YouTube Gaming Boss Leaving To Join Crypto Company (gamespot.com) 27
YouTube Gaming's top boss, Ryan Wyatt, is leaving the company to join the cryptocurrency company Polygon Studios. Wyatt is expected to depart YouTube at the end of February. GameSpot reports: Wyatt, a former higher-up at Major League Gaming, joined Google in 2014 and has been the global head of gaming at the company since then. "I will miss YouTube dearly, but it is time for me to pursue other endeavors in life and where my passions are taking me," Wyatt said. "I am fascinated by blockchain app development and am beyond thrilled to enter the web3 space."
Wyatt is becoming the CEO of Polygon Technology Studios where he will head up efforts to grow the "developer ecosystem" by way of investment, marketing, and developer support. "I'll be leading the Polygon Studios organization across Gaming, Entertainment, Fashion, News, Sports, and more. I'm excited to work with developers and builders across the Polygon ecosystem and I'll be sharing more about my journey over the coming months," Wyatt said.
Wyatt said in a video that he understands the issues and concerns people have with blockchain video games. One of the leading blockchain games today is Axie, and Watt said a lot of people don't quite understand what the game is really all about or believe it's not for them. But Watt said he foresees a future with MMOs, shooters, and RPGs in the blockchain space that people will be excited about. Engadget adds that Jamie Byrne, senior director of creator partnerships, and vice president and global head of product partnerships, Heather Rivera, are departing too.
"Like many other companies, we've seen some of our people choose a new direction in the new year," YouTube told Tubefilter. "We are also fortunate to have a deep bench of talented leaders to take our business forward. We thank Heather, Jamie, and Ryan for their incredible contribution to YouTube over the years and can't wait to see what they do next."
Wyatt is becoming the CEO of Polygon Technology Studios where he will head up efforts to grow the "developer ecosystem" by way of investment, marketing, and developer support. "I'll be leading the Polygon Studios organization across Gaming, Entertainment, Fashion, News, Sports, and more. I'm excited to work with developers and builders across the Polygon ecosystem and I'll be sharing more about my journey over the coming months," Wyatt said.
Wyatt said in a video that he understands the issues and concerns people have with blockchain video games. One of the leading blockchain games today is Axie, and Watt said a lot of people don't quite understand what the game is really all about or believe it's not for them. But Watt said he foresees a future with MMOs, shooters, and RPGs in the blockchain space that people will be excited about. Engadget adds that Jamie Byrne, senior director of creator partnerships, and vice president and global head of product partnerships, Heather Rivera, are departing too.
"Like many other companies, we've seen some of our people choose a new direction in the new year," YouTube told Tubefilter. "We are also fortunate to have a deep bench of talented leaders to take our business forward. We thank Heather, Jamie, and Ryan for their incredible contribution to YouTube over the years and can't wait to see what they do next."
Late to the party (Score:2)
He should have moved a couple of years ago before everything crypto started to collapse.
Nobody uses crypto anymore, it's so 2020 (Score:3)
There's no use cases for bitcoin aside from money laundering and remote payment to people who can't get --cough-- bank accounts that are not better done by easily available means. No one has ever found one. It's mainly pump and dump and people trying to exfiltrate and hide wealth in China or the USA .
There's a tonne of efficient ways to make remote payments and those actuslly work for storing wealth in a stable currency.
Oh sure you could imagine that refugees or people in dictatorial countries have rationa
It's going to get killed off (Score:2)
Goto crypto51.com and see what the hourly cost of a 51% attack is. For most currencies it's about $10 / hour or less. For the big ones like bitcoin it's around $1million per hour. Any large government could come in a fuck up bitcoin for $10 million or less per day if they wanted to. Just grind it into the ground for a month. It wouldnt even cost that since the govt has huge numbers of unused computers and already pays to heat buildings . Plus they would pick up all the block rewards. And as miners g
Good luck to him (Score:2)
He obviously makes good career decisions (youtube gaming LOL)
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Ugh, and nothing was lost. (Score:2)
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I wish NFTs were just that. Issue is, most NFTs I've seen are either just trashy "art" or just plain stolen art.
Still better than the crap that passes for "modern art".
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The problem is that I don't even know if we are in a bubble.
The NFT bubble will pop once people realize that an NFT is not actually ownership, and that I can make a second NFT for the exact same object and sell it again.
Google managers (Score:2)
Some high level managers started leaving Google to try their hand at the startup world. Seems like a lot more are doing it.
Good move (Score:2)
Maybe he'll be as successful with it as with YouTube Gaming. Which must be real successful as I haven't heard about it until today. Despite both playing a lot of games and also spending much time on YouTube.