Video games

Video games

A blockchain game CryptoKitties, launched in November 2017. The game made headlines in December 2017 when a cryptokitty character - an in-game virtual pet - was sold for more than US$100,000. CryptoKitties illustrated scalability problems for games on Ethereum when it created significant congestion on the Ethereum network with about 30% of all Ethereum transactions being for the game.

CryptoKitties also demonstrated how blockchains can be used to catalog game assets (digital assets).

 

• 1History
• 2Structure
  • 2.1Blocks - Block Time - Hard Forks
  • 2.2Decentralization
  • 2.3Openness - Permissionless -  Permissioned (private) blockchain - Disadvantanges of Private Blockchain -BlockChain Analysis
• 3Uses
  • 3.1Cryptocurrencies
  • 3.2Smart contracts
  • 3.3Financial services
  • 3.4Video games
  • 3.5Energy trading
  • 3.6Supply chain
  • 3.7Domain Names
  • 3.8Other uses
• 4Types
  • 4.1Public blockchains
  • 4.2Private blockchains
  • 4.3Hybrid blockchains
  • 4.4Sidechains
• 5Academic research
  • 5.1Adoption decision
  • 5.2Collaboration
  • 5.3Blockchain and internal audit
  • 5.4Energy use of proof-of-work blockchains
  • 5.5Journals