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#pixel $PIXEL I have a friend who runs a gold farming

Tamala S · 2026-04-20T12:13:40.000Z

#pixel $PIXEL I have a friend who runs a gold farming studio. A couple of days ago, he sent me screenshots to show off, saying that each account has ten million pieces of wood stored. My first reaction was not to admire his perseverance, but to think that the game's economy is bound to collapse sooner or later. Infinite hoarding, no wear and tear, isn't this the most common way for blockchain games to die? As a result, Pixels has a clever approach to this. In their white paper, there's a design called Inventory Caps, which basically means that there is a limit to how much can be stored in your backpack. When you're busy chopping down trees and your slots are full, the system won't confiscate your items or stop you from continuing to play; it will just pop up a prompt: spend some tokens to expand your capacity. This move is quite clever. Gamers often have a bit of a hoarding mentality, always thinking that the broken stone in their bag might be useful in the future. Pixels leverages this obsession, making you willingly spend tokens to buy more slots. The more you hoard, the higher the rent for space, and the system doesn’t need to lock items or destroy them; it can simply draw back liquidity by collecting “rent.” If you think about it carefully, there are actually two layers of contraction here. One layer is that when you spend tokens to buy slots, the amount of currency circulating in the market decreases. The other layer is that the slots limit the amount of goods you can hoard, preventing an oversupply. With these two cuts, the line of inflation is effectively suppressed. Of course, there are also hidden dangers. If players spend their tokens to expand their warehouse, only to find that the items they've hoarded can't be converted into profits, that disappointment is even worse than losing money directly. So whether Inventory Caps can last depends not on the slots themselves, but on whether the subsequent content can meet the players' expectations. $BTC But at least for now, Pixels has kept the wood tsunami at bay with a few small backpack slots. It's much more clever than my friend's fully stocked wood. #btc @Pixels