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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by chinathrow on Friday October 15, 2021 @03:27PM (#28882024)
> NFTs on blockchains solve the problem of provenance and permanence.

Your blockchain will not be there in the future. Permanence? Not so much.

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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by coralreef on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:05PM (#28882500)
You have a crystal ball?
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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by arcticbull on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:29PM (#28882793)
er, do you?
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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by coralreef on Friday October 15, 2021 @04:52PM (#28883012)
The Bitcoin network has produced blocks every 10 minutes since January 3 2009 without fail.

It is a decentralized network that has faced the test of government, natural disaster, organizational and technical risk, etc.

So no, maybe blockchains won't last "forever", but neither of us enough information to confirm either way. My bet is on blockchains outliving everyone typing on this forum.

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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by arcticbull on Friday October 15, 2021 @05:54PM (#28883563)
Sounds like we're both speculating then :)
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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by coralreef on Friday October 15, 2021 @06:39PM (#28883963)
Sure, if we want to devolve into semantics: NFTs are both worthless and valuable, depending on who you ask.
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Re:Steam bans all blockchain and NFT games on its platform by arcticbull on Friday October 15, 2021 @09:09PM (#28884779)
That's certainly true
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