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Epic Games Store will welcome games that make use of blockchain tech provided they follow the relevant laws, disclose their terms, and are age-rated by an appropriate group. Though Epic's not using crypto in our games, we welcome innovation in the areas of technology and finance.
As a technology, the blockchain is just a distributed transactional database with a decentralized business model that incentivize investment in hardware to expand the database's capacity. This has utility whether or not a particular use of it succeeds or fails.
That’s a kind of disappointing take. Innovation in distributed databases doesn’t have to require burning down the planet, hoarding scarce computational resources, nor fraudulent monetary schemes that sell open source (or even copyrighted) work.
