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We expect the first integrations to make their way to the general public during the course of 2018, with some private betas kicking off Q3-Q4 this year.
It's early days, the tech is young, and we're nowhere near 'mainstream' yet but I'm excited we're finally able to release real-life 'dapps' to the general public so people can experience blockchain for themselves.
There's a lot more information coming up because it's my understanding Carsten only intended his tweet a bit as a 'teaser'. I had written this piece back in September when we entered live beta: https://blog.slock.it/blockchain-energy-p2p-sharing-project-... might give a bit more context.
https://blog.slock.it/blockchain-energy-p2p-sharing-project-...
Big deal you say! well, check this out: this png IS the game. It embeds the executable written in LUA. Try it for yourself - take the png I posted above, load it in pico8 then press escape: voila, full source code, sprite sheet, tracker data, etc. Type "RUN" and the game plays.
Pico8 (and its cousin voxatron) also contain an online cartridge browser that lets you discover and learn from everyone who contributed a cartridge.
Pico-8 is choke-full of these incredible little details that make all the difference. Unfortunately it's not open source itself, which some find a bit odd considering it encourages the open sourcing of the cartridge written for it. Good to see some projects such as TIC-80, LIKO-12 and now PX8 mixing things up a bit, that said it's still a nascent environment and let's not forget it's very much the arbitrary, sometimes amusing limitations imposed by the lead dev that makes these things fun.
I must say that seeing that link taken down was surprising, since Ethereum is at its core a programming paradigm for decentralized applications + a distribution mechanism.
In fact, the only 'thing' Ethereum borrows from bitcoin/altcoins is the implementation of decentralized consensus at scale, which we believe is applicable not just to currencies, but also the law, entrepreneurship, governance and many other fields.
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