The blockchain is a strange place.
Everything includingorange juice,milk,almonds, andeven fridgeshave been put on the blockchain.
But you could never put yourself on the blockchain and go for a walk, until now.
Thanks toCryptovoxels, you’ve got the option to now take a walk on the Ethereum blockchain.
According to its website, Cryptovoxels is a user-owned virtual world running on the Ethereum blockchain.
Think of it as Minecraft with more cryptocurrency and less color.
In fact, the projects lead developer Ben Nolan told Hard Fork thats where he got his inspiration.
To build in the virtual world you have to buy portions of land called parcels from the Corporation.
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Its not actually as dystopian as it sounds, though.
By July the world was opened to everyone.
According to Nolan, there are 711 parcels (buildings) held by numerous people.
This explains why I was really lonely walking around in the virtual world, no one else was awake.
On the other hand, it was quite serene.
you could teleport around the city from a building called The Center.
Clicking one of the pink boxes takes you straight to where you want to go.
So walking across it will take quite some time.
Theres alsoa lot of crypto-artto browse too.
Some entrepreneurial souls built Bitcoin Hall, a virtual museum to all things Bitcoin.
It includes a mural of the abstract of the seminal white paper.
Theres also what looks like a shrine to various Pepe memes.
And of couse theres a picture of Elon Musk smoking a blunt.
Someone even rebuilt theParisian puzzle mural by Pascal Boyartwhich had $1,000 worth of Bitcoin hidden in it.
As with most games, theres not a real need for Cryptovoxels.
You could even build something if youre really in to it.
Hard Fork has its own stage atTNW2019, our tech conference in Amsterdam.Check it out.
Story byMatthew Beedham
Matthew is the editor of SHIFT.
He likes electric cars, and other things with wheels, wings, or hulls.
