Play to earn: gaming’s lawless new crypto frontier
When crypto meets gaming, players turn into investors. Axie Infinity and "play to earn" open a lawless new frontier — with echoes of MLM and pyramid schemes.
When crypto meets gaming, players turn into investors. Axie Infinity and "play to earn" open a lawless new frontier — with echoes of MLM and pyramid schemes.
This column was first published in SvD Kultur, in Swedish, on March 1st, 2021. The legendary auction house Christie’s is selling a digital work of art and thus joining a trend that is growing explosively. The items are suddenly sold for record sums. Will it last? $1.4 million in seven minutes. This is how much the American artist Micah Johnson sold his new digital artwork “Genesis.001” for recently. But unlike a traditional auction, 1,402 different people […]