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Charlene Trudeau
SkyBeam Architect
Join date: 23 Aug 2005
Posts: 318
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06-28-2006 22:57
Signed!
Char
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Jopsy Pendragon
Perpetual Outsider
Join date: 15 Jan 2004
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06-29-2006 08:49
From: Eloise Pasteur Evidence for either of these initial assertions please? (somewhat off topic... but I'll take a try at answering) This topic is 3 months stale.... Since then LL has announced that they might start minting L$ for sale directly via the LindeX, which would strengthen Merlyn's point. The way I see it though: Buying sims is not a L$ sink, (though some folks think it should be.) Buying "new land" with doesn't create a demand for L$ because the USDs go straight into LL's pockets. The desire to buy pre-owned land does create a demand for L$'s, but the surplus of new land keeps land prices from strengthening. (Land is consistantly one of the most expensive and valuable things within SecondLife and land/L$ transactions make up a non-trivial percentage of each day's lindex volumes) If land were more scarce and/or more expensive however... fewer people would be buying land, resulting in, reducing demand for L$ to some degree. Anyway. Just some 'civil' pre-coffee off-topic rambling.  |