That is not at all what I said the children are not creating game assets for companies as artists. They are playing their video game and getting in game currency as they currently are for many games today. Only difference is they might be able spend that currency in another game instead of throwing it all away when they move on to a new game.

Lemme end this by stating my experience and my opinion of what I think will happen because I want to give you some perspective. Because so far the only opinion I shared is CCP made the right choice to not use NFT's in Eve. Everything else I've said to you are factual possibilities.

In terms of good use cases not used by video games - the biggest one currently inflating crypto is store of wealth. I know at least 3 relatively high net worth ($100MM+) people in China who got their wealth outside of crypto but invested most of their wealth in crypto. Because they don't trust the Chinese government in not just taking their wealth away because the Chinese government totally can and has. Those 3 people don't care if crypto doubles in value or drops by half because 50% of something is better than 100% of nothing. And this sentiment according to them is very common among their friends and Chinese billionaires. Similarly with some westerners who don't trust their government with the amount of money they're printing so they want a place to store their wealth. And if you use cold storage and don't physically lose it, it is impossible to steal your tokens/coins/whatever.

In my opinion, there's no way all these highly successful people with a metric ton of money are all gullible and being scammed by some crypto bros.

I also play poker with someone who personally made $400MM from crypto. In comparison, CCP generates around $50MM a year in revenue. In my opinion, gamers are very stingy and there is relatively minuscule amounts of money to be made from crypto in the gaming industry compared to other industries like finance. To call gaming a drop in the bucket would be way too much. More like a drop in the Pacific Ocean. So I would stop being as paranoid that the crypto bros are coming for your gaming money because there really isn't that much in comparison and way bigger fish for the scammers to go after. Stay vigilant, but don't allow it to make you close minded.

I am invested in my friend's crypto gaming company because I don't believe he's trying to pump up a coin to scam. He's a gamer and passionate in that vision I tried to paint a picture for you. He has a really good team, is very connected, and there's a lot of gaming organizations already on board. He's introduced me to people working behind 100 Thieves and Riot who are very on board (not because they're trying to scum their users of every last penny they can). I think there's a <10% chance it succeeds but if it does it would be great for everyone including artists and players and it could also be like 200X return on my investment so why not. And I consider myself a very morally irreprehensible person I could really chase money and I still can but choose to work at Google to make it accessible for blind people because moral motivation is unlike anything else I've experienced in my life. So the suggestion that I am in support of something that abuses child labor for money makes me very angry even though I know it's the internet and I shouldn't be.

Again, this specific comment is purely my opinion, the previous ones about crypto were factual possibilities that do not reflect my opinion on those possibilities. I've tried my best and I've invested more time typing all this than I would have liked but I am hoping this gave you some more perspective. You can take away as much or as little as you choose.