My adventures in PIXEOS

So I've been working on a new series of modular synth videos, complete with higher production values, proper lighting and educational text banter ... but the first video in this series has consumed -weeks- of my free time building the sorta branded feel that can go the distance across multiple videos and platforms. All this in service of the already-pretty-awesome modular synth sample pack I'm releasing this year. Busy busy.

In the meantime...

I have very much been distracting myself with a new gaming ecosystem on the EOS blockchain, PIXEOS. I've been holding a stack of EOS since it was astronomically more expensive and less useful than it is now, so I dabbled and picked some up PIXEOS as an early investor. The platform will have a series of games released on it that utilize the token ... the launch game is Pixeos Paint, and it's a spin on the million dollar website / pixelmaster formula that rewards smart game theory and slightly curbs the early adopter predisposition through clever tokenization and staking rewards. Long and short: You purchase pixels on a canvas at 35% more than the previous owner and receive a portion of the profit when you pixel is in-turn painted over. The game theory behind getting somebody to paint over your pixels ... that is where the fascinating part lies. Do you paint meticulous works of art, hoping somebody will buy over your pixels to graffiti it (which turned The Godfather into Elton John)? Offensive symbols (check)? Flags (check)? It's sorta the best and worst parts of the internet, turned into a game, and it's maddeningly compelling. It's also been pretty lucrative, though your results may vary.

Early on this canvas (of which this the first of many) I consistently drew over anybody doodling in the giant framed black canvas I had created in the center of the board, waiting instead for somebody to draw something large and significant in there and raising the value of the pixels across my "frame" by quite a bit. I ... uh ... mostly got my wish:

Thank you large bathroom stall cock-drawing guy.
This is how we get paid in a downturn crypto economy, folks.