近日,因被称为“区块链猫”的虚拟宠物加密猫,卖出了一只近百万元的高价,区块链概念再一次甚嚣尘上。事实上,早在2013年,区块链就因为比特币的火爆进入大众视野,但一直缺少“杀手级”应用,此次爆发的加密猫,则是游戏应用和区块链的成功结合,有业内评价,游戏是与区块链最契合的领域,将推动区块链行业进入新阶段。
In recent days, a virtual pet encryption cat, known as a block-chain cat, has been sold at a high price of nearly a million dollars, and the block-chain concept has once again gained momentum. In fact, as early as 2013, the block-chain had entered public view because of Bitcoin’s fire, but there had been a lack of “killer-class” applications, and the encrypt cat had been a successful combination of game applications and block-chains, with in-house evaluations, and the game was the area best suited to the block-chain, and would push the block-chain industry into a new phase.
为什么一只虚拟宠物可以卖出如此高的价格?这得从加密猫基于的区块链技术说起。加密猫虽然是一个虚拟宠物游戏,但所依托的是虚拟货币以太坊,而以太坊、比特币等虚拟加密货币,是可以成为个人数字财产的存在,因此这意味着你如果拥有一只加密猫,这只猫也会如同你的个人财产一样,完全属于你自己。支撑这一切的,正是区块链技术。
Why does a virtual pet sell this price? This has to start with the block chain technology that encrypt cats are based on. The encryption cat is a virtual pet game, but it is based on a virtual currency that can be a personal digital asset, such as a virtual currency as Taiwan and Bitcoin, which means that if you own an encrypt cat, the cat will be yours, just like your personal property. It is the block chain technology that underpins all this.
区块链实际上解决的是信用问题。作为一种实时记录全部交易的去中心化公开数据库,在区块链上进行支付时,全网计算机可以共同验证这笔支付交易是否有效,确认支付后将写入区块链并产生一条不可篡改记录,区块链完整保存所有交易记录的特点让任何人都无法从中作假,因此你购买了一只加密猫,这只猫就真正属于你,不会被任何人抢走。
The block chain actually solves the credit problem. As a decentralized open database that records all transactions in real time, when payments are made on the block chain, a full-network computer can jointly verify the validity of the payment transaction, confirm that the payment will be written into the block chain and produce an irrevocable record, and that the complete preservation of all transaction records in the block chain will make it impossible for anyone to fake it, so you bought an encrypted cat, which is really yours and will not be taken away by anyone.
区块链技术可以和很多领域相结合,比如版权领域、智能合约、公益领域、金融领域、游戏领域等等。以公益领域来说,最大的桎梏就是信任问题,捐助方往往无法验证被捐助方信息、无法追踪捐款去向,即使机构方进行公开,捐助者也会存在质疑。而如果基于区块链技术,一旦将公益各环节中的所有信息记录在区块链上,这个过程将是不可逆的,任何人都可以查看验证,并且不可篡改,公益信任问题会迎刃而解。
Block chain technology can be combined with a number of areas, such as copyright, smart contracts, public goods, finance, games, and so on. In the public good, the biggest constraint is trust, and donors often cannot verify that they are informed by donors and cannot trace their contributions.
那么为什么说游戏领域与区块链最契合?一方面,目前区块链也存在僵化问题,如交易费用高、速度慢、扩展性差等,而加密猫的出现,仅仅几个小时就占据了以太坊超过15%的网络,甚至直接造成整个以太坊网络的拥堵,这既验证了区块链游戏的爆发力,也会起到倒逼区块链技术升级的作用。
So why does the field of play fit best with the block chain? On the one hand, there are rigidity problems in the block chain, such as high transaction costs, slow pace, poor expansion, etc., and the presence of cryptocats, which in just a few hours occupy more than 15 per cent of the network of the Etherm, even directly congesting the entire Etherm network, both proving the bursting power of the block chain game and acting as a force to reverse the technological upgrading of the block chain.
另一方面,游戏本身的变现能力,会吸引更多人群进入区块链领域。一款加密猫游戏,截止上线12天时,产生了7万只交易,交易额超过1100万美元,约7282万元人民币。这无论对于开发者还是玩家,都具有极大吸引力。而只有被主流人群所认可,区块链技术的价值才会得以真正发挥,因此在目前阶段,游戏无疑是区块链的“最佳CP”。
On the other hand, the ability of the game to realize itself attracts more people into the area of block chains. An encrypt cat game, up to 12 days on the line, generated 70,000 transactions, worth more than $11 million, and about RMB 72.82 million. This is extremely attractive for developers and players alike.
事实上,也已经有游戏公司开始提前布局,如上线不到一周时间,就收入超过500万美金的《加密狗》,据传是由蓝港互动所支持的一家美国工作室所开发。以及网易近期被爆出正在内测“招财猫”,也是证实了其正在探索区块链技术。
In fact, there have also been games companies that have begun to pre-position, such as the Encrypted Dog, which earns more than $5 million less than a week online, developed by an American studio supported by the Blue Harbour Interact. And the recent explosion of the Web, which is now measuring the “beneficent cat,” confirms that it is exploring block chain technology.
可以预见,不久后会有更多游戏公司入局,这对急需行业再爆发的区块链来说,是件好事。
It can be expected that there will be more play companies in the near future, which is a good thing for a chain of blocks that urgently needs to be re-emerged in the industry.
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