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Knowledgeable and technical people should also actively speak out to offset the adverse effects caused by scammers.
You don't need to know IT expertise, you don't need to practice hard to become an e-sports player, as long as you play games, you can make a lot of money. Recently, this kind of "flickering propaganda" that is full of suspicious atmosphere at first hearing has appeared frequently on the Internet. According to reports, these games call themselves "blockchain games" under the banner of "meta-universe", claiming that as long as they spend money to exchange designated virtual currency in the game, they can make money while playing the game, and the monthly yield is even as high as 100%.
People who are not good at it may think that these games have a high technical content. However, the reporter's investigation found that many "blockchain games" on the market are just ordinary web games with a layer of "spending money to buy coins" program shell. On the one hand, the "virtual currency" based on the blockchain itself is not recognized by China's laws, and once the rights and interests of investors are damaged, it is difficult to get relief. On the other hand, what players spend money on in the "blockchain game" may be "air coins" that have no blockchain technology content and are purely presented in the form of bookkeeping. Once the bookmaker "runs away with the bucket", the player will not even have a little "data residue" left in his hand.
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It is not difficult to see that these "blockchain games" do not create value, so it is impossible for people to "play and earn". The only thing that can really make money from it is the huge deception behind the harvest of "leeks". At first, the crooks may give early players a bit of a taste of sweetness, but essentially fill the "hole" of the first entrant with the money paid by the late entrant. Once a scam has absorbed enough money, the manipulators behind the scenes will immediately terminate the payment and flee. And what they leave the player with, I am afraid, is only infinite regret.
This set of gameplay that promises super high returns and engages in Ponzi schemes is neither new nor clever. However, the greed in the depths of human nature, coupled with the "packaging" of various cutting-edge scientific and technological concepts, allows scammers to always cut new "leeks". "Pie will not fall from heaven", this truth is well known. However, the "metaverse" and "blockchain", which are both familiar and unfamiliar to ordinary people, often disturb the cognition of non-professionals, making people mistakenly think that "Cyber Sky" can really drop the "electronic pie".
For a period of time, these concepts have frequently appeared on the Internet, as if anyone can talk about topics such as "the development prospects of the metaverse" and "the application space of the blockchain". However, people who truly understand the signifier and signifier of the "metacosm" and understand the principles of blockchain technology account for only a very small proportion of the population. The public's "seeming understanding" of these concepts makes them extremely confusing, and the liars can "flicker" a few words to make people believe that the laws of reality can be distorted. However, just as man cannot grasp his hair and leave the earth, the concept of science and technology created by human beings within the existing framework is doomed to break the basic laws of physics and economics. As long as this principle is kept in mind, even the most fancy deception will be difficult to deceive us.
As the concept of the "metacosmology" became popular around the world, many people have played the wishful thinking of "making quick money" under its name. The "blockchain fraud" that has been silent for a while has also been stirred up by the opportunity. However, the more the crooks change their ways, the more vigilant people are against the "metaverse" and "blockchain". In the long run, there will be fewer and fewer "leeks" for scammers to harvest, and these concepts themselves will be affected. For those who really study the "metacosm" and blockchain technology, this is a very unfortunate and aggrieved thing. In this regard, people with knowledge and technology should also actively speak out, offset the adverse effects caused by scammers, and reverse the atmosphere of society blindly chasing hot spots, unwilling to "fall behind", but not seeking to understand.
Written by Yang Xinyu
Editor/Ren Guanqing
Produced by China Youth Daily and China Youth Network