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Originally Posted by Steve350
Nooseknot: "It's not about 'rake' free per se, there is some x cost at a given time to provide gameplay etc. "
If each person is playing on his own computer, what costs are you referring to here?
The development. So from today A to an asymptotically approach to B in the future that has "no rake" there is a development process. If you start the project right all of the critical stuff gets built up front, and then the necessary evolutions get less and less and the programmers move on from the project down to a small group of gate keepers etc. (I won't speculate beyond that). It's a trend that come from a project with the properly chosen "axioms".
I've had a good hand in those axioms as a special perspective/paradigm is necessary.
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Originally Posted by Chaos_ult
I'm fairly certain it's okay to discuss projects, especially ones in which you have no vested interest.
Most of the projects are not thinking yet about a core layer one protocol. I helped one project head in that direction which me and the actual programmer discussed the philosophy together over the last few years. It's a working demo, done by one person, but he happens to have a steller resume with good qualifications. Ex poker star employee, not disgruntled just moved on. Brought products to market, nothing major.
It's a humble project built from a perspective of morality for the game. He refuses to make it and ico for sale. It doesn't fit the model that he created, which is why his project does what no one else's does. He built it out of a library connection he visits when he can.
The rest of the projects I know of, some advertised here, fit on top of that layer.
This is how we designed the evolution of the industry.
That is the vision, and then we would have to discuss how we move from today's equilibrium to the catalyst that moves the industry to the new platform. It's a game theoretical problem/solution, and it can be viewed fairly formally and analyzed as such. Like cooperative/coalition games by the big industry "players" versus the smaller ones that might have a greater utility to cooperate but still out of selfishness.
Here I am thinking of all the emerging part crypto part p2p sites that are still centralized in nature, and also of sites like riopoker and luckychewypoker etc.
Even the beginning of the threat of the trend could have a major impact on the whole industry.