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  • NBA is going crypto, launching blockchain souvenirs from the maker of CryptoKitties

    From finance.yahoo.com

    video The NBA is putting its biggest dunks on a blockchain. The league, along with the NBA Players Association, announced on Wednesday the coming launch of NBA Top Shot, a home for blockchain-based digital collectibles. The idea is for fans to buy and trade unique digital video clips that commemorate “in-game moments from the NBA season, such as a Kevin Durant 3-point shot or Joel Embiid dunk,” the NBA says in a press release. To put this product in context: The whole value proposition of blockchain, the decentralized peer-to-peer technology that came about with bitcoin in 2009, is as a place to record ... (full story)

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TwoSense
Jul 31, 2019 5:28pm
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This would be cool and the kind of real world utility Ethereum needs. We're about to see some duos next season from the Lakers, Clippers, to the Nets, just to name a few. The season of the duos. Lebron and Anthony Davis will create plenty of highlights and being out there in L.A. there's a pretty good chance fans use the app on the west coast.

About the baseball app they mentioned. The only people that love baseball are the ones that played it growing up. I'm one of them. But I get how outside of us, there isn't much fun in going or watching those games. So I'd expect that app to fail. Basketball on the other hand, it's exciting to most.

Great Story!
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