Calling this venture quixotic doesn’t capture it. Gaming is a mature and crowded market, led by blue-chip corporations, like Sony and Microsoft, and dominated by titans like PUBG: Battlegrounds, which has been downloaded more than one billion times.And Web3War? To date, about 5,500 people have signed up. Mr. Ryan is undaunted.“I think if we get to 10,000, watch this space,” he said. “It proves we’ve got a product that people want.”Mr. Ryan is a born optimist, he acknowledges, and that is true for most of the crypto faithful. This entails not just predicting a great future for blockchain, but ignoring its failures.In November, the Australian Securities Exchange canceled plans for a …
