DocumentCode
1523098
Title
Virtual currency gets real
Author
Courtland, R.
Volume
49
Issue
6
fYear
2012
fDate
6/1/2012 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
52
Lastpage
53
Abstract
Virtual currency is what you use to pay for a virtual tractor for your virtual farm or for a healing elixir for your avatar. But the market for digital scrip is expanding, leading some to speculate that virtual currencies will one day grow so large that they´ll have a big effect on real-world economies. Opinions are split about whether that will be a good thing or a bad thing.
Keywords
Cryptography; Currency; Digital systems; Exchange rates; Government policies; Online banking; Privacy;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Spectrum, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0018-9235
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/MSPEC.2012.6204182
Filename
6204182
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