I agree, and isn't bitcoin a smart accounting system that fixes the inflation issue?
Everything else they could come up with, the developers of the game must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of in-game currencies is of breaches of that trust
Generally game devs do not benefit by debasing the ingame currency, since that would make the game worse. They spend lots of time trying to bandaid fix inflation issues caused by gold drop money printing systems.
Can’t use bitcoin L1 directly because it’s slow and not meant for toys like gaming. Currently playing with the idea of ecash tokens backed by bitcoin. Players could get these bearer tokens as drops and trade them between players. I think it would work well! Maybe at the end the player could even cash out and in to grow the economy at a controlled rate.
Wouldn’t that just go back to the bot issue? You’d have bots farming tokens? How are tokens distributed to the mobs? Who sets the drop rate and what funds that initially?
Yeah good point, need to determine if these tokens represent all resources? Items? Only the currency? Maybe drop rates have an emission schedule? Resources become harder to farm over time?
Sounds like a job for Cashu!
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