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Why Virtual Currency Is Here to Stay – Bitcoin or No Bitcoin
23 November 2013 | By David Zeiler | moneymorning.com/
You’d better start getting used to the idea of virtual currency.
While the much talked about Bitcoin is the most prominent and widely used virtual currency, it is not the only one.
Bitcoin is not even the first, as the earliest digital currencies emerged as far back as the early 1990s (most of them are long gone).
Today there are more than 80 kinds of virtual currency, with an array of odd names like feathercoin, bbqcoin, fireflycoin, and zeuscoin.
They’re called virtual currency because they don’t exist in the physical world as coins or paper bills. They only exist in cyberspace.
But the fact that there are so many types of virtual currency shows that this is a concept that is not going away.
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