currency、virtual money),是在虚拟空间中特定社群內可以購買商品和服務的货币。它具有交易媒介(Medium of Exchange)和記賬單位(UnitofAccount)的貨幣功能。 根据2012年歐洲央行的定義為:「一种无法律约束,由開發者發行與管控,在特定虛擬社群成員中接受和使用的數位貨幣。」
Fox, Robert Eyewitness Falklands: A personal accountof the Falklands campaign, 1982, p309. The Toponymy