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photo: MARK RALSTON\/AFP (Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\nMojang Studios, the makers of the ever-popular Minecraft<\/em>is taking a page from the old US anti-drugs playbook<\/span>though it seems \u201cJust Say No\u201d seems to work much better for blockchain-based money making schemes than it ever did for narcotics. <\/p>\nThe Microsoft-owned studio wrote on its blog<\/span> Wednesday that NFTs in Minecraft \u201care generally not something we will support or allow.\u201d The company said that it was changing its Minecraft Usage Guidelines<\/span> to specify that blockchain tech will not be permitted to integrate in the Minecraft game client and cannot be utilized to craft NFTs based on any in-game content, whether that’s skins, items, or even mods.<\/p>\nThe devs wrote that blockchain technology’s sense of digital ownership is based on \u201cscarcity and exclusion\u201d which \u201cdoes not align with Minecraft values \u200b\u200bof creative inclusion and playing together.\u201d They added that third party NFTs may end up costing players who buy them, since they depend on a blockchain technology \u201cwho might disappear without notice.\u201d<\/p>\n
This actually did happen. A NFT project called blockverse<\/span>which was supposedly built for the Minecraft universe, scammed an estimated $1.2 million from early investors back in January from those who bought Blockverse characters in NFT form from sites like OpenSea along with a cryptocurrency called $Diamond. The project creators suddenly took all the money invested and deleted the project website, Discord, and Twitter account. If you don’t know, this is colloquially known as a \u201crug pull<\/span>,\u201d and it’s much too common in the crypto space.<\/p>\nThe devs did leave it open to potentially including blockchain tech in the future, but added \u201cwe have no plans of implementing blockchain technology into Minecraft right now.\u201d<\/p>\n