[Opensim-users] money

[Bojan Dedic]

Im talking about fake money, money in game, i don't want to players pay me
for Game money,
there must be some command in opensim console for that , or maybe i need to
change something in mysql database

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 6:12 PM, lamont cranston <l.cranston at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> Play money or real money?
> I would suggest that there is no distinction to be made; any multigrid
> currency needs to have general acceptance, and, as a result will become a
> real currency, since someone will create a money exchange. An example of
> this in an MMORPG are the gold farmers of WoW.
>
> Since there is a real world exchange rate between USD and WoW Gold, there
> is a calculable tax liability for purchases. (I am not aware of anyone
> actually paying income tax on their WoW gold, but the legal point is pretty
> clear.)
> My point is just that *any* multiworld payment system, and potentially any
> single world payment system will have the tax liability issue.
>
> This mean that all transactions are "merely" micropayment transactions, and
> there have been attempts at that before.
> The choices appear to be which central bank to use or using a distributed
> system.
>
> An off grid central bank has to validate transactions on their currency
> schemes and the sim operator has to be vetted;
> "VirWoX has to confirm that the grid is run by a reputable operator and is
> safe."
> Another problem is that the central bank wants to get paid
> https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_display-fees-outside
>
> A different scheme that has a certain attraction is bitcoin,
> http://www.bitcoin.org/
> It has no central bank, or transaction fees. The users deal directly with
> each other.It seems to be a good fit.
>
> I'm interested in hearing people who disagree with the idea...
> What shortcomings do you see with bitcoin?
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 10:41 PM, paul emery <pablo at lansing.com> wrote:
>
>> Check out these links.
>> http://opensimulator.org/wiki/Money
>>
>> http://www.hypergridbusiness.com/2010/03/in-world-payments-come-to-opensim-grids/
>>
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