDebt #CryptoCrash www.aa.com.tr/en/americas/...
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The peeps at CoinGecko report that more than half of all crypto tokens created have already failed.
In 2025, roughly 11.6 million tokens went inactive, accounting for 86.3% of all crypto project failures recorded over the five-year period. They suggest that "broken incentives" are the chief reason for the collapse. https://www.techspot.com/news/110977-data-shows-half-all-crypto-tokens-have-gone.html #Crypto #CryptoCurrencies #Tokens #DigitalAssets #CryptoCrash #BlockChain
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Bitcoin slid nearly 30% after hitting record highs, triggered by the biggest crypto liquidation ever but history shows these drops are part of normal market cycles, not the end of crypto.
#Bitcoin #CryptoCrash #CryptoMarket #BTC #Blockchain #Investing #MarketUpdate #Volatility #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-pullback-market-cycle-analysis/
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Bitcoin slid nearly 30% after hitting record highs, triggered by the biggest crypto liquidation ever but history shows these drops are part of normal market cycles, not the end of crypto.
#Bitcoin #CryptoCrash #CryptoMarket #BTC #Blockchain #Investing #MarketUpdate #Volatility #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-pullback-market-cycle-analysis/
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Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash
Trump crypto empire falls faster than bitcoin
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Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash
Trump crypto empire falls faster than bitcoin
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Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash
Trump crypto empire falls faster than bitcoin
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Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash
Trump crypto empire falls faster than bitcoin
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Trump Family’s Crypto Empire Collapses: Nearly $1 Billion Wiped Out as World Liberty and Memecoins Crash
Trump crypto empire falls faster than bitcoin
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Bitcoin fell below $86K on Dec 1, 2025, triggering over $600M in liquidations as thin liquidity and heavy leverage sparked a sharp crypto sell-off. Ether slid to ~$2,840, pushing the global market cap under $3T. Analysts eye $80K support, with volatility expected to stay high until macro clarity and ETF flows improve.
#Bitcoin #CryptoCrash #BTC #Ethereum #CryptoMarket #Liquidations #CryptoNews #TECHi
Read more details here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-crashes-below-86000-crypto-market-liquidations/
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Bitcoin fell below $86K on Dec 1, 2025, triggering over $600M in liquidations as thin liquidity and heavy leverage sparked a sharp crypto sell-off. Ether slid to ~$2,840, pushing the global market cap under $3T. Analysts eye $80K support, with volatility expected to stay high until macro clarity and ETF flows improve.
#Bitcoin #CryptoCrash #BTC #Ethereum #CryptoMarket #Liquidations #CryptoNews #TECHi
Read more details here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-crashes-below-86000-crypto-market-liquidations/
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Global crypto market loses over $1 trillion in six weeks — steep drawdown as investors pull out, wiping out most of 2025 gains.
#CryptoCrash #Bitcoin #MarketSelloff #CryptoWinter #RiskAssets
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Paul Krugman's sharp analysis questions if Bitcoin's crash signals Trump's fading power. He explores how this crypto, seen as a cult, surged with President Trump’s rise and now tumbles amid his political setbacks. Read more on why the "Trump trade" is unraveling: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling #CryptoCrash #TrumpTrade #Bitcoin #PaulKrugman
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Paul Krugman's sharp analysis questions if Bitcoin's crash signals Trump's fading power. He explores how this crypto, seen as a cult, surged with President Trump’s rise and now tumbles amid his political setbacks. Read more on why the "Trump trade" is unraveling: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling #CryptoCrash #TrumpTrade #Bitcoin #PaulKrugman
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Paul Krugman's sharp analysis questions if Bitcoin's crash signals Trump's fading power. He explores how this crypto, seen as a cult, surged with President Trump’s rise and now tumbles amid his political setbacks. Read more on why the "Trump trade" is unraveling: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-trump-trade-is-unraveling #CryptoCrash #TrumpTrade #Bitcoin #PaulKrugman
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Bitcoin drops below $90K, wiping out 2025 gains; Ether down nearly 40%. Extreme fear grips crypto markets as ETF inflows slow and institutional sell-offs rise. Next Bitcoin support around $75K; high volatility expected.
#Bitcoin #Ethereum #CryptoCrash #CryptoMarket #CryptoVolatility #CryptoNews #Blockchain #CryptoInvesting #CryptoFear #BitcoinPrice #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-crashes-below-90000-investor-fear-extreme/
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Bitcoin drops below $90K, wiping out 2025 gains; Ether down nearly 40%. Extreme fear grips crypto markets as ETF inflows slow and institutional sell-offs rise. Next Bitcoin support around $75K; high volatility expected.
#Bitcoin #Ethereum #CryptoCrash #CryptoMarket #CryptoVolatility #CryptoNews #Blockchain #CryptoInvesting #CryptoFear #BitcoinPrice #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-crashes-below-90000-investor-fear-extreme/
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Bitcoin drops below $90K, wiping out 2025 gains; Ether down nearly 40%. Extreme fear grips crypto markets as ETF inflows slow and institutional sell-offs rise. Next Bitcoin support around $75K; high volatility expected.
#Bitcoin #Ethereum #CryptoCrash #CryptoMarket #CryptoVolatility #CryptoNews #Blockchain #CryptoInvesting #CryptoFear #BitcoinPrice #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-crashes-below-90000-investor-fear-extreme/
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Oh, #Bitcoin already having black week sale, I see.
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Ethereum dives 10% to $3,266, its biggest one-day drop since October, wiping out 20% in a week. Market cap slips to $395B, as profit-taking and volatility shake traders. ETH now sits 34% below its all-time high, reminding investors of crypto’s sharp risks.
#Ethereum #CryptoCrash #MarketUpdate #ETHPriceDrop #CryptoNews #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/ethereum-drops-10-percent-market-correction-investor-guide/
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Bitcoin Price Crashes Below $100K Even as Trade Tensions Subside - The Bitcoin price has plummeted to below $100,000 even as trade tensions between the U.S.... - https://coingape.com/bitcoin-price-crashes-below-100k-even-as-trade-tensions-subside/ #bitcoinnews #cryptocrash #bitcoin #news
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Bitcoin’s October Dip.
Bitcoin slid 5%, its first monthly loss since 2018, amid global uncertainty and U.S.–China tensions. Still up 16% in 2025, experts see room for recovery ahead.#Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto #CryptoNews #MarketUpdate #Blockchain #CryptoCrash #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoin-7-year-streak-ends-october-loss-cryptocurrency-volatility/
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Trump Tariffs: U.S. President Threatens 155% Tariff on China, Bitcoin Falls - U.S. President Donald Trump has again threathened higher tariffs on China if they fail to... - https://coingape.com/trump-tariffs-us-president-threatens-155-tariff-on-china-bitcoin-falls/ #bitcoinnews #cryptocrash #donaldtrump #bitcoin #news
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Crypto’s $450 Billion Lesson In Market Structure
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#NewsBeep #News #Markets #Binance #Bitcoin #Business #cryptocrash #cryptoexchanges #depegging #UK #UnitedKingdom
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There Are Three Major Tailwinds for Crypto’s Next Rally, Says Galaxy Digital’s Alex Thorn - The firm's top researcher says the structural bull case is intact, pointing to AI capex, ... - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/19/three-major-tailwinds-for-crypto-s-next-rally-says-galaxy-digital-s-alex-thorn #cryptocrash #markets #bitcoin #news #sol #eth
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"If there was a way to prevent 100% of scams there is no way this industry would survive."
#cryptocrash
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“Trump Insider Whale” Opens $127M Short on Bitcoin Ahead of Trump’s Big Announcement- Is Another Crypto Crash Ahead? - The “Trump Insider Whale” has returned with another massive short position on Bitcoin. Th... - https://coingape.com/trump-insider-whale-opens-127m-short-on-bitcoin-ahead-of-trumps-big-announcement-is-another-crypto-crash-ahead/ #bitcoinnews #cryptocrash #cryptonews #news
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🚨 Flash Crash erschüttert #Krypto-Markt: Bitcoin & Altcoins verlieren in 30 Min bis zu 80% ihres Wertes! Über 20 Mrd. $ an Long-Positionen liquidiert. Panik ausgelöst durch US-Zollankündigungen auf chinesische Importe. Experten sprechen von technischer Marktbereinigung. Mehr: https://www.nau.ch/news/wirtschaft/flash-crash-erschuttert-krypto-markte-67054708 #Bitcoin #Ethereum #CryptoCrash 📉💥
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After Oct. 10 Crypto Crash, Bitwise CIO’s Three-Question Test Finds No Lasting Damage - Crypto’s Oct. 10 plunge looks more like a stress test than a regime change, Bitwise Chief... - https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/10/15/after-oct-10-crypto-crash-bitwise-cio-s-three-question-test-finds-no-lasting-damage #cryptocrash #markets #crypto #news
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Bitwise CIO Calls Crypto Crash a ‘Blip’ as Market Bounces Back With $338M ETF Inflows - Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan said the recent crypto crash is a “temporary blip” in a strong bu... - https://coingape.com/bitwise-cio-calls-crypto-crash-a-blip-as-market-bounces-back-with-338m-etf-inflows/ #cryptocrash #cryptonews #bitwise #news
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Binance Rolls Out $400M Recovery Plan Following $19B Crypto Crash - TLDR
Binance has launched a $400 million recovery initiative to support users impacted b... - https://blockonomi.com/binance-rolls-out-400m-recovery-plan-following-19b-crypto-crash/ #cryptocrash #exchanges #binance #bnb
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Crypto Flash Crash 2025: Bitcoin plunged below $110K after Trump’s 100% China tariffs, sparking $7B in liquidations and wiping out major altcoins like ETH, SOL, and DOGE by up to 30%. Panic selling mirrored the 2020 COVID crash, but Bitcoin’s rebound to $115K hints at resilience amid chaos.
#CryptoCrash #Bitcoin #TrumpTariffs #CryptoNews #MarketMeltdown #Blockchain #CryptoUpdate #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/bitcoins-sudden-crash-7-billion-liquidations-trump-trade-war-china/
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‘My crypto life is over’: US$19 billion sell-off triggers angst on Chinese social media https://www.byteseu.com/1446468/ #Binance #bitcoin #China #ChineseTraders #Coinglass #Crypto #CryptoCrash #CryptoCurrency #NASDAQ #USDollar #USChinaTradeWar #USDe #Weibo #Xiaohongshu
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What Really Caused the $19B Crypto Crash and How a Binance Flaw Set It Off - TLDR:
$60–90M in USDe and related tokens dumped on Binance triggered internal price dist... - https://blockonomi.com/what-really-caused-the-19b-crypto-crash-and-how-a-binance-flaw-set-it-off/ #cryptocrash #exchanges #analysis #ethereum #binance #bitcoin #defi #usde
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What Really Caused the $19B Crypto Crash and How a Binance Flaw Set It Off - TLDR:
$60–90M in USDe and related tokens dumped on Binance triggered internal price dist... - https://blockonomi.com/what-really-caused-the-19b-crypto-crash-and-how-a-binance-flaw-set-it-off/ #cryptocrash #exchanges #analysis #ethereum #binance #bitcoin #defi #usde
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What Really Caused the $19B Crypto Crash and How a Binance Flaw Set It Off - TLDR:
$60–90M in USDe and related tokens dumped on Binance triggered internal price dist... - https://blockonomi.com/what-really-caused-the-19b-crypto-crash-and-how-a-binance-flaw-set-it-off/ #cryptocrash #exchanges #analysis #ethereum #binance #bitcoin #defi #usde
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What Really Caused the $19B Crypto Crash and How a Binance Flaw Set It Off - TLDR:
$60–90M in USDe and related tokens dumped on Binance triggered internal price dist... - https://blockonomi.com/what-really-caused-the-19b-crypto-crash-and-how-a-binance-flaw-set-it-off/ #cryptocrash #exchanges #analysis #ethereum #binance #bitcoin #defi #usde
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Hyperliquid DEX Outperforms Top Crypto Exchanges Coinbase, Binance, Robinhood With Zero Downtime - Today’s crypto market crash triggered major congestion at some of the top centralized exc... - https://coingape.com/hyperliquid-dex-outperforms-top-crypto-exchanges-coinbase-binance-robinhood-with-zero-downtime/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptocrash #coinbase #binance
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Crypto Market Loses $670 Billion on CEX Auto Liquidations, Altcoins Crash Intensifies - The crypto market has witnessed the biggest single-day crash in history, with more than $... - https://coingape.com/crypto-market-loses-670-billion-on-cex-auto-liquidations-altcoins-crash-intensifies/ #24/7cryptocurrencynews #cryptomarket #cryptocrash #altcoins
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Bitcoin crashes to $105,000 before rapid rebound; why the market plunged and what triggered the bounce
Bitcoin faced one of its most violent sell-offs in recent months late Friday, briefly plunging to $105,000 before…
#NewsBeep #News #Markets #Binance #Bitcoin #bitcoincrash #Bitcoinrebound #Bitcoinsell-off #Bitcoinvolatility #Business #CA #Canada #Coindoo #cryptocrash #cryptomarketplunge #whycryptocrashed
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