Blockchain Blog — web 3
Is Pi Coin Worth Mining?
Posted by Micah Balazs on
Pi Coin operates a bit differently from traditional crypto assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum. The idea of the Pi Network was to allow people to mine crypto directly from a smartphone. With Pi gaining over 30 million users at its peak, this concept was clearly a smash hit!
Frustration and Skepticism from Meta
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The chief executive Mark Zuckerberg recently went on Joe Rogan’s podcast, where he told the popular comedian that building an immersive metaverse was his “holy grail.”
The Sandbox & Upland
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Upland and The Sandbox have very different ways of approaching the metaverse space. First and foremost are the graphics. The Sandbox has taken a more Minecraft-style approach with its polygons and large active user area. Meanwhile Upland has more in common with Google maps than a common video game. Upland features a Play-to-Earn style of getting users into their vision.
Upland Expands It's Metaverse Economy
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Upland has been quietly growing, maintaining, and expanding the metaverse economy. The play-to-earn platform is not only an acquisition game for buying and selling plots of the metaverse, it also has just under 400,000 users that earn and sell NFTs.
Portugal’s Porto is making history in Upland
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Portugal’s 2022 Primeira Liga Champions, FC Porto, announced a deal with Upland making them the first European soccer club to enter the metaverse. Located in the heart of Porto city, this soccer club is the 2022 Primeira Liga Champion and is the #1 team in Portugal!