How Currency Obsession in Games Trained Us for Crypto
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Tell any person who has spent their fair share of time in RuneScape or World of Warcraft, and they will confirm: a grind, a rush, and, possibly the greatest surprise of all, an education.
Since long before crypto was a buzzword, gamers were already living in digital economies. They were getting educated to save, to trade, to speculate, even to panic sell all in virtual worlds.
Bitcoin is not the first cryptocurrency that people are obsessed with. It all started with goblin slaying and sword flipping of rare swords on the Grand Exchange. These game mechanics inculcated patterns and knowledge of crypto behaviour today, without a word.
And even to some of those same players? That…
