The Virtual Economy of an MMO is shaped by its developer and player base. To implement Production for Profit/Utility and pay for the costs of running the MMO, the developer would constantly introduce new Incentives to get the player base… Read More ›
I did some more research into “MMO (Massive Multiplayer Online) Virtual Economies” yesterday, hoping to begin sharing my findings later today. As I had suspected the other day, one of the most fundamental problems of running a “Virtual Economy” with… Read More ›
Moving on to a much lighter topic, I mentioned the other day that I was planning to return to discussions about the National Intranet and the International Internet. Anyone who has read my Blog will recall me mentioning about the… Read More ›
After having spent yesterday writing a comment for the ARPLAN Blog, I am planning to write a follow up comment, which is meant to coincide with my own research into Intersectionality Theory. The more I think about Intersectionality Theory, the… Read More ›
The emergence of Cryptocurrencies, beginning with Bitcoin, has made it feasible to entertain the development of Triple-Entry Account Bookkeeping as an expansion of Double-Entry Account Bookkeeping. Conceptually speaking, Triple-Entry Account Bookkeeping follows very similar premises to that of Double-Entry Account… Read More ›
Blockstream, a leading bitcoin infrastructure provider, announced on January 24 that it had raised $125 million in funding to expand its institutional bitcoin mining services. This fundraising round was led by Kingsway Capital, a UK-based private equity fund, and included… Read More ›
Those who have read The Work-Standard (2nd Ed.) and The Third Place (1st Ed.) will recall my discussions of the birthrate, which I referred to as a simple ratio between “cradles and coffins.” There is an entirely different way of… Read More ›
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