In Year 2011, I first heard about BTC. At that moment, I thought BTC as something geek and would never be a true currency. As a curious person, I dug some coins by my SAMSUNG laptop and after a period of time just forgot BTC until I heard it again in Mid-2013 when the price rushed up to $1000 per coin. I thought BTC is a shell game then and never predicted that tons of Digital Coins would appear since then.
Without doubt, Chinese Internet Giants won’t miss the bus while other fields are already full of competitors. The Passage is not aimed to talk about BTC or other digital coins, just introduce some interesting so-called blockchain apps made by Netease and Baidu. A lot of people who regret over and over again that they didn’t catch up the chance to be rich overnight by BTC, rush into the APPs to make money in the blockchain games. The games show that blockchains has value in being used outside of simple currency trading. A token is issued to the user and this token gives the user full ownership over the object.
In Feb 5th, 2018, Baidu released Laici Dog which just pronounced as “Let’s go” in Chinese. After registration, the user can adopt a low grade dog for free. You can sell it for Laicicoins and buy another lovely dog who has been labelled such as epic\myth\excellence and identified a lucky number just as you operate in the stock market. You also can have your dogs breed. The game does not feature cash transactions. Netease has another game Zhaoai Cat, even released earlier than Laici Dog. Zhaocai Cat in Chinese cultural means that the cat will make fortunes come to you itself. Xiaomi has also released a game called Jiami rabbit, meaning “crypto rabbit”.
As we all know, Netease is a respectful company in Hangzhou China, where another Giant Alibaba is also located. As a traditional Game Corp, Netease decided to focus on a blockchain called planet after Zhaocai Cat was shut down. The planet is a platform where you can obtain Force by logging in, reading news , enjoying music, shopping on the app. Then The Force will auto run by itself and dig out BlackDiamond(ab.BD) which is similar to BTC. The Planet organizes activities on a regular basis to exchange BD to offline gifts or online benefits, someone even get pork which is made by Netease itself. The APP is a combination of Netease services and I think it’s a success.
Then Baidu soon Copied another APP called Du Yuzhou, meaning that Baidu Cosmos. Compared to the name planet, Baidu has greater ambitions than Netease. It calls the Netease force as Gravitation and the Netease BD as Element. However Baidu didn’t copy the way of playing, and introduced Q&A competition about love\sport\culture, etc. Until now, I haven’t found out the function of Elements.
The Games educates us about the blockchain. For me, I will play the Planet for a long time, but won’t have a long interest in The Baidu Cosmos. What about YOU? I hope more that the companies find more ways to use the tech for our life, not just the Games.
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