Atari Is Jumping on the Crypto Bandwagon (bloomberg.com)

Atari has announced plans to create a company token and potentially develop cryptocurrency-based casino platforms. The company, commonly associated with arcade classics such as Asteroids, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, and Pong, seems to believe new life can be breathed into the casino industry through cryptocurrency. From a report: "Blockchain technology is poised to take a very important place in our environment and to transform, if not revolutionize, the current economic ecosystem, especially in the areas of the video game industry and online transactions," Atari Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frederic Chesnais said in the statement. "Our aim is to take strategic positions with a limited cash risk, in order to best create value with the assets and the Atari brand."

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"Crypto" Bandwagon

[lgw]

Here on Slashdot, could be please not use "crypto" as an abbreviation for cryptocurrency? We lost the war for "hacker", and we may lose the war for "crypto", but can we at least not be idiots in Slashdot headlines?

Or are they just trolling the troll-in-chief?

[damn_registrars]

After all, the

like, super-stable genius

himself couldn't turn a profit on Atlantic City casinos, so surely it would be impossible for Atari geniuses to do it, right?

And yes I know this comment will be moderated down into oblivion for daring to call out the failure in chief (and being slightly off topic). Go ahead, bring it.

PLEASE don't redefine the word "crypto"

[swillden]

I'm shouting uselessly into the void, I realize, but I really wish people wouldn't redefine "crypto" to mean "cryptocurrency", rather than "cryptography", which is what it has meant for decades.