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Topic: When is Second Life starting to use Bitcoin? - page 2. (Read 1395 times)

legendary
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Why would second life give up their monopoly over their currency..
This is the reason we don't see bitcoin integrated as payment method in online games. Bitcoin is ideal way to do micropayments in that environment; instantaneous, secure and without fees.
But game developers usually have their own ingame currency under total control. The best course of action would be adding ability to buy ingame currency directly for bitcoin.
I am surprised that only few game developers seek that.
legendary
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second life has its own money, linden dollar, then I dont think it need to use bitcoin there. Bitcoin was used to change fiat as payment tool in our real life, not in virtual life imo. Anyway I never play second life, why we need to live in virtual world? Roll Eyes
hero member
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legendary
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IIRC, Second Life allows for players to sell the virtual currency to each other using 3rd party means, and players can also purchase the currency from the company itself.

So, based on that, any players willing to accept Bitcoin in trade would technically count as the game "using" Bitcoin.

And since the devs claim that they don't own most of the content within the game, they can claim that there is [thing] within the game, without having to do anything themselves, if I am correct.

True! They really allow for the users to do their own business, and they were indeed an open source software which meant that users could even develop in game apps.

However, I heard they closed their source code and now only work with some specific meshes of developers. And they do demand that the users use their inworld currency - Linden Dollars. but of course that aside the game, there's nothing saying that users can't deal with other currencies if it's that what you mean...

The Question is, Has Linden ever commented about bitcoin?
legendary
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IIRC, Second Life allows for players to sell the virtual currency to each other using 3rd party means, and players can also purchase the currency from the company itself.

So, based on that, any players willing to accept Bitcoin in trade would technically count as the game "using" Bitcoin.

And since the devs claim that they don't own most of the content within the game, they can claim that there is [thing] within the game, without having to do anything themselves, if I am correct.
legendary
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Why would second life give up their monopoly over their currency..
hero member
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Hi guys!

Recently I've thought about Second Life. Second Life was one of the first sites, if not the first to introduce the concept of virtual currency.

They have their own centralized currency, the Linden Dollar.

For now I know that it is not possible to buy Lindens with bitcoin through the 2nd life site, but people have been using Wirvox exchange to do just that:

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants/bitcoins-to-lindens/td-p/2550854

So my guess is, When is Second Life Linden) starting to use Bitcoin?

Is there any mention from Linden about this?

I don't really know. It's probably, as always, an ego fight. They want their own currency. At least you can exchange it for Second Life Linden Dollar tho, too bad the fees are insane.
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1027
Hi guys!

Recently I've thought about Second Life. Second Life was one of the first sites, if not the first to introduce the concept of virtual currency.

They have their own centralized currency, the Linden Dollar.

For now I know that it is not possible to buy Lindens with bitcoin through the 2nd life site, but people have been using Wirvox exchange to do just that:

https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Merchants/bitcoins-to-lindens/td-p/2550854

So my guess is, When is Second Life Linden) starting to use Bitcoin?

Is there any mention from Linden about this?
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