⭐ Merited by deisik (1)
Super interesting topic, which interests me a lot, since I am involved a bit in a blockchain gaming project.
I don't think gaming can drive crypto adoption, but it is a realm where blockchain technology makes a lot of sense and thus it will play a good role in cryptoversum in the future. I saw some people comparing gaming with gambling and pointing out how gambling drives crypto adoption a bit - but I am not sold on this. Crypto gambling is still kind of a nerdy niche, although you get a different impression by looking around in the gambling section here in this forum and given how rich all these crypto casinos have gotten in a short period of time. But crypto has no real use case in terms of gambling imo, other than the fact that it's maybe pretty convenient to play more or less anonymous and have fast deposits/withdrawals. But most people lose with gambling (100% who play casino games, 95% who do sportsbetting or play Poker), so I don't really see the benefit.
Now for gaming this is different, because here you have this huge advantage of really owning your assets with blockchain technology implemented (if you take good care of your private keys
) and this is a big step forward in comparison to what we have now, where you are always a slave of the game developers playing nice, not shutting the game down or giving rare items to themselves or friends and thereby diluting your assets. It's still not perfect and there has just been an exit scam as well, but it's a step in the right direction to bring gaming and blockchain together. It's still a long way to go, but there are projects, who bring games completely decentralized on the blockchain and this will get huge then. Slowly but surely.
I don't think gaming can drive crypto adoption, but it is a realm where blockchain technology makes a lot of sense and thus it will play a good role in cryptoversum in the future. I saw some people comparing gaming with gambling and pointing out how gambling drives crypto adoption a bit - but I am not sold on this. Crypto gambling is still kind of a nerdy niche, although you get a different impression by looking around in the gambling section here in this forum and given how rich all these crypto casinos have gotten in a short period of time. But crypto has no real use case in terms of gambling imo, other than the fact that it's maybe pretty convenient to play more or less anonymous and have fast deposits/withdrawals. But most people lose with gambling (100% who play casino games, 95% who do sportsbetting or play Poker), so I don't really see the benefit.
Now for gaming this is different, because here you have this huge advantage of really owning your assets with blockchain technology implemented (if you take good care of your private keys
) and this is a big step forward in comparison to what we have now, where you are always a slave of the game developers playing nice, not shutting the game down or giving rare items to themselves or friends and thereby diluting your assets. It's still not perfect and there has just been an exit scam as well, but it's a step in the right direction to bring gaming and blockchain together. It's still a long way to go, but there are projects, who bring games completely decentralized on the blockchain and this will get huge then. Slowly but surely.