>More likely is you go out and encounter someone with a $600 ship and you lose $60. This is so much more insidious than pay to win games. This is paying to stea

>More likely is you go out and encounter someone with a $600 ship and you lose $60. This is so much more insidious than pay to win games. This is paying to steal other people's money, and is going to be quickly optimized by anyone if there's actual profit volume to be captured. EVE Online already sort of worked like this a decade ago. It wasn't blockchain, but in-game currency was heavily laundered for RMT (real-money trading) purposes, and eventually became real money—largely via way of sales to casual players looking for a leg up. What you'd end up with is these elaborate power structures, with elite players at the top who would fly ships worth thousands each (supercapitals). These ships would typically comprise their own fleet elements, with separate comms, intel and command structure. A single Titan used to be worth about $10,000 USD, but by the time B-R5RB happened, that was no longer the case. "Total forces involved 7,548 participants. Damages amounted to an approximate real-currency value of $300,000-330,000 USD." [0] All of this was for control of territory called soverign nullsec space or 0.0, which would reap massive amounts of profit for whoever controlled it. These profits owed to the mining of rare elements on planetary moons that were later sold, which in turn drove a large portion of the game's economy. Leaders of these power blocs had crazy opportunities laid before them to turn their in-game wealth into real wealth. External gambling sites using in-game currency were huge for a while, and were probably central to some laundering operations. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_B-R5RB