Mitchell Stooksbury 3/3/2014

Eve online war

In an online game called “eve” A massive battle involving more than 2,200 players in main battle is underway in CCP's massively multiplayer online game Eve Online, easily the largest battle in the game's decade-long history, according to Alexander Gianturco, the CEO of Goonswarm Federation. An exact real-life currency figure of the in-game damage is not currently cemented, but unconfirmed estimates put the amount at more than $500,000. An automated battle report will be generated from server data once the battle concludes. The current battle stems from 'The Halloween War" which instigated multiple warfares between unofficial political alliances."But today's battle happened literally by accident: system control (sovereignty) was dropped in a key staging system due to a mistake," Gianturco told Polygon about the war underway in B-R5 sector in Immensea, a Nulli Secunda system. The in-game currency can be bought and harvested in the game and bought and sold in online markets such as Ebay or craigslist. The most powerful ship in the game requires a crew of 1000+ real people and over 12 weeks of continuous play to complete which is thousands of dollars in man hours alone.

Auroracoin

A new coin in the cyptocurency market has been buzzing the past few days upon its release; Auroracoin will have a total issuance of 21 million coins, half of which will be evenly distributed to every Icelandic citizen on the 25th of March. As Iceland’s population is around 320k people, each Icelander will get 31.8 AUR. The ticker, AUR, means "coin" in Icelandic. At the current rate of exchange, that would be around $477 freely given to each citizen! Needless to say, such a generous giveaway would make headlines, not just in Iceland but around the world. I think the main purpose for this coin is the Icelandic governments recent hault on fiat (paper/physical) money.