Buying IRL pizza in a videogame with cryptocurrency

[Fasterthannothing]

Decentraland a blockchain world will have an event at 3/12 3/13 2am UTC where it looks like someone will be showing off a kiosk to order pizza IRL. This is definitely cool being able to use cryptocurrency to buy pizza in a digital world and have it delivered IRL.

 

https://events.decentraland.org/en/?event=9ad1f34a-4565-498d-bac5-835e9c6b6047

 

Didn't think it belonged in the news section but thought it was cool

[dizmo]

The person who spent that 10,000 BTC on the first pizza must have killed himself by now.

[Fasterthannothing]

Yeah that would be rough but he made history so that's kinda cool

[Jtalk4456]

that's just weird. buying things with crypto, fine, but why does it need to be in a digital world?

[Fasterthannothing]

Just now, Jtalk4456 said:

that's just weird. buying things with crypto, fine, but why does it need to be in a digital world?

Well I think the whole idea behind decentraland is to be able to have a digital mall/hangout type thing and being able to connect it to IRL stuff is showing the possibilities

[Jtalk4456]

10 minutes ago, SlidewaysZ said:

Well I think the whole idea behind decentraland is to be able to have a digital mall/hangout type thing and being able to connect it to IRL stuff is showing the possibilities

I get where you're coming from but the digital mall doesn't need to be a visual experience. People will lump it with far future ideas like the Oasis from Ready Player One.  And as soon as they lump it in there, it's a project for another day, another generation, and all but the most devoted stop caring entirely

 

[Moonzy]

39 minutes ago, dizmo said:

The person who spent that 10,000 BTC on the first pizza must have killed himself by now.

pizza >>>> BTC

 

and that's a fact

[Fasterthannothing]

24 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

I get where you're coming from but the digital mall doesn't need to be a visual experience. People will lump it with far future ideas like the Oasis from Ready Player One.  And as soon as they lump it in there, it's a project for another day, another generation, and all but the most devoted stop caring entirely

 

Well Oasis had to start somewhere and this place is growing at an enormous rate. Yes making a ready player one still world is a huge task but something like this is definitely the foundation.

[Jtalk4456]

34 minutes ago, SlidewaysZ said:

Well Oasis had to start somewhere and this place is growing at an enormous rate. Yes making a ready player one still world is a huge task but something like this is definitely the foundation.

not doubting you on concept, but the public interest is what drives the actual change, so they need to focus more on what people will be excited over instead of gimmicky moves that don't make sense at this point. Give people a smaller goal that they can see happening in the next few years, not a pipe dream 50 yrs down the rd

[Fasterthannothing]

33 minutes ago, Jtalk4456 said:

not doubting you on concept, but the public interest is what drives the actual change, so they need to focus more on what people will be excited over instead of gimmicky moves that don't make sense at this point. Give people a smaller goal that they can see happening in the next few years, not a pipe dream 50 yrs down the rd

I agree I think right now outside of them getting some companies to buy in most of the stuff is user generated. Honestly the entire community is what makes that place great. Everyone is super friendly and chill. Basically right now it's just a virtual hangout spot which with covid and everything people seem to really enjoy. 

[dizmo]

1 hour ago, Moonzy said:

pizza >>>> BTC

 

and that's a fact

I do love my pizza, but you could bend EmRata over that, for a year straight, on top of endless pizza, and it still wouldn't be worth $555 million dollars to me

[sub68]

the first thing someone bought with bitcoin was a pizza