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		thfuran on May 19, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Great Crypto Grift May Be Unwinding >You can have virtual game worlds (like a MMORPG) that can't ever be turned off, by nobody. How?

m3adow on May 19, 2022 [–]

I guess they meant that you can have a persistent and eternal database of the game state stored in a blockchain which everybody could host a game server with.

thfuran on May 19, 2022 | [–]

I guess you might be able to find a way to handle non-player actions but I think performance is going to be unresolvably terrible and scale quite limited.

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