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Matt Mihaly / Matthew Mihaly (born June 21, 1972) is an American CEO/founder of Iron Realms Entertainment, an investor, executive, and bitcoin enthusiast. He was formerly CEO/founder of Sparkplay Media and COO of ZipZap Inc. He is known for pioneering the sale of virtual assets and virtual currency in online games, dating to the late 1990s. His MUD pseudonym is Sarapis. ==Biography== Mihaly attended Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, receiving a Bachelor's degree in political science in 1994. During college, Matt became involved with MUDs, especially ''BatMUD'', where he was a wizard. In 1996, Mihaly founded Iron Realms Entertainment and served as lead designer and producer on ''Achaea''. In 1997, he pioneered the Virtual Asset Sales (VAS) model, holding auctions for virtual weapons and armor in ''Achaea''. In 1999, he built the first hard to soft currency exchange in an online game, allowing players to exchange earned in-game gold for purchased credits. In 2000, he served as Senior Consultant to the Secretary-General of the United Nations-sponsored World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs, in New York, New York, leading development of a system with very low technology requirements to permit entrepreneurs in impoverished 3rd-world countries to participate.〔("Wired Article on World Summit of Young Entrepreneurs" )〕 He has since overseen the release of four additional successful MUDs. He speaks at conferences like Dragoncon,〔("Dragoncon session" )〕 the Game Developers Conference〔()〕 and the Social Gaming Summit.〔("Social Gaming Summit" )〕 He served as technical editor on Richard Bartle's book, ''Designing Virtual Worlds'', and contributed an essay to Lee Sheldon's book, "Character Development and Storytelling for Games"〔("Character Development and Storytelling for Games )〕 In 2007, Iron Realms announced it was spinning off (Sparkplay Media ) from Iron Realms to produce ''Earth Eternal'', a 3D anthropomorphic MMO, under his leadership. In 2008, he raised $4.25 million from venture capital firms Redpoint Ventures and (Prism Ventureworks ) in order to expand the development of Sparkplay's platform and games, and raised another $3 million subsequently. In 2010, after never leaving Open Beta, Sparkplay Media ran out of money and sold Earth Eternal to a subsidiary of Time Warner in a joint venture in Asia. In the early morning hours of September 1, 2010, the Earth Eternal forums and game were taken offline. A Japanese version of the game, published by Sankando, who had licensed Earth Eternal from Sparkplay, was launched with some changes in 2011. In 2013, he published a response to former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan entitled, "Bitcoin and Intrinsic Value". In 2014, Matt was Chief Operating Officer (COO) of bitcoin-related company ZipZap Inc.〔(【引用サイトリンク】first=Nellie )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matt Mihaly」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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