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The new EVE MMO uses blockchain tech to create a "boiling financial hellscape"

EVE Frontier is one of the most interesting, and foreboding, projects I've seen in years.

(Image credit: CCP Games)"If people are already building such impressive features using this first iteration of the toolset," says Pétursson, "that bodes extremely well for the future of this idea of creating an MMO which can be modded by players server-side, not just client-side." Pavlo Savchuk That's interesting because adding the ability for every player organisation to become its own central bank adds a layer of potential chaos to EVE's already mostly player-run economy that I can't wait to see play out. And hey, at least if a major government does decide it doesn't want to compete with a virtual universe filled with bizarre, spaceship-based central banks, it'll make for an interesting series of news posts on PC Gamer dot com.

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