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When asked to name a paragon of technology-life balance, most people wouldn’t reflexively answer, professional gamer. Let’s be honest; we all know the stereotype. We picture pasty-faced players sitting in dark basements, their eyes glued to the screen as they tap away towards their next high score, win, or record. The husks of snack wrappers and forgotten energy drinks sit crumpled and discarded by their keyboards; the only human connection available is from the players whose voices stream over the audio feed. It’s intuitive to assume that those who spend so much time online must be doing something wrong. Being plugged in is a critical part of a pro gamer’s day-to-day life, far more than it is for the average office worker. Spending hours and hours online is quite literally in the job description; often, players even to make facilitating team development and practice easier. Given all this, it’s easy to dismiss esports professionals as having no tech-life balance – or to assume that the mark skews so heavily towards tech as to make the question of finding some nebulous equilibrium laughable. move into shared houses Here’s the thing: these assumptions totally mischaracterize a profession that could actually help us renegotiate our relationship with technology as a whole. Consider , a professional esports organization that supports internationally-competitive teams for games such as League of Legends, DOTA 2 and Counter Strike: Global Offensive, as an example. The team has managed to find a surprisingly balanced, if tech-driven, way of living. Team Liquid According to a profile published by the gaming magazine Kotaku, Team Liquid’s schedules have been designed by esports psychologists to support . On regular workdays, Liquid’s League of Legends team , then travel to the team’s practice facility for a healthy, catered breakfast. The team then has practice sessions in three-hour blocks, broken up by regular breaks and meals. By 10 PM, they can choose to either stream their gameplay, hit the gym, or go home from the night. both gaming performance and players’ physical and mental wellbeing starts off the day with a morning gym session A critical difference between Team Liquid’s approach and those of other teams is the separation between the players’ home and working environments. “It feels good to have that morning ritual of getting ready, getting dressed, and going to the office to scrim and start the day—rather than crawling out of bed onto my computer chair in the gaming house,” Eugene “Pobelter” Park told Kotaku. For many players, being a professional gamer requires the same work-home separation that any other career would – although, as Park implies, the task requires a little more thought to be given to creating boundaries within a conventional “home” environment. Teams that don’t have multi-million-dollar facilities often try to create by creating rules against having gaming gear in player rooms and designating Internet-off hours. This ensures that players have enough space and distance from the work and personalities that they have to maintain online. areas of separation Then, of course, is the personal aspect. Contrary to the stereotype of the lone player living in an isolated basement, professional teams often try to make sure that their players have social lives beyond their screens by planning team outreach events, encouraging team bonding activities, and providing ample leave time. In an article for TechRadar, explains that he tries to give team members the time they need to stay connected with their families and friends even if the job has forced them to move across the world. Beyond usual breaks, Johnson says that he sets aside four weeks during the holiday season to allow the players to “reset mentally” by spending time with their families. AS Roma Fnatic team manager Colin Johnson All of this brings up a question: If professional gamers – who by definition spend hours online daily – can achieve a healthy balance between their online and offline lives, does their success refute mainstream assumptions about the inherent unhealthiness of technology use? Accepting, rejecting, furthering, and reviling our relationship with technology has become a regular undercurrent in everyday life. We have guidelines, apps, and tech-cutback tools to distance us from the perceived dangers of technology use. In 2018, Apple famously developed its feature to track our usage and remind us when we’ve hit our predetermined limits. One Forbes contributor explained that she created her after “someone I consider wise and aware and thus immune to tech addiction — literally begged me to create a detox program for her and everyone else she knows.” “Screen Time” 30-day detox program The underlying assumption is simple: using technology too often makes us feel sick. If we “detox” – the phrase itself implying that technology acts as a toxin – we will feel better and realign with a “normal” state of health. It was a sentiment like this one that prompted OneZero writer Steve Rousseau to dramatically cut back his technology use and . He expected the week to be funny, inconvenient, or even annoying. He was unpleasantly surprised. write about the resulting experience “By day five, I didn’t feel 'free' or relieved to be away from screens,” Rousseau wrote. “I felt isolated and anxious. I missed a message from my girlfriend, who’s in Pakistan for work, because of Screen Time. I sent her an apology and a sheepish explanation of this dumb experiment, which only made me feel silly and even more isolated.” Interestingly, Rousseau also found that once he began viewing his technology use as something to be avoided, he began to feel physically ill when he decided to use some of his allotted time to play a game that he usually enjoyed. “Screens are a vital part of how I work, unwind, and connect with the people I love,” he reflected. “Arbitrarily reducing my screen time only served to mess with the delicate, I would even say healthy, balance I had naturally developed.” Rousseau’s point about balance is interesting, given that it refutes the simplicity of assuming that a “healthy” relationship with tech requires stepping away from it, cleansing yourself of it. This idea makes me think of what Scott Adams, the creative mind behind Dilbert, wrote about what he called . pre-success failure “If you achieve your goal, you celebrate and feel terrific, but only until you realize you just lost the thing that gave you purpose and direction,” Adams explains. “Your options are to feel empty and useless, perhaps enjoying the spoils of success until they bore you, or set new goals and re-enter the cycle of permanent pre-success failure.” In this context, a digital diet would be something we take on to accomplish a goal: to fall in line with assumptions of what constitutes a “healthy” relationship with technology by rejecting it. Yet, how can anyone possibly not do something they love in perpetuity? Furthermore, why would anyone want to do that to themselves? As Rousseau notes, viewing tech solely as something to be controlled, minimized, and rejected can be harmful; going on a digital “diet” can disrupt the very emotional-mental-interpersonal balance we hope to preserve. According to current perspectives, gamers should be the antithesis of a stereotypically "healthy" life – after all, they spend most of their time glued to a screen. However, despite living to that digital extreme, many professional gamers view their online lives as positive and balanced; pro gamers eat well, they exercise, they engage with their team, and they spend time with their families. Gaming directs players’ days, but it doesn’t overwhelm them. True, most of us don’t have fancy facilities or psychologists or personal trainers to separate ourselves from our lives online. However, the building blocks for a new philosophy for technology usage are still there. Pro gamers offer the idea that we can appreciate technology for the value and joy it can provide. They also teach us the value of creating areas of separation and the importance of maintaining healthy living habits regardless of how much time you allocate to one interest or another. We need to stop framing our technology use within a dieting mindset. Instead, we should negotiate our own balance, our own routine – one that respects and values technology within the broader context of our lives without creating the anxious need to punish ourselves for using it. If gamers who log hours and hours of play per day can achieve that kind of tech-life equilibrium, it seems fair to say the rest of us stand a chance.

What Professional Gamers Can Teach Us About Tech Health

In 2018 you would be hard pushed to find someone who isn’t aware of esports as an entertainment. With its rapid growth, fans are flocking to wherever they can to find new and interesting content surrounding the games, teams, and players. A plethora of communities have formed across a wide variety of platforms, all with the common goal of following the stories that are so unique to esports. These communities are primed to evolve, they just need that little push to level up the tools they use to connect, learn and share in these experiences. The team at PatronGG have been working hard over the past months to provide that push with our upcoming esports community app, . Kokyo But first, let me give you more context on how we came to this conclusion. It’s August 2017, and our first app “Fnatic Nation” had just entered its beta phase and thousands of die-hard fans wanted in. The app was part of a partnership with Fnatic, the world-leading professional esports organisation with the goal of improving fan engagement and monetization through a branded team app. As with most betas, we were able to learn and make changes based on community feedback throughout the 