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virtual currencies

virtual currencies is the plural of virtual currency.

Meaning of virtual currency

Noun

virtual currency (countable and uncountable, plural virtual currencies)

  1. (originally) 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.2009, Lynne Grewe, OpenSocial Network Programming, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 320
  2. (broadly) 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.2013 April 8, Noam Cohen, “Bubble or No, This Virtual Currency Is a Lot of Coin in Any Realm”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about virtual currencies

What is virtual currencies the plural of?
Virtual currencies is the plural of virtual currency.

Words near virtual currencies in the dictionary

  1. virtual class
  2. virtual classes
  3. virtual communities
  4. virtual community
  5. virtual consumption
  6. virtual currencies
  7. virtual currency
  8. virtual darkness
  9. virtual data room
  10. virtual data rooms
  11. virtual desktop

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