With the sudden pump in Mana, you would think this would be a good thing. We go into the inside details of running a business thats based completely in cryptocurrency and the ramifications of volatile pricing. Decisions need to be made and consequences are felt. How does a small business adjust to unpredictable pricing? How do we build a platform that many creators use and depend on that is reliable. Cultivating a platform with razor thin margin of error keeps us awake at night, maybe the community can provide some input here with some suggestions. In addition, we explore expanding MetaZone's offering to encompass the larger game development community.

On today's podcast we interview the CEO of Liquidity.Network to discuss GAS fees and solutions to the scalability problem. Arthur Gervais breaks down how Ethereum has a bottle neck and how many other blockchains suffer from the same inherent problem. Arthur helps understand why Ethereum can only handle a handful of transactions per second. What are the implications of a sidechain versus an off chain transaction. He also explains how Liquidity Network is able to achieve gasless transactions and what it could do for dapp developers like us. The onbaording process is an important aspect to get correct and we get into the details on how that works for any developer looking to reduce gas fees. Finally, we ask what its like to develop in both bull and bear markets and the differences between each.

We debrief from last week's discussion on how the stock market is in a huge bubble. Except the next day after recording our previous podcast, Bitcoin takes off and reaches the 2020 all time high. So this week we discuss if the possibility of Bitcoin becoming a true store of value during these uncertain times becomes a reality. Open world gaming always have a common thread in the grind mechanism. We discuss how and why this mechanism is needed in Decentraland and ways it could occur. One of the many ways is implementing consumables through ERC1155 NFTs. These tokens can serve to kickstart an economy within a game world and necessary to improve the daily active users. Finally, conspiracy theories are mostly a commentary on how fragile the human mind can be.

2020 has been a record year in many fronts. One of the more unescapable aspects staring us in the face is our diminishing economic model. The United States is pumping trillions of dollars into the economy and we wonder the impact of this diminishing effects on Bitcoin. Is a doom scenario necessary to catapult the value of Bitcoin? We also discuss the outcome of the Crypto World Cup as well as the Decentraland announcement that they're partnering with Samsung crypto wallet. Major Corona Zombies updates with some additional gameplay. Ethermon digital pet game launced an event and has had over 420 unique addresses participate!

Its been a long journey with Corona Zombies and it has arrived in its earliest form. The MetaZone team is working on a first party MMORPG style zombie game where landowners participate in hosting the apocalypse. Weapons will be NFTs, upgradeable, have progression and individual attributes. In this podcast we have the developer of MetaZone join us to discuss what's new on Corona Zombies and how we're enabling a multiplayer for persistent gaming in Decentraland.