A Strategy to Enhance Traffic on Ethereum Virtual Worlds.
Introduction
Shopping or socializing in virtual reality worlds are less far fetched than you think. The reliability of smart contracts on the means that powered virtual world create a trustable space for people to spend, set up their , and participate in a decentralized economy.
powered virtual worlds such as decentraland and cryptovoxels are already being developed. Real estate in these worlds are limited and lands that are located “premium areas” can easily cost thousands of dollars at the time of writing.
Anchor Stores
In shopping malls, anchor stores are stores with broad appeals, such as Macy’s and Forever 21. They are often large retail chains with great reputation. Shopping malls will place these anchor stores with less popular stores in between them. This will make visitors will spend more time as they walk across the entire mall to reach the other exciting end. This also allows more public exposure for the less popular stores.
virtual worlds could apply the same strategy to make visitors stay longer and explore more parts of the world by placing the most exciting content with some distance apart. Currently, on decentraland, land value spikes exponentially as one approach closer to Genesis Plaza.
This will also encourage more speculative land and economic activity between highly trafficked areas such as advertisements. If you happen to own a piece of land in between 2 highly trafficked areas, your land’s value may be dependent on the anchor’s success.
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Today, , the international engineering conference focused on bitcoin and blockchain research, released its program for the 2017 edition. The conference, to be held , California, in the first weekend of November, will also introduce a new side event this year: , a bootcamp for starting bitcoin developers.
“The program is extremely interesting because it delivers cutting edge research on different blockchain scalability approaches, fungibility, consensus, data propagation, alternative techniques for handling blockchains and many other topics,” said Anton Yemelyanov, chair of the Scaling bitcoin Planning Committee.
After events in Montreal, Hong Kong and Milan, the fourth edition of the Scaling bitcoin conference is taking place at Stanford University on November 4 and 5 of this year.
Where the first two editions of Scaling bitcoin were mainly focused on scaling and scalability, the third edition broadened the scope of the conference to include a more diverse set of topics. This trend will continue in Stanford, where talks will range from highly technical topics concerning privacy and fungibility, to fee markets and fee estimation, censorship resistance and more.
“bitcoin is the origin of all distributed ledger technology,” said Yemelyanov. “Scaling bitcoin has been fortunate to act as a vehicle for bringing the audience technologies such as Segregated Witness and MimbleWimble, all of which have been adopted or incorporated into various blockchain projects. We hope that other material presented by our participants will be of similar value and help the industry advance the research and development of blockchains.”
Yemelyanov added that another key goal for Scaling bitcoin conferences is to bring engineers and other technical minds together in a physical space where they can discuss their work in person.
“It is through collaboration where a lot of ideas are born and have potential of becoming reality,” he said.
In addition to the conference itself, Scaling bitcoin is also introducing a two-day technical bootcamp for experienced developers getting into bitcoin: bitcoin Edge.
This nonprofit initiative is an effort to help scale the development capacity of the industry, Yemelyanov explained:
“One of the approaches of helping the industry scale is to scale the much needed development capacity of the industry. There is a clear talent deficit and we are trying to help all industry participants by running a nonprofit workshop that will allow developers to gain complete understanding of primitives that comprise bitcoin and blockchains in general and be able to start working in this field.”
bitcoin Edge will be led by well-known bitcoin developers and academics Anditto Heristyo, Ethan Heilman, John Newbery, Karl-Johan Alm, Nicolas Dorier, Thaddeus Dryja and Jimmy Song. They’ll introduce participants to a range of technical bitcoin-related topics, including Elliptic Curve cryptography, transaction structures, difficulty calculation and adjustments, and much more.
This workshop will take place on the November 2 and 3. For more information on the bitcoin Edge initiative, visit.
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