Bitcoin is not backed or regulated by any Government so technically it is not real money. The fact people choose to accept it in exchange for goods or services does not make it a legal currency.
The issues associated with currency exhanges that allow you to exhange currency A => bitcoin => currency B anonymously is causing concern at various levels of government. The source code for bitcoin is freely available so creating simcoin or virtcoin or even playcoin etc is trivial although it would not be accepted in the bitcoin network. This would meet the play money requirement and would be valuable if government backed country or virtual world specific versions of bitcoin evolve (maybe a setting in opensim for coin type) ----- Original Message ----- From: opensim-users-request Sent: 11/04/2011 12:00 PM CET To: [email protected] Subject: Opensim-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 5 Send Opensim-users mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Opensim-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Opensim-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3 (Slavin, Simon) 2. UK or Ireland educator using virtual worlds? (Virtual World Watch) 3. Re: Opensim-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3 (Cider Jack) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 11:28:44 +0000 From: "Slavin, Simon" <[email protected]> To: "<[email protected]>" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Opensim-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3 Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On 3 Nov 2011, at 2:35am, Edmund Edgar wrote: > It would be great if someone would build Bitcoin into the client so we > could use it as a decentralized hypergrid currency, but it wouldn't > help the OP - they want play money. Bitcoin is real money (*) - you > can trade it for dollars, RAM, illegal drugs or alpaca socks. And in some countries you'd have to register as a bank and/or with the Data Protection Register (because you're keeping financial details about your users). Much simpler to go with fake money. Simon. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 16:55:03 +0000 From: Virtual World Watch <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Opensim-users] UK or Ireland educator using virtual worlds? Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed"; DelSp="yes" Hi there, Information collection for the tenth VWW snapshot, looking into who is doing what with virtual worlds in UK and Ireland academia, is underway. Feel free to contribute; the seven questions are at: http://virtualworldwatch.net/snapshot-10-autumn-2011/ Some of the submissions by academics, detailing what they are doing (or not doing) with virtual worlds and how it's working out, are being blogged daily: http://virtualworldwatch.net/ Regards and thanks, The Virtual World Watch team -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/opensim-users/attachments/20111103/40d82084/attachment-0001.html> ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2011 11:55:51 +1300 From: Cider Jack <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Opensim-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 3 Message-ID: <CAJjoDCwGR0rSsYk=9gqvv72wpv8mttdlx9wvtay8nyznfdw...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Bitcoin (or a similar system) would be ideal for OpenSim, IMO. The need for a "universal" virtual currency for use among virtual worlds is real. Bitcoin is a system already in place, with the advantages Edgar mentioned and some caveats such as Simon mentions as well. It's also already had a few other issues, including hoarding, rumors of theft & counterfeiting, not to mention the recent collapse in exchange value. I personally expect that a single currency that works seamlessly in both virtual & real world will happen eventually. It's just a question of when & how. OpenSim appears to be an ideal community to introduce a system and work out the bugs before taking it to the next step (into the real-world side of things). Decentralization is mandatory, as is security of course. Not easy barriers to overcome! Not to mention, the big banks (the 1%) that control the current real-world economy will do all they can to outlaw it, or discredit & destroy it as soon as it becomes in any way viable. Anyway, the idea fills me with both dread and excitement. These are very interesting times we are living in! Cheers, ~!CJ On 11/4/11, Slavin, Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 3 Nov 2011, at 2:35am, Edmund Edgar wrote: > >> It would be great if someone would build Bitcoin into the client so we >> could use it as a decentralized hypergrid currency, but it wouldn't >> help the OP - they want play money. Bitcoin is real money (*) - you >> can trade it for dollars, RAM, illegal drugs or alpaca socks. > > And in some countries you'd have to register as a bank and/or with the Data > Protection Register (because you're keeping financial details about your > users). Much simpler to go with fake money. > > Simon. > _______________________________________________ > Opensim-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users > ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users End of Opensim-users Digest, Vol 51, Issue 5 ******************************************** _______________________________________________ Opensim-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/opensim-users
