Metaverse Coins Ready For Breakout While Iceland Mocks Zuckerberg’s Performance

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Last Updated on 15 November 2021 by CryptoTips.eu

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Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson was happy to announce that famed podcaster Lex Fridman (who interviewed both Vitalik Buterin and himself already at intervals) finally had managed to talk to Neal Stephenson. The latter is in the news again because he is the popular sci-fi writer who originally coined the phrase metaverse in his first best-selling and breakthrough 1992 novel, Snow Crash.

Given that the term metaverse is becoming quite important as Meta is the new name for Facebook and the newest hype in Silicon Valley, the worldwide media has been focusing on the topic for a week. Several coins already have a lead in the metaverse sphere and are attracting interest from Wall Street. You should be able to expect that in the not too distant future, some of these coins, and their companies, could get an ‘overtake’ offer (just like WhatsApp and Instagram did in the past).

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Fortnite and Minecraft

Think of Metaverses as the games you know like Fortnite, Minecraft and Roblox. Virtual worlds where you are running through shooting things up, solving puzzles or building houses. In the blockchain (and Facebook) Metaverse however, those usages would be intertwined with your work and private lives as well, holding virtual meetings and doing online shopping in a fictional grocery store.

Known coins that have already developed such worlds are Decentraland, Loopring and The Sandbox, which are now on the radars of classic investors who don’t wanna miss out on the next growth hype. As to gaming, we would steer you first and foremost to Axie Infinity.

Icelandverse

This past week, classic media went all into Metaverse and its possibilities, with some claiming it could be the next dotcom boom. We’ll have to wait and see how that plays out but for now, the best video we saw so far explaining (or rather mocking) what Mark Zuckerberg thought of was Iceland’s new tourism ad, explaining the Icelandverse.

YouTube video

And what do we call this not-so-new chapter in human connectivity? The Icelandverse. Enhanced, actual reality, without silly-looking headsets.

The guide says, while endlessly mocking the Facebook CEO.

I believe that was funnier than the Jaron Lanier interview for the New York Times, which was also good in laughing at Meta, but biased as Jaron works for Microsoft.