virtual currency
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virtual currency
noun virtual currencies
- A type of unregulated digital currency that is restricted to a specific community or purpose, such as in-game purchases. Virtual currency is the offering of virtual monies that can be spent to buy services (or virtual goods) inside of an application. This is a new trend that has been used primarily in game-like social network applications.
- Any digital currency. When he was a Yale Law School student, Reuben Grinberg wrote one of the first academic papers about Bitcoin, a novel virtual currency that uses sophisticated cryptography to validate and secure transactions that exist only online.
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noun type of digital currency
| 中文 | 虛擬貨幣 /虚拟货币 xūnǐ huòbì |
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title = {virtual currency},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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