Ari Meilich of Decentraland,, open standards-based social VR world, recently posted an update to last week's successful selling of USD $25 million worth of virtual land via Ethereum (ETH). He addresses some of the controversy over how tokens were released (excerpts in comments of the original post here), which is a bit too inside baseball for me to have an immediate opinion.
What's more interesting to me is how many people bought virtual land, and how much -- which you can see in this chart from the blog post: Just over 1800 users. And if I'm reading the chart right, most users bought virtual land plots for the ETH equivalent of USD $24, but on the high end, 32 people bought virtual land worth USD $7200 or more.
Which, you know, is pretty impressive:
1800 is a solid base of early adopter pioneers who've literally bought into the virtual world that their purchases are funding -- and $25 million is way more than most indie games/MMOs are funded on a site like Kickstarter. I wouldn't be surprised if other game devs attempt a fundraiser like this.
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