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Competing currency -- possible?
Lordfly Digeridoo
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11-11-2004 11:05
Just wondering... with all this talk of the linden dollar tanking, Im' wondering... would it be possible to set up another currency, in-world? Minted by fellow players?

ATITD does it.. but then they don't have an official currency.

Good thought experiment, eh :) discuss.

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Hank Ramos
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11-11-2004 11:29
Call it DwellBucks? :D

/me ducks and covers.
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Donovan Galatea
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11-11-2004 11:38
Competing currencies? Good recipe for confusion and wastage -- at least it was in the real world until currency was largely standardized, beginning in the nineteenth century.

Now, standardized inworld credit -- there's a necessary innovation.
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Ferran Brodsky
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11-11-2004 11:57
Im not sure... this Idea has merit...........
Trimda Hedges
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11-11-2004 12:30
Lets call it the Linden Rubel.
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Wiggle Biggles
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11-11-2004 12:34
ya, make it copyable so we can all be rich too.
Goshua Lament
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11-11-2004 13:32
Here is my idea for currency
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Torley Linden
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11-11-2004 13:45
Aye, I've got an idea... how about we rez big stone discs and push them around, and use THOSE as currency? :)
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Ace Cassidy
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11-11-2004 14:00
Read my article on Value, Money, and Markets and you'll see where I point out that the only reason the L$ has value in the minds of SL residents is because we trust the Lindens to manage and control the distribution of those bits stored somewhere on a hard drive in LL's datacenter.

Unless you can find someone who can garner the trust of as wide a swath of the SL community, there ain't gonna be no competing currencies.

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Wiggle Biggles
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11-11-2004 14:13
From: Torley Torgeson
Aye, I've got an idea... how about we rez big stone discs and push them around, and use THOSE as currency? :)



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Shack Dougall
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11-11-2004 15:30
From: Ferran Brodsky
Im not sure... this Idea has merit...........


LOL, that's the best laugh i've had in a long time. :D
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James Miller
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11-11-2004 18:35
Well, *I* like this idea. I think if enough retailers accept the currency, it'd work.
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Siggy Romulus
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11-11-2004 19:01
From: Ferran Brodsky
Im not sure... this Idea has merit...........


So as to avoid confusion with the US 'buck' and the Linden 'Linden Buck', I suggest we call yours the 'F-uck'

How much is that that sex ball? That will be 50 F-ucks thank you..

Who gives a F-uck? You do :P

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Devlin Gallant
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11-11-2004 21:35
Call it the Cherub.
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