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AMD and Industry Partners to Develop New Blockchain-based Gaming Platforms
AMD joins Blockchain Game Alliance, and partners with Robot Cache and ULTRA to promote the development and proliferation of blockchain-based PC gaming.
AMD) today announced that it has joined the Blockchain Game Alliance (BGA) and forged partnerships with leading technology providers to help promote the development and proliferation of new blockchain-powered gaming platforms.
AMD also announced partnerships with leading blockchain technology providers, Robot Cache, which launched their online gaming marketplace in June, and ULTRA, which plans to launch its online gaming marketplace in the coming months. Designed to provide optimal cryptographic compute performance with AMD Ryzen™ processors and AMD Radeon™ graphics cards, these marketplaces will provide gamers with new opportunities to buy, sell and share digital video games, as well as offer efficient, new distribution channels for publishers. In addition, Robot Cache will use secure, high-performance AMD EPYC™ processors in the back-end servers powering its platform, and ULTRA will use AMD EPYC™ processors for its blockchain to facilitate block producing.
“Blockchain technology brings broader choice, security and flexibility to both gamers and publishers,” said Joerg Roskowetz, Head of Blockchain Technology, AMD. “Next-generation blockchain game platforms will give gamers access to exclusive online content, and provide new ways for them to truly own it. They will also provide game publishers with new channels to distribute digital game content.”
“The Blockchain Game Alliance is gathering some of the world’s top blockchain innovators and content developers to bring players the best of what this technology has to offer,” said
Leading the Blockchain Gaming Charge
Providing incredible compute performance and security for peer-to-peer transactions, AMD is helping to enable the next generation of blockchain-based gaming platforms via:
- Blockchain Innovation – AMD is at the forefront of the blockchain evolution, providing the underlying compute technology to enable a broad range of new blockchain-powered applications, services and use cases spanning industries ranging from gaming and cloud computing to the
Internet of Things , healthcare, and others. - Efficient, High-performance CPUs and GPUs – AMD is in a unique position to offer the best combination of high-performance CPUs and GPUs for demanding blockchain workloads.
- Robust Security – Designed to address today’s increasingly complex and sophisticated security threats, AMD Secure Technology puts protection right on the processor providing an additional layer of robust security.
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#5742226 Posted on: 12/17/2019 08:56 AM
So embarrassing reading the answers here, I thought some of you would understand some of this tech jargon , but no , you are just like me, i have a block between my ears on this article :p
I now do see some have more between their ears than i do
So embarrassing reading the answers here, I thought some of you would understand some of this tech jargon , but no , you are just like me, i have a block between my ears on this article :p
I now do see some have more between their ears than i do
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#5742333 Posted on: 12/17/2019 04:35 PM
Sounds like it's more about driving blockchain hype then using them to solve an actual need. You need the hype so investors get excited and give money to anyone doing something with the world "blockchain" in the title.
Sounds like it's more about driving blockchain hype then using them to solve an actual need. You need the hype so investors get excited and give money to anyone doing something with the world "blockchain" in the title.
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#5742367 Posted on: 12/17/2019 07:38 PM
stoped reading after the Blockchain buzzwords...
stoped reading after the Blockchain buzzwords...
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#5742473 Posted on: 12/18/2019 12:34 AM
Blockchain is the underlying technology thats used by Crypto Currency, however it does not necessarily have to mean thats all it can ever be used for.
Blockchain in general is a method to authenticate transactions without a central authority, creating a distributed transaction ledger.
It could be used for all sorts of other things, but I still don't really see the gaming connection either way.
Yes, decentralization is one of the main benefits of blockchain technology. Instead of a single copy of a ledger on a server run by the company, each client would have its own copy to work with and can secure it by the combined computing power of the network. As far as gaming goes, this could be a way of decoupling company servers from the always-online gaming model that's becoming increasingly prevalent nowadays - instead of centralized company servers, it would be peer-to-peer, verified by each player.
This could theoretically improve security and prevent frauds. Someone trying to cheat by modifying the game or game data would no longer be synched with the blockchain and would be invalidated (the only way to cheat would be to have more computing power than the entire worldwide network of players). It would also reduce the cost of running the servers, saving game companies money on maintenance and upgrades, and it could alleviate the fear of a game becoming unplayable because the central server went down. In some ways, it's like distributed computing, such as folding@home - why run folding simulations on costly supercomputers when you can get millions of ordinary people to do it for free?
Of course this is just open speculation, but the main benefit I see is using blockchain for a distributed, peer-to-peer gaming network that is always available and can eliminate cheating without the need for a central server. I see a lot of people talking about monetization and payment, but I see no relation to that here (let's not confuse blockchain with Bitcoin).
Blockchain is the underlying technology thats used by Crypto Currency, however it does not necessarily have to mean thats all it can ever be used for.
Blockchain in general is a method to authenticate transactions without a central authority, creating a distributed transaction ledger.
It could be used for all sorts of other things, but I still don't really see the gaming connection either way.
Yes, decentralization is one of the main benefits of blockchain technology. Instead of a single copy of a ledger on a server run by the company, each client would have its own copy to work with and can secure it by the combined computing power of the network. As far as gaming goes, this could be a way of decoupling company servers from the always-online gaming model that's becoming increasingly prevalent nowadays - instead of centralized company servers, it would be peer-to-peer, verified by each player.
This could theoretically improve security and prevent frauds. Someone trying to cheat by modifying the game or game data would no longer be synched with the blockchain and would be invalidated (the only way to cheat would be to have more computing power than the entire worldwide network of players). It would also reduce the cost of running the servers, saving game companies money on maintenance and upgrades, and it could alleviate the fear of a game becoming unplayable because the central server went down. In some ways, it's like distributed computing, such as folding@home - why run folding simulations on costly supercomputers when you can get millions of ordinary people to do it for free?
Of course this is just open speculation, but the main benefit I see is using blockchain for a distributed, peer-to-peer gaming network that is always available and can eliminate cheating without the need for a central server. I see a lot of people talking about monetization and payment, but I see no relation to that here (let's not confuse blockchain with Bitcoin).
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This is, of course, the answer. But the fact that all blockchain does is encrypt a spreadsheet cell means that any gaming company could have implemented this themselves at any time. And the fact that blockchain technology is free and open source means they could have done it for free.