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Eve Online Economist Dismisses Bitcoin, Declares Scam
CCP Games’ in-house economist, Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson, has the responsibility of keeping an eye on Eve Online and the company’s multiple currencies, making sure everything runs swimmingly. Eve Online is a massive multiplayer game that uses digital currencies such as ISK, Auram and Plex. These can be purchased or sold for real money.
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The Plex currency is used to redeem a full month of gameplay in the Eve Online universe, as well as purchase video cards as part of CCP’s new experiment.
At this year’s Fanfest which took place between May 1st and May 3rd, Plex proved itself functional as a working currency.
Dr. Gudmundsson compared Plex’s stability to the volatility and lack of decentralization of bitcoin. He stated:
“I find it very interesting that people that are behind the cryptocurrencies, they seem to distrust governments. So they create a system that is supposed to be closed, just a fixed amount of money, and nobody can create fiat monies, no bankers will benefit from it. And yet, they don’t tell you who is behind it, and they’re telling you the code is secure.”
The economist believes that the people need an authority that backs their money. Bitcoin offers no such centralized authority. He goes on to compare digital currencies to scamming systems, where a trust is built and secure, then suddenly everything goes to hell when the makers cash out.
Gudmundsson brings up that bitcoiners can’t prove the digital currency is not a scam, saying:
“…I just ask, can you prove to me that this is not a scam? And they say yeah because the code is safe.”
The economist feels that there is no proof that bitcoin is not a scam, as well as that there is a lack of proof that bitcoin’s coding can not be altered.
With Plex, on the other hand, he says that it is redeemable for future currencies his game will require, meaning that they never go bad. His concern is that bitcoin may one day stop being worth anything to transact with.
What sort of scam do they mean? It’s not premined. The code doesn’t have backdoors. How exactly do you scam people with it?
Ignorant assertions are ignorant.
lel, the code IS safe, he can look at it himself
You would think the bitcoin community could put this question to rest by providing proof or trusted analysis by an independent party of some kind so that non-coders can trust btc.
That’s a great idea. As it is right now it’s only the people who understand the code who are in the know that it’s fine. Not that that’s a small amount of people or anything.
Scanning the EVE Forums for mentions of Bitcoin (https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=search&search=bitcoin) it seems they match Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson’s stigma towards bitcoin. It’s simply a matter or ignorance as BillYeager commented prior. Not their fault, bitcoin is still pretty new and the EVE community is pretty tight knit. It’ll grow on people as bitcoin becomes more and more accessible and as EVE players start to use it and have good experiences with Bitcoin. Slow and steady, infection from within.
Currently seems the majority of EVE players are at the phase of deciphering bitcoin where they’re trying to understand who’s behind bitcoin, thinking it’s a set team of secret developers with a master plan. Dr. Eyjolfur Gudmundsson claims the secret founders of bitcoin will cash out one day and collapse bitcoin; If there is a secret founding force behind bitcoin, it probably is the government ironically ( http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1geufi/nsa_paper_1996_how_to_make_a_mint_the/ )
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