@inproceedings{3fa3898668b04cd0a367e8f80579eb00,
title = "Fairness by Design: The Fair Game and the Fair Price on a Blockchain-Based Marketplace",
abstract = "It is often believed that blockchain technologies can ensure fairness in online transactions and interactions. What does {\textquoteleft}fair game{\textquoteright} mean in a blockchain-based game, which rules cannot be broken by design, and how does this relate to the concept of a {\textquoteleft}fair price{\textquoteright}? In this chapter, I use the example of the best known blockchain-based game CryptoKitties (2017) to explore the idea of a {\textquoteleft}fair price{\textquoteright} both in theory and in practice, and to connect it to the concept of fairness in games. I turn to the essential works on fairness and cheating in game studies and check whether game ethics is applicable to so-called {\textquoteleft}money games{\textquoteright} on blockchain. Theoretically, decentralization of blockchain technology supports the idea of fairness; however, in practice, the game follows the same grey moral code as the preceding online games and virtual worlds. I suggest that the applicable understanding of fairness can be found in the {\textquoteleft}code is law{\textquoteright} principle that underlines both normative game studies and the ideology of blockchain.",
keywords = "Blockchain, Blockchain games, Fairness, Technology ethics, Virtual economies",
author = "Alesha Serada",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; Media, Arts, and Design Artificial Intelligence conference, MADAI 2020 ; Conference date: 19-06-2020 Through 19-06-2020",
year = "2022",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-93780-5\_6",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030937799",
series = "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "63--75",
editor = "Alexiei Dingli and Alexander Pfeiffer and Alesha Serada and Mark Bugeja and Stephen Bezzina",
booktitle = "Disruptive Technologies in Media, Arts and Design - A Collection of Innovative Research Case-Studies that Explore the Use of Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain within the Media, Arts and Design Sector",
address = "Germany",
}