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Knights Armament
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-06-23 02:19:46 UTC  |  Edited by: Knights Armament
CCP could turn the tranquility server into a crypto currency miner, we'd call it ISK coin, ccp can develop a game engine that also mines for coins, and awards players with this crypto currency, it could be a feature players can enable, that mines for the crypto, litecoin, bitcoin, or ccp crypto, with 20-50 thousand clients running eve, you could potentially create a large botnet for crypto mining, legally.

Quick edit, this could also function with dust.

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Mike Voidstar
Voidstar Free Flight Foundation
#2 - 2013-06-23 02:22:06 UTC
Perhaps I am missing something here.


Why would they bother with that?
Adunh Slavy
#3 - 2013-06-23 02:23:15 UTC
If I can buy RL pizza for shooting rats, and pay the mortgage for playing a vid game, +1. If not, -1.

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Knights Armament
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#4 - 2013-06-23 02:26:47 UTC
Adunh Slavy wrote:
If I can buy RL pizza for shooting rats, and pay the mortgage for playing a vid game, +1. If not, -1.


We could potentially all become rich, space communism.

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Erutpar Ambient
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2013-06-23 09:38:10 UTC
Knights Armament wrote:

We could potentially all become rich, space communism.


If everyone is rich, then nobody is rich. Communism~
Goti fase
Faulcon de Lazy
#6 - 2013-06-23 10:28:57 UTC
Errrr.....What?
Knights Armament
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#7 - 2013-06-24 06:40:04 UTC
Erutpar Ambient wrote:
Knights Armament wrote:

We could potentially all become rich, space communism.


If everyone is rich, then nobody is rich. Communism~



star trek, everyone was rich.

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Azrael Dinn
Imperial Mechanics
#8 - 2013-06-24 06:58:52 UTC
What the..... Shocked

After centuries of debating and justifying... Break Cloaks tm
Shiera Kuni
Electric Machete
#9 - 2013-06-24 16:49:20 UTC
What is this, I don't even..

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Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#10 - 2013-06-24 17:06:06 UTC
Knights Armament wrote:
Erutpar Ambient wrote:
Knights Armament wrote:

We could potentially all become rich, space communism.


If everyone is rich, then nobody is rich. Communism~



star trek, everyone was rich.

Then why didn't anyone of them have any money?
Daugar Draaken
EBSTF Holdings
#11 - 2013-06-25 11:10:40 UTC  |  Edited by: Daugar Draaken
I strongly support this idea for non-eve political reasons. The whole BitCoin debate is fascinating and CCP could easily explore the positive consequences of this development. CCP could profit by becoming a hub for trade in BitCoin, by linking this to EveCoin. I do not suggest ISKoin to linked to BitCoin, since BC is still quite volatile.

Do however note that such a step would have legal consequences - in some countries local states look with hollow eyes at the emergence of mostly unaccountable monetary transmission/ payment schemes. If ISKcoin, or something like that, were one day used to allow some minors (miners haha) in the US to buy methamphetamine, the PR consequences might be bittersweet for the franchise.

To all people "that don't get it", please study how BitCoin works. The topic is truly fascinating, and the similarities with ISK are rather poignant. Note that ISK essentially is a form of fiat digital currency already, since participants in the game would already be capable of using it for unregistered international transactions and dubious commerce (where the dubious aspect would be that governments can't tax it).

Note that we may soon find ourselves in an international political climate where local states become so panicked by international economic foibles that they engage CPP in attempts to "cut down on transmission of digital currencies". In the past stranger things have happened in the economic world's stage.
Berluth Luthian
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#12 - 2013-06-25 11:58:34 UTC
Bitcoin is a scam. It's a tiny market that a number of people have already manipulated now. In the same way margin traders in jita can inflate or crash prices for their own benefit.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#13 - 2013-06-25 12:27:06 UTC
I thought buttcoins were used almost entirely for money laundering and drugs? Do we really want CCP to go down that rabbithole?