So what's your share of the mazuma?

I wish.

*Snorts* No comment.

"I'm in the wrong racket."

Indeed...

*warning wild guess ahead*

So...players PAY for a blockchain 'game' (either directly, microtransactions, and/or ad revenue/data sale)..and their phone resources gets used for blockchain generation/distribution..while the original company profits instead of the phone users.....let me know how far off base I am.

This smells suspiciously like the web/browser 'app' that secretly uses visitor PC resources to mine cryptocurrency while they are on the website....not tasty squab at all

That it do...

The Tamagotchi lives again...

There have to be some seriously lonely, messed-up people buying these apps.

Welcome to 2018.

ok so I just went to the site....

This is a very thinly veiled way to try and bring cryptocurrencies mainstream...and likely to succeed to a decent degree. Given the *cough*marketing*cough* err news coverage.

It requires you to setup a proprietary digital wallet and invest in a proprietary cryptocurrency to play the game.

The setup required also points towards (but does not confirm) some of my guesses. PC/MAC desktop/laptop required, one of two web browsers required. No mobile support. No proprietary client/app like most games. I would put a fair wager that the site will use cycles in player GPUs for their own ends (mining/blockchain generation) as they have to be signed in to the digital wallet to play. Also my GPU usage spiked when on their webpage that only had a few simple static images on it, make of that what you will.

Sure the kitties are cuteish, but...there are far more cute imaginary kitties all over online, and lots of real ones that need loving homes. If I am going to toss my money at something it will be artists for the imaginary kitties they bring us and/or pet rescue groups.

I may have to commission parody art based on various other kitties/furs.

TL:DR They make people pay for the privilege of having their PC resources used unknowingly, and cushioning/inflating the erratic cryptocurrency market so those heavily invested in it and reliant on its success do not have to.

No tasty squab here just a steaming heap $6.7 mil and growing that would make PT Barnum proud.

PT Barnum and H.L. Mencken... :P

How Can Squab Be Real If Our Cats Aren't Real?

Do Imaginary Cats Dream Of Electric Squab?

least cyber kitties aren't trouble makers XD !! ^v^

Give 'em time. Give 'em time.

Why not get an *actual* imaginary cat, instead of a virtual one?

Worked for Elwood P. Dowd! 'Course, that was a rabbit...

Yeah, then everyone who made fun of him started turning up dead, stomped by something with giant feet.

So if you get a crypto cat will they randomly "type" letters/#'s and symbols while your typing the next Great Novel, or the business report that's due tomorrow?

That, and spontaneously encode your files into a secret format, which they won't decode until you give them virtual feesh.

So that's what the code at the end of the blockchain means; b|0ck^c0mPUter/`=☆+fish&or$squab?

Yus! ^.^

I have a feeling that this is going to end badly. In a not fun way.

Best observed from a distance, yes.

More like from low orbit. I have a feeling that a lot of people are going to screwed over by this. The mounting issues with Fleshboo er, Facebook and it's kin, is only the beginning.
Smash cut to: O'neill space colony being dropped onto Facebook headquarters.

We don't live that good.

I was just thinking of P.T. Barnum and his "This way to see the Egress" trick.

That do come to mind...