Of course, we are far from delivering on such a grand promise, but therapies inspired by a new wave of research are already making it through the drug approval process. We don’t know yet to what extent they will truly work in humans, but promising animal studies show reasons for optimism – more so when it has been found that the mechanisms that und... See more
Many people are rightly skeptical about the play-to-earn model in gaming.The most important question that will determine the destiny of the industry is this: can more money flow out of a game than what was put in?
Premium mediocrity, by his definition, is a fancy tile backsplash in an apartment’s tiny, nearly nonfunctional kitchen, or french fries doused in truffle oil, which contains no actual truffles. It’s Uber Pool, which makes the luxury of being chauffeured around town financially accessible, yet requires that you brush thighs with strangers sharing th... See more
Take Sorare as an example, a firm I’ve written about before. A player cannot take “their” football cards and build a new mode or FIFA-like game utilizing them. “Ownership” does not imply an unlimited license or even an exclusive one to the token owner.
Similarly, signaling pre and post-internet evolves too. Pre-internet signaling was all about IRL flashiness (a Louis Vuitton bag) while post-internet signaling is about digitally-native flashiness (a Cryptopunk NFT).