6 months we were in testing. During this time, the app went through a redesign, tweaks, performance updates and bug fixes before we were finally ready to push it live. We launched Fnatic Nation during the 2017 EU LCS Spring Split for both iOS and Android, and the app has been performing well ever since. However, while we were working on Fnatic Nation and talking with fans, we identified opportunities that we couldn’t seize with an app that only supported a single team and this played havoc with our problem-solving minds, so that’s when we decided to embark on the journey we’re on today. But first, we had to clearly outline the problems and figure out how we could take what we learned while building the Fnatic app and apply it to a new product: Kokyo. **Problem #1 — Overwhelming Content Experience**To follow an esports team today, you must follow the organization on every social platform they are on: , , YouTube, Instagram, Twitch. Then you’ll probably need to do the same for all the players on the roster for the game you are interested in. At this point, you are at about 30 accounts, but what if, like most esports fans, you follow more than one game or multiple organizations? The problem grows exponentially. Facebook Twitter What you are left with is an overwhelming and chaotic stream of content across many platforms. You could solve this in numerous ways, like focusing on the more popular social channels and only showing those posts but then the fan might miss out on storylines that occur on other platforms, or maybe one team is super active on Twitter but another is on Instagram, how do you choose? So why don’t we aggregate all the popular channels, remove duplicates and make it easy for fans to follow the stories of their favourite teams, players, and personalities, no matter the platform without fear of missing out? The esports community as a whole is spread far and wide, from Reddit to Twitter, to Discord and even VR hangouts. As much as I enjoy using the majority of these platforms, they all serve different purposes and house different cultures which can be daunting to new community members. Problem #2 — The community is splintered very Can you name one platform where every team or brand are consistently involved with their communities? Twitter perhaps, but the sense of community is often fragmented due to how the platform works. Communities are either neglected or have little engagement from the brands due to new platforms emerging or simply the brands being spread too thin across multiple social channels which inevitably leads to very little activity and thus, a dwindling sense of community. There are of course exceptions where communities continue to strive on their own without guidance, but these are few and far between. But what if we could provide a way to bring all the fans together in one place, from different teams and different games, to engage and share their excitement around a common interest with one another? A place where heroes stand out as valued members of the community and help provide a welcoming and friendly environment. **Problem #3 — No reliable source of truth**We all have our own way of tracking match schedules, the results, and in-depth stats. Some esports have it easier than others what with sites like GosuGamers or HLTV, but others have to rely on team websites that are not always kept updated. Regardless of the ‘band-aids’ used, there is clearly room for an improved solution that enhances the fan experience and provides consistency. Esports should be fun, and keeping up-to-date with the latest information shouldn’t be a chore for fans, so what if we provide a single source of truth for the teams they care about? **Looking Forward**When Kokyo launches early next year, it will solve all these problems whilst empowering esports fans to evolve the way they connect and engage by giving them the tools to do so. From aggregated social media and news feeds to gamified social interaction, Kokyo will become the new home for esports fans looking to get more from their community. I’m not saying we’ll get it right straight away, but we hope you’ll help us along the way. If you want to stay up-to-date with everything Kokyo, or apply for early access, feel free to follow us on our socials: FacebookPinterestMySpaceGoogle+RedditYouTubeSnapchatTumblrInstagramIRCWeChatWhatsAppVK Twitter Discord Kokyo.gg But we know that’s quite a lot to follow, so we recommend . 😜 kokyo.gg

Introducing Kokyo — Empowering esports communities to evolve

