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Yes, there will likely always need to be some work done on the dev side to enable any of those use cases. A lot of the tools/services to enable these and other uses are either being built or haven’t even been started yet, so for the moment the level of effort from individual teams is higher than it could be.

Trading game assets (items) outside of the mechanics of a game.

Loaning assets (items) to other players without the game developers building the loan functionality.

Clan memberships that are recognised across different games.

This makes many factually incorrect statements, over generalizations, and is filled with emotion. I don’t know where to start.

Tim Berners-Lee doesn’t own the term “web 3(.0)”.

Miners/validators charge a fee. Any cloud provider also charges a fee. DIY isn’t free either.

I’ll ignore DeFi because I know it doesn’t necessarily sit well with HN, but there are valid use cases for blockchain in Gaming.

10 years is a long time, yes. But there are a lot of things that need to be built, tested, and adopted. Blockchain moves slowly. So what?

Comparing anything to the iPhone is a terrible argument. The iPhone is arguably the biggest success (design, marketing, need) of the last 25 years and comparing anything to it doesn’t tell us anything other than “yes, iPhone good”.

If you’re a data analyst, then of course infra and sysops activities on cloud seem complicated. I’m sure a sysadmin could run/write sql, but would find the rest of your domain complicated too.

I’m not sure whether everyone else is getting poorly paid at Amazon, or whether my clique is just doing well, but I’ve found that my salary is (was) in line with the higher end of the market. The declining/flat stock price changes that though. I know quite a few Amazonians looking to leave once their two years are up*

* Amazon pay a signing bonus for the first two years in lieu of RSUs. The idea is that you could sell your RSUs to make up the difference. The problem is that, for anyone who started in the last two years, your RSUs won’t make up the difference between your base salary and what you were getting as a bonus.