199 - Are Crypto Games Making a Comeback?
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🗓️ 4 December 2023
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Are crypto games making a comeback? Vance Spencer and his Co-Founder Michael Anderson join us today to answer that question.
We did a bunch of episode on crypto gaming last hype cycle – retrospectively, it was too early. But now we have cheap blockspace, better wallets, and games that are fun to play.
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 Intro
00:07:19 Intro To Crypto Gaming
00:14:00 How Has Crypto Gaming Evolved?
00:17:39 Casual Vs AAA Games
00:21:10 The Current Gaming Experience
00:26:00 What Benefits Come From Blockchain?
00:32:47 Best Argument Against Crypto Gaming?
00:45:29 How Far Can This Go?
00:50:47 IOS and Taxes
00:55:11 Dealing With Regulators
00:59:01 Choosing a Chain
01:04:50 Are Traditional Studios Coming?
01:07:27 What's An On Chain Game?
01:12:20 Blockspace
01:18:58 Can This Pump Our Assets?
01:21:44 Closings and Disclaimers
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RESOURCES
Vance:
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Michael:
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're gonna see it start out international. |
| 0:02.3 | You're gonna see most of the users in Asia, |
| 0:03.9 | you're gonna see most of the users in Eastern Europe. |
| 0:06.0 | And then as you kind of build that side of the game, |
| 0:08.4 | the labor side, you're gonna see the capital side flow in |
| 0:10.9 | and kind of build the sustainable game economy. |
| 0:13.1 | And I don't think the question is like, |
| 0:14.3 | whether you can build a crypto game that works. |
| 0:16.7 | Like there's no rules that say you can. |
| 0:18.8 | And what we're doing on DeFi is kind of like |
| 0:20.4 | an early iteration of a crypto game anyways. |
| 0:22.2 | I think the question is, can you build a sustainable economy? |
| 0:25.7 | Welcome to Bankless. |
| 0:26.7 | We're weeks before the frontier of internet money |
| 0:28.5 | and internet finance. |
| 0:29.6 | This is how to get started, how to get better, |
| 0:31.3 | how to front run the opportunity. |
| 0:32.7 | This is Ryan Sean Adams. |
| 0:33.5 | I'm here with David Hoffman and we're here |
| 0:35.5 | to help you become more bankless. |
| 0:37.7 | The question today, are crypto games making a comeback? |
| 0:41.7 | So we did a bunch of episodes. |
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