Steam Tokens

[Adrian]

I propose to use Ethereum blockchain (similar to technology behind Bitcoin) to create Steam Tokens. These tokens could be applied to multiple use cases improving user experience during game play and giving Steam/game developers a new way of income.

Just for example:

• transfer tokens between users by using blockchain network
  
• buy/sell tokens on third party exchanges
  
• transfer tokens to game servers to buy artefacts
  
• transfer goods between different games
  
• pay for new games
  
• build user's reputation
  
• join user experience between Steam and mobile games
  
• build trust between users (!)

...and all in secure, distributed, and decentralized manner.

[Start_Running]

Escrito originalmente por Adrian:

I propose to use Ethereum blockchain (similar to technology behind Bitcoin) to create Steam Tokens. These tokens could be applied to multiple use cases improving user experience during game play and giving Steam/game developers a new way of income.

Just for example:

• transfer tokens between users by using blockchain network
  
• buy/sell tokens on third party exchanges
  
• transfer tokens to game servers to buy artefacts
  
• transfer goods between different games
  
• pay for new games
  
• build user's reputation
  
• join user experience between Steam and mobile games
  
• build trust between users (!)

...and all in secure, distributed, and decentralized manner.

So You basically want free stuff.
Because there's already a system that does all of this and it doesn't rely on highly ineffiicent block chain tech. It's called 'Money'.

[76561198407601200]

Escrito originalmente por Start_Running:

Escrito originalmente por Adrian:

I propose to use Ethereum blockchain (similar to technology behind Bitcoin) to create Steam Tokens. These tokens could be applied to multiple use cases improving user experience during game play and giving Steam/game developers a new way of income.

Just for example:

• transfer tokens between users by using blockchain network
  
• buy/sell tokens on third party exchanges
  
• transfer tokens to game servers to buy artefacts
  
• transfer goods between different games
  
• pay for new games
  
• build user's reputation
  
• join user experience between Steam and mobile games
  
• build trust between users (!)

...and all in secure, distributed, and decentralized manner.

So You basically want free stuff.
Because there's already a system that does all of this and it doesn't rely on highly ineffiicent block chain tech. It's called 'Money'.

i doubt they will reply as this post of theirs from 2017 is the last one they made. But yes, ultimately it is those wanting free things.

[SHIB]

If steam done blockchain back in 2017, most of the F2P games would be Play to Earn, people could make a living out of playing video games, but y'all are way "It iS TH0sE wanting free things"

[Aachen]

Escrito originalmente por shiba:

If steam done blockchain back in 2017, most of the F2P games would be Play to Earn, people could make a living out of playing video games, but y'all are way "It iS TH0sE wanting free things"

Explain how Valve benefits from a blockchain rather than alternatives.

[Mad Scientist]

Don't know why you felt the need to necro a 4+ Yr old thread when you could've looked for a very recent thread on the subject, anyway:

Escrito originalmente por shiba:

If steam done blockchain back in 2017, most of the F2P games would be Play to Earn, people could make a living out of playing video games, but y'all are way "It iS TH0sE wanting free things"

You realize one of the issues with all of this stuff is extreme electrical consumption which increases the depletion rate of non-renewable fuel sources which we still largely utilize, right?

Some countries are banning it, states/cities are starting to heavily tax it as well for this very reason or otherwise regulate it. Summer is peak consumption time, a lot of power plants can barely sustain normal operations let alone people joining the crypto craze without the power generation to offset the demands.

[Brian9824]

Escrito originalmente por shiba:

If steam done blockchain back in 2017, most of the F2P games would be Play to Earn, people could make a living out of playing video games, but y'all are way "It iS TH0sE wanting free things"

Not really, i mean you actually LOSE money when you factor in the wear and tear and electrical costs unless you have efficient machines designed for these activities. Those that do make money are literally making pennies unless they have access to cheap or free electricity.

[SHIB]

Escrito originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

Don't know why you felt the need to necro a 4+ Yr old thread when you could've looked for a very recent thread on the subject, anyway:

Escrito originalmente por shiba:

If steam done blockchain back in 2017, most of the F2P games would be Play to Earn, people could make a living out of playing video games, but y'all are way "It iS TH0sE wanting free things"

You realize one of the issues with all of this stuff is extreme electrical consumption which increases the depletion rate of non-renewable fuel sources which we still largely utilize, right?

Some countries are banning it, states/cities are starting to heavily tax it as well for this very reason or otherwise regulate it. Summer is peak consumption time, a lot of power plants can barely sustain normal operations let alone people joining the crypto craze without the power generation to offset the demands.

Washing machines use more energy than BTC man, wtf really u believe all that stuff?

[Start_Running]

Escrito originalmente por shiba:

Escrito originalmente por Mr. Gentlebot:

Don't know why you felt the need to necro a 4+ Yr old thread when you could've looked for a very recent thread on the subject, anyway:


You realize one of the issues with all of this stuff is extreme electrical consumption which increases the depletion rate of non-renewable fuel sources which we still largely utilize, right?

Some countries are banning it, states/cities are starting to heavily tax it as well for this very reason or otherwise regulate it. Summer is peak consumption time, a lot of power plants can barely sustain normal operations let alone people joining the crypto craze without the power generation to offset the demands.

Washing machines use more energy than BTC man, wtf really u believe all that stuff?

Washin machines are seldom running 24/7 and at the very least a washing machine is performing a measurable and valuable function that has intrinsic value.

[Zekiran]

Why is this thread even still open. We know Steam will not use vaporware money. They've specifically excluded it after having tried it in the past.

Stop asking. It's garbage.

[Mad Scientist]

Escrito originalmente por shiba:

Washing machines use more energy than BTC man, wtf really u believe all that stuff?

My system can trip a breaker, all washing machines I've used are incapable of doing that. The washing machine also hardly runs at all at any given time compared to a BTC machine, and multi-GPU miners or dedicated miners take a large number to even make something valuable sooner, though with electrical costs it's almost always a complete loss as well as an immense burden to the entire grid for people to run high yield operations where one man on twitter can crash the entire market.

You'd need 3090s for a strong ability to mine, or the latest and greatest miner - a large number of them - to profit strongly, though the outright cost and electrical will be a high demand, in addition to the fact dedicated miners are typically made useless in a very short period of time.

So yes, I really do factually believe large scale operations which are typically some of the only ones to make profit, are a burden if you're not offsetting with your own power generation. Try running a BTC farm in the state of california or new york, you'll see how big the power bill is without running AC, let alone with AC. Other countries are also starting to tax and regulate it, making it even more worthless as it typically is with all the fees/fines involved.

I'd also recommend not necro'ing a 4+yr old thread where the subject is beyond dead.

[Gwarsbane]

Escrito originalmente por shiba:

Washing machines use more energy than BTC man, wtf really u believe all that stuff?

No it doesn't and lying about something so easily looked up just hurts your view even more.

A washing machine uses anywhere between 800 to 1200 watts (depending on age and what cycle its in). A regular computer does not use that much power, though when mining depending on the video card and CPU used it could hit 1200 or more watts.

But a washing machine does not go 24/7 like a mining computer would. So while a washing machine "might" use more power in the 60 minutes or so its going, the mining machine would very quickly surpass that after just 90 minutes. Then take into consideration that there are a total of 1200 minutes a day, the mining PC will be running 1110 minutes longer than a washer.

If you go with a dedicated mining machine, they usually use more than one card and have more than one power supply hooked up to it.

I don't know about you, but I usually let my laundry build up a bit so that I'm not running 1/4 loads, I try to do full loads only. So depending on things, that could be a week or 2 weeks between loads more if I just let it keep piling up and do 3 or 4 loads in a single day.

Now a dryer on the other hand, will certainly out do a mining machine in that 20 to 30 minutes of drying, but again the mining machine is going all day, the dryer isn't. In fact the mining machine going all month, the dryer not even close to that, at most lets say once a week. Less if its summer and nice out. Again the mining machine will use much more power than even the washer and drier combined.


How about this, in the same time it takes you to do a full load wash with using the drier, use the money you make from mining to pay for that power..... oh right, you won't actually mine enough to do that in the combined 2 hours it would take to wash and dry clothing.

Not to mention the ware and tear on your PC from running it hard 24/7. I hear the average time to make back the price of a video card is something like a year or more and that doesn't include the price of the power....

But thats only if the price stay high on something that can literally crash to rock bottom pennies while you sleep.

[Zekiran]

Put a brick in a washing machine and run it for a week straight, see if it coughs up gold.



It won't? Huh. Wonder why.

[TomerGamerTV]

So you want Robux but steam version?

[Aachen]

Escrito originalmente por TomerGamerTV:

So you want Robux but steam version?

Robux aren’t accounted in something as inefficient as a blockchain though.

[TomerGamerTV]

Escrito originalmente por Aachen:

Escrito originalmente por TomerGamerTV:

So you want Robux but steam version?

Robux aren’t accounted in something as inefficient as a blockchain though.

but it sounds the same as he told it