30 – Tim Sweeney and the Metaverse
SIGGRAPH Spotlight
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The Future of Cryptocurrency
We need to make a big architectural decision about the model in which servers work together. There are two major possibilities. One is a federation model where a bunch of trusted companies and service providers agree to link their systems together so that all of their servers can interoperate. The other alternative is a decentralized model where something like the blockchain centrally ensures that anybody can participate. And there's a suggestion that the metaverse could be powered by the ledger.
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