As previously discussed in , I’ve become passionate about investing in seed stage esports . The Birth of a Venture Capital Investment Thesis startups When I tell people (family, friends, other investors, etc.), I usually get a pretty tight shot-group of questions about esports. Often the questions are accompanied by a look that conveys what I call “nerd shaming.” You know that look, when people feel sorry for you because you are just not cool, oh wait, maybe you don’t. Video games aren’t just for nerds in their parents’ basements. These competitions often take place in arenas such as the one shown here, full of 50,000+ fans, just like a professional sports event you may be more familiar with already. While there are a number of investors who have and will invest in the space, . At the bottom of this post is information on who else is investing in the space, as well as great educational resources on the market. we are one of few actively deploying capital into esports startups pre-Series A Here are the questions people keep asking me who are new to the space: “What is Esports?” . Esports — a multiplayer video game played competitively for spectators, typically by professional gamers “Are you saying there are ‘professional’ video game players?” Yes, that’s exactly what I’m saying. I’m surprised that people don’t know this (considering the size of the viewership market), just as people are surprised at the answer I give. These players make money from sponsorships, streaming (subscriptions to their streams), and by competing in and winning high level tournaments. Yes, a professional esports league is already thriving There is already a professional organization, , hosting professional competitions in addition to the championship matches hosted by the game-makers as well ( , , etc.) Major League Gaming Riot Games Blizzard Entertainment “People pay, to watch others play video games online?” Yes, in fact, according to (which I will reference a few times in this note), the market for streaming is huge. an industry report by NewZoo Fun factoid: More people watched the world finals of in 2016, than watched the NBA Finals game 7 that year. while (with an average across all 7 games of closer to 20 million). League of Legends 43 million viewers watched the LoL finals 31 million tuned in for Game 7 of the 2016 NBA finals according to Nielson This is the main page of Twitch on a random Monday night around 6 PM PST If you were to log in to ( , where gamers can stream their video game play) at any time (literally try it on a Tuesday at 11 AM) there will be millions of people online watching others play. Login at midnight on a Friday night and you’ll see what I’m getting at here. Twitch a streaming site acquired by Amazon for nearly $1 billion “Do non-gamers actually watch video game streams online?” — So it’s not just nerds like me who want to get better at game play, this space is turning into a legitimate entertainment market. Here is some game specific data on this topic by NewZoo that can give you more context with respect to three of the biggest games in the world (based on playing and viewing data): 42% of people watching streaming video game play, aren’t playing the game themselves Source: NewZoo ( ) link to source here “How can it be fun to just watch other people play a game online?” Just give it a try, . Players such as Dr. Disrespect have tens of thousands of viewers at any given time and have had tens of millions of unique views. . You will enjoy seeing this guy play a few games. go watch a few highly followed gamers, Dr. Disrespect , or Josh OG (this guy is legit good), or Ninja or Viss from Team Solo Mid I call him the shock jock of esports When you view a stream on Twitch, you get to watch a picture-in-picture image of the player, overlaid on top of the same view he has on his screen while he plays. The players comment while playing and often the commentary is worth watching for. Dr. Disrespect is hilarious, go check him out for a half hour one day between 10 AM PT and 6 PM PT. Often I have this on in the background now while I’m working instead of ESPN or CNBC. “Why Invest in Esports?” — The video games market is just over a $100 billion market in 2016 (source: ) and esports specifically is a large and growing niche within that space. In 2017 the market size for esports is expected to be $696 million. (source: ). Huge market NewZoo 2017 Gaming Market Report NewZoo 2017 Esports Market Report — in the last year the esports market has grown over 43% year over year. By 2020, the market is expected to be over $1.5 billion per year while the broader gaming space will be over $128 billion by 2020 (source: NewZoo reports listed above). Those are conservative estimates; this report references a projection for a $5 billion esports market by 2020 ( ). Any way you slice it, this is a high growth market. Unparalleled growth Tech Crunch Esports Article — The number of people spending multiple hours per day playing and / or watching video games is staggering. . This is an impressive average and indicates there are a lot of extremely engaged users, more so than many other markets (professional sports fans, etc.). Extremely high user engagement Here is an article citing a survey result showing that the average gamer spends over 6 hours per week engaged with a game — ( ), “ Traditional sports leagues such as basketball monetize fans at about $15 per person. Esports right now is monetizing at $2.83 per person.” This screams opportunity to me. Under monetized users According to this article in Venture Beat which references this other report by NewZoo — There are no borders, or boundaries or stadium restrictions. Anyone with an connection can be the best player in the world in any game and connect with and play with anyone. The potential of the market is understated in these reports I’ve linked throughout this blog due to the global nature of the market. Global audience internet So, to recap, why invest in this space: Large, high growth market, with intense user engagement where monetization has yet to be realized. Tell me where to mail my wallet. Want to learn more about esports? I have compiled some resources that I find helpful when trying to understand what esports is, why people are investing in the space and why people even care to watch others play video games: The Guardian did a video that takes about 11 minutes to watch. It will explain who some of the players are, how the sport has grown and give you a sense of the global nature of the sport: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2017/jun/16/e-sports-the-digital-revolution-has-arrived-video NewZoo Esports 2017 Market Report — go flip through this, you will be shocked at some of the statistics: http://resources.newzoo.com/2017-newzoo-global-esports-market-report-light As I was finishing this blog post up, I saw this article come across the wire, very helpful as well on, “ ” Why Competitive Video Gaming is the Hot New Thing Great article here in Tech Crunch by Minard Hamilton (Partner at , the first esports only VC fund) on the LA esports scene. Some great content here on who is investing in esports, and who the major players (pun intended) in the space: BITKRAFT https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/13/in-la-some-investors-wish-they-all-could-live-in-an-esports-world/ The BITKRAFT blog is a great read too: http://www.bitkraft.net/blog Digits to Dollars is a blog that has picked up coverage of the esports space. Their blog post on is a great read and links to several of their other esports write-ups. Definitely worth a read. the economics of esports (here) Streamers I’ve been watching lately: , , (these will gives you a sense of what is drawing people). Dr. Disrespect Ninja TSS_Viss Who to follow on Twitter: , , . FNATIC ESPN Esports NEWZOO Tech Crunch article on the importance of streaming to esports, explaining how and why this phenomenon has come about and what is next for esports: https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/17/the-importance-of-streaming-to-e-sports/ Deep Space Ventures is a VC fund based in Dallas, TX. Stephen Hays is the founder and managing partner. DSVC can be contacted here. Follow Stephen on Twitter Here

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Fanaticism nor devoured by the desire of vengeance

Welcome to our online course for budding cryptocurrency believers. Or for those who just want to appear cool and informed on parties when the topic shifts to . bitcoin We all know this about The . Money is the religion of the past and the root of all evil. Bitcoins will buy you gratitude with your fellow bringers of the light. But how do you get taken seriously by those other fanatics? It can all seem a bit daunting at first. Here’s some easy help to get you started. Future Talk the talk First you got to get some nice terminology in your vocabulary (fancy words that you should know about). You don’t have to get them exactly right, bitcoin is almost as mysterious as quantum mechanics. : The technology behind bitcoin. Essentially just a growing chain of data (blocks). Any transaction logged on the chain will be remembered forever and ever. Unless we destroy the internet. Blockchain : A general name for all this digital money. It uses the word , because there is a lot of cryptography involved (digital security with math and codes). Cryptocurrency crypto : The first and main cryptocurrency that is stored on a blockchain. Remember that blockchain is the real deal here, bitcoin is just a nice feature on it. Like an app on your smartphone. Bitcoins : Mysterious creator of Bitcoin. Real identity unknown. This the saint of the digital age. He who blessed us with his holy . Satoshi Nakamoto white paper : People that create and verify the blocks for the chain. They do that by finding complicated cryptographic codes called hashes. When they find a new block, they get bitcoins as a reward. Good for them and us! Miners : You store bitcoin adresses somewhere (note: the real bitcoins are on the blockchain). This can be in an online wallet, or a wallet on your smartphone, or on a usb stick. You can spend bitcoins via private keys, which you can also store in the wallet or remember in your mind. These methods can still be cracked with a gun to your head. Wallet : Big word for the fact that there is no central authority (like a bank, or a government) needed for bitcoin. Huray! Decentralization : The old form of money. Not backed by gold, but only by central authorities. This is the thing you’re going to get rid off. Fiat money : Initial Coin Offering. Alternative cryptocurrency (altcoins or tokens) are being created all the time these days. They start with fundraising (generally in the form of bitcoins) from early backers to get going fast. These early backers will get big heaps of the new tokens. ICO Be an idealist To first get started tell everyone who wants to hear it, at parties or near the watercooler or in the bus, that you were an early miner of bitcoin back in 2010. But you gave them all away in exchange for hugs. This is the true Satoshi spirit, who allegedly deleted all his bitcoin private keys (now worth 18 billion dollar) for idealistic reasons. Also mention this last fact. After you’ve established yourself as an expert, be ready to answer a lot of questions from lesser believers. We’ve added a curated list of answers in the appendix of this document. Denounce the establishment Make sure you rant everywhere, on FB, on Medium, on Instagram, on Twitter, that all bankers and financial institutions are crooks stealing your money and we need a decentralised alternative for the good people of this planet. You do not even have to lie about anything to pull this off. And by doing so you will be granted many kudos and followers interested in bitcoin. Guess Satoshi One of the best games among bitcoin owners is to guess who Satoshi really is. Elon Musk is already taken. Go All-in Now that you have a little network, it’s time to show off. Sell your house, all belongings, your company, your stocks, empty your children’s savings accounts. Just take everything you have. And invest it all in bitcoin! Then share all of this with the internet. You will be admired by even the truest fanatics. (Also memorize all keys, and just tell any potential criminals you meet that your e-wallet froze.) Be a rebel Relocate to a country where bitcoin is forbidden, and tell the local government you are the real Satoshi. Guaranteed bitcoin publicity for you. You may even end up a bitcoin martyr. In that case, eternal glory awaits you. Show commitment Never, ever sell your bitcoins. Whenever the pricing takes a nosedive, inform all your followers it’s just the latest growth hickup, caused by the establisment that wants to take us all down. They will not succeed! Selling is for the faint of heart, the materialists, the greedy, the uncommitted. Be a visionair Actually do not invest everything in bitcoin alone. Invest in a new token that recently had it’s ICO. One that promises to be more environmently friendly, incorporates AI, has nice cryptokitties and promises 10.000 fold returns in just a few months. Captain Hindsight will tell you which one you should have taken. Become the blockchain Once you’ve done all of the above you are ready for true transcendence. To be a true blockchain fanatic, you invent your own token. Mention that you will work towards uploading people’s mind into the blockchain for eternal life. Ofcourse, you’ll go first. Don’t know how to do this? Write an inspiring whitepaper and send it into the world via your newly acquired network of other bitcoin fanatics. Blockchain developers will flock towards your calling. Just use your imagination, the world is ready for your personal disruption. Frequently asked questions Once you start signaling on parties that you are a semi-expert of bitcoin you’ll be bombarded with questions of lesser believers. Here’s some help answering those. Why is the value of bitcoin growing so fast? People are tired of fiat money and its backers. This is the 99% exacting revenge on the 1%. Also some people just got very greedy. What is the value of bitcoin? What is the value of money? It’s just a shared belief among people. Electrical spikes in your brain. Now its true virtual nature is embraced and the middleman is removed. Do I have to buy a whole bitcoin at once? No, it is divisible. The smallest unit is one Satoshi. How does bitcoin work really? Use your terminology from the beginning of this article to talk your way out of this swamp. What if the bitcoin bubble bursts? In the bigger picture it is irrelevant. Blockchain technology is here to stay. If you were in it for greed, you’ll have lost some fiat money temporarily. If you are a true believer, nothing is lost, just a small network glitch. Should I invest in bitcoin? Hell yeah! See the section Go All-in. Also see the previous question. Matthijs Cox is a high-tech professional from The Netherlands. During his PhD (2010–2014) he had the opportunity to use an idle university network for bitcoin mining. He thought this was foolishness, real science is more important. Some esteemed colleagues thought otherwise. Turns out the joke is entirely on dr. Cox.

How to Act Like a True Bitcoin Fanatic

How Bitcoin Merges Religion, Philosophy, and Innovation to Unlock Financial Prosperity

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Cryptocurrency has been the talk of the town for quite a few years, especially after the pandemic, with prices soaring to the moon after a brief fall. Most crypto "bros" are overtly emotional about any criticisms that come their way. Many of their arguments against the criticism are on how crypto, especially Bitcoin, can avoid another 2008 since it's decentralized.Now, we all have come across various articles discussing problems with Bitcoin - a slow processing rate of 7 transactions per second, 120 gigabytes of chain, potential loss of transactions, risk of 51% attack, centralized mining, and advocacy, immutability leading to irreversible mistakes and frauds and the fact that it consumes more electricity per year than many countries.Crypto holders talk about the potential use of Bitcoin as a currency, even going to the extent of harassing merchants into accepting Bitcoin as a payment option when the very fact that Bitcoin is deflationary - it is more valuable tomorrow than today due to its limited supply. Hence, as an individual, I am motivated to spend my fiat currency (which is inflationary) over my Bitcoins.Also, millions of scams are happening with these so-called alt-coins that deserve a separate post.These fanatics also talk about the revolutionary Ethereum that is supposed to solve the world's existing data problems. If you deep dive into the current use cases of most Ethereum-based startups, almost 99% of them are solvable using a centralized approach. I only know of one real-life use for "blockchain-related" technology - Git, which is based on Merkle Trees. It is a lifesaver for the IT industry and programmers.New investors, especially people unfamiliar with blockchain technology or advanced finance, must be protected against scams that pay back early adopters with their money, much like any other Ponzi scheme.Decentralized databases may find a unique and niche use case for a particular consortium of industries intrinsically motivated to pay for all the processing power to commission the blockchain and keep it running.I only see cryptocurrency, particularly a stablecoin, as a store of value (because people, for some reason, believe it's valuable), much like gold. But hey! At least gold looks pretty, and you can hold gold bars in your hand and feel rich!What do you think about cryptocurrency and blockchains? Have you found any use cases that have any potential? Let's discuss in the comments :) Cryptocurrency has been the talk of the town for quite a few years, especially after the pandemic, with prices soaring to the moon after a brief fall. Most crypto "bros" are overtly emotional about any criticisms that come their way. Many of their arguments against the criticism are on how crypto, especially Bitcoin, can avoid another 2008 since it's decentralized. Now, we all have come across various articles discussing problems with Bitcoin - a slow processing rate of 7 transactions per second, 120 gigabytes of chain, potential loss of transactions, risk of 51% attack, centralized mining, and advocacy, immutability leading to irreversible mistakes and frauds and the fact that it consumes more electricity per year than many countries. Crypto holders talk about the potential use of Bitcoin as a currency, even going to the extent of harassing merchants into accepting Bitcoin as a payment option when the very fact that Bitcoin is deflationary - it is more valuable tomorrow than today due to its limited supply. Hence, as an individual, I am motivated to spend my fiat currency (which is inflationary) over my Bitcoins. Also, millions of scams are happening with these so-called alt-coins that deserve a separate post. These fanatics also talk about the revolutionary Ethereum that is supposed to solve the world's existing data problems. If you deep dive into the current use cases of most Ethereum-based startups, almost 99% of them are solvable using a centralized approach. I only know of one real-life use for "blockchain-related" technology - Git, which is based on Merkle Trees. It is a lifesaver for the IT industry and programmers. New investors, especially people unfamiliar with blockchain technology or advanced finance, must be protected against scams that pay back early adopters with their money, much like any other Ponzi scheme. Decentralized databases may find a unique and niche use case for a particular consortium of industries intrinsically motivated to pay for all the processing power to commission the blockchain and keep it running. I only see cryptocurrency, particularly a stablecoin, as a store of value (because people, for some reason, believe it's valuable), much like gold. But hey! At least gold looks pretty, and you can hold gold bars in your hand and feel rich! What do you think about cryptocurrency and blockchains? Have you found any use cases that have any potential? Let's discuss in the comments :)

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