... Can you provide some examples of where photon's are currently being used in these games? Also, subsequently looking at the price pretty much make all of my prepared points look pretty ridiculous as its hard to argue with this kind of price bump :/
Hopefully this doesn't ultimately end in tears for those invested and I'm just a moron for thinking this was essentially an abandoned coin.
Keepin an eye on this one.
Question was not addressed to me but I'll give an answer.
1) Photon and several other coins are an ecosystem in themselves. If you research a bit you will find the other coins and some of the ways they connect.
2) One thing that sets this group of coins apart, in my opinion and others have said this too, is that there are bare minimum standards of ethics with the coins in this network. An outside dev could make a coin that goes with this group, but if it has unacceptable shortcuts then the more savvy people would not consider it a core part of the network.
3) This particular coin, Photon, seems kind of overpriced
compared to the other coins. More accurately, this group of coins seems very cheap, but Photon is the least cheap right now. Might be a bit of sour grapes as I sold part of my stash right before the run up, but I don't know a reason why this would be the most expensive coin in the group, aside it has a better sounding name.
4) One thing that started with this group of coins earlier than other coins was people trying to be involved on their own with improving the coins or doing something on their own. I do not know, but I would guess that the Photon dev does not know Bluedragon in person, but was simply a person who decided to do something on their own without being asked.
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One of the most significant things in coins a few years ago, in my opinion, was Blaketrader, which was somebody making a sort of automated way to exchange coins in this group. That idea started before there were even a lot of exchanges like there are now, and before there was really talk about decentralized exchanges. That is the best example of somebody seeing a project that improves the ecosystem and doing it on their own.
Another point
Obviously the wallet link above is good, but generally when somebody wants to know which wallet to use a good idea is to look on the network and see 1) what is the latest wallet and 2) what is the most used wallet. In this case go to the network tab
https://chainz.cryptoid.info/pho/#!network and you see 6 different wallets with "/Photon:0.8.9.6/" the most used and latest.