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Ready Player Earn: The Blockchain Gaming Revolution
Since the dawn of human history, every age has invented new opportunities for playing and earning. Ancient Greek athletes won gold drachmae for winning Olympic competitions. Seven hundred years later, a Roman charioteer amassed $15 billion (in today’s money) for victories at Circus Maximus races. Fast forward almost 2,000 years later; today, blockchain technology creates a new type of field for playing and earning.
Ready Player Earn documents “year zero” (2021-2022), when we first envisioned the social and economic ramifications of playing, earning, and owning in a metaverse. Optimists see this as a gaming revolution that can lift third-world nations out of poverty while increasing the wealth and happiness of those in the first world. Detractors argue that play-to-earn gaming is a revolting scam that cons people into purchasing worthless virtual land and artifacts (NFTs). Ready Player Earn explores both sides and analyzes the history of gaming and earning from the ancient world to the blockchain.
Dr. Mark Bowles wrote this book in real-time as he experienced year zero of the play-to-earn metaverse. It is an ongoing story, and this edition of the book ends its narrative amid a crypto winter in mid-2022. Is play-to-earn a revolution in the making or a revolting trend in gaming?
This book also contains a metaverse quest. Use the clues given by the Quest Master throughout the book to find his location in the metaverse.
Ready Player Earn is also one of the first books where readers can collect some of its original artwork as NFTs on OpenSea. Learn more about special NFT offers at ReadyPlayerEarn.io. Follow the book on Twitter or Instagram @ReadyPlayerEarn.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Author’s Note
Preface
Brave New World
A Book/Metaverse Quest
Part From the Ancient Greeks to Metaverse 1.0
Chapter Earning on the Field
Chapter Earning Offline in Tournaments
Chapter Earning Online for Professionals
Chapter Earning in Metaverse 1.0
Part A Trip to the Metaverse
Chapter Currency in the Metaverse
Chapter The Play-to-Earn Metaverse Model
Chapter Professions in the Metaverse
Chapter Traveling to the Metaverse
Part The Mafia Esports Encyclopedia
Chapter What is the Mafia Esports Organization?
Chapter Perspectives from the Mafia Inner Circle
Chapter The Mafia List of YouTube Influencers
Chapter The Mafia Top 40 Hit List of Play-to-Earn Games
Part Revolution or Revolting?
Chapter Play-to-Earn Games Are Revolting
Chapter Play-to-Earn Games Are a Revolution
“Crypto Winter” or “Winter of Our Discontent”?
Ready Player Earn documents “year zero” (2021-2022), when we first envisioned the social and economic ramifications of playing, earning, and owning in a metaverse. Optimists see this as a gaming revolution that can lift third-world nations out of poverty while increasing the wealth and happiness of those in the first world. Detractors argue that play-to-earn gaming is a revolting scam that cons people into purchasing worthless virtual land and artifacts (NFTs). Ready Player Earn explores both sides and analyzes the history of gaming and earning from the ancient world to the blockchain.
Dr. Mark Bowles wrote this book in real-time as he experienced year zero of the play-to-earn metaverse. It is an ongoing story, and this edition of the book ends its narrative amid a crypto winter in mid-2022. Is play-to-earn a revolution in the making or a revolting trend in gaming?
This book also contains a metaverse quest. Use the clues given by the Quest Master throughout the book to find his location in the metaverse.
Ready Player Earn is also one of the first books where readers can collect some of its original artwork as NFTs on OpenSea. Learn more about special NFT offers at ReadyPlayerEarn.io. Follow the book on Twitter or Instagram @ReadyPlayerEarn.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Author’s Note
Preface
Brave New World
A Book/Metaverse Quest
Part From the Ancient Greeks to Metaverse 1.0
Chapter Earning on the Field
Chapter Earning Offline in Tournaments
Chapter Earning Online for Professionals
Chapter Earning in Metaverse 1.0
Part A Trip to the Metaverse
Chapter Currency in the Metaverse
Chapter The Play-to-Earn Metaverse Model
Chapter Professions in the Metaverse
Chapter Traveling to the Metaverse
Part The Mafia Esports Encyclopedia
Chapter What is the Mafia Esports Organization?
Chapter Perspectives from the Mafia Inner Circle
Chapter The Mafia List of YouTube Influencers
Chapter The Mafia Top 40 Hit List of Play-to-Earn Games
Part Revolution or Revolting?
Chapter Play-to-Earn Games Are Revolting
Chapter Play-to-Earn Games Are a Revolution
“Crypto Winter” or “Winter of Our Discontent”?
429 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 29, 2022
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