I've been deeply involved with cryptocurrency since I first started reading about it in mid 2012. This led me to start my fintech (financial technology) career years later when I took a position at cryptocurrency exchange Shapeshift back when the platform was free of KYC and crypto was seeing huge invigoration in late 2017. One of the projects that shook the entire scene while I was diving head first into cryptocurrency technology at that time was CryptoKitties. When CryptoKitties damn near froze the ETH chain for months it was immediacy clear to me that this evolving tech known as Non Fungible Tokens was going to change the world, but how?
Before I was obsessed with checking charts I was obsessed with checking card prices. I started playing Magic the Gathering when it showed up to the North East of the United States in 1994-1995. My local video rental store, pretty much the only thing that existed in my super small home town, introduced me to the hobby and I never looked back. Around the same time my father went to a 'computer convention' for work and came home with a magical box that changed my life. My love of gaming started before operating systems was a thing and, in my entire PC gaming lifetime, no games dominated my attention more completly than Diablo 2 and EverQuest.
When other kids were out being normal kids I was starting to learn how to think about trading Souls of Jordan up to full account fortunes to sell. One of my best friendd in Junior High was the little brother of a member of one of the first American EverQuest guilds selling gold for hundreds of thousands of dollars (Shout out to Planet). So I hit the ground running andd tried to level up as fast as I could to get a piece of the pie. It was hard work but easier than my first job at the local grocery store.
Listen, I needed to explain all this so you'll understand me when I say I've been waiting for for whats happening right now in the Play2Earn scene for 5 years and this is just the beginning.
It's really easy to miss that the world is changing when you arn't paying attention. This is why I'm not shocked that more people don't yet understand that Play2Earn is changing gaming and going to reinvigorate the entire industry. Play2Earn gaming is the blending of gambling, cryptocurrency, micro-transactions, and gaming. The best of these projects leverage smartphones through a great app or mobile friendly webpages. I've spoke before about now most can't comprehend the massive audienvce size this opens projects like this to. While less than a third of global households have a computer of any sort almost 45% of the worlds population has some access to a cell phone daily.
That makes stories like this possible:
People in the Philippines are earning cryptocurrency during the pandemic by playing a video game
Friends, we are at the begining of something thats going to feel at times like being strapped to the nose-cone of a rocket. I'll tell you, that's what it's felt like to build my Splinterlands collection from $700 in BTC early this year and watch it grow to a $35,000 monster of an account that produces $50+ in SPS and DEC a day, produces CUB via CubDEFI, and has funded a growing $1000+ Hive Engine wallet full of other game assets like packs/dice/totems I have no plan to sell for multiple years.
Want proof? That's fair. Here.
Splinterlands is my first Play2Earn bonanza but I'm dipping my toes into as many games as I can find and, with the recent news from a variety of different projects like Rising Star, RollerCoin, UpLand, and Neon District it's just a matter of time for the next goldmine to show up. And then then next. See where I'm going with this?
I honestly feel like I saw all this coming. What I didn't see coming is PeakD.
I'm a grumpy antisocial techie living in a cabin in the woods with my wife and cats. To say my cell phone is often charged and on would be generious. Social media is something that was really fun and interesting for a while, I
honestly had more fun on Myspace than Facebook, but I've been off those platfoms for quite a while now and man, I fucking hate reddit.
So to see what the Hive Engine has enabled and how well PeakD has built off that to show how and why a new generation of social media is possible has shocked me. I honestly thought Cambridge Analitica had curb stomped any interest in social media I had left but, here I am, writing daily articles again and having more fun than ever before.
Fuck an upvote. I am highly motivated by being paid. That makes HIVE powerful.
One of the things I think Reddit put really well is "remember the human". It's really easy to miss that behind every interaction we have online there is a real person sitting on the other end of the magical internet pipes. I don't want that to happen here, to me, or at all. Thats why I'm here to say thank you.
If you havn't been following me more you mot not know that I tried this elseware and it didnt go nearly as well. Originally PeakD was a cool new place to post the articles I was writing for Publish0x. PeakD has been so much better to me than Publish0x it's been eclipsed in my interest completely. So, thank you do much for the time, attention, tips, reblogs, and follows you have all provided me! This is just the beginning of something really amazing and, if you think Facebook caused a splash what do you think will happen when the world discovers a better version of that they pays you to use it?
If you are here, you are early, and likely a friend. Thanks for being on this adventure with me!
Thanks for reading as ever yall! I'm looking for new projects to research! Do you have a favorite CryptoGame or are you working on a project in the space? If so please reach out! Id love to learn more!
Looking to hang out with other Crypto-Gamers? Join us over at the The Crypto-Gaming Guild discord. We are looking for game captains and folks who can help organize. If you are interested, please step up!
The games we are currently focusing on are:
Rising Star
Splinterlands
RollerCoin
UpLand
Neon District
Alien Worlds
Lost Relics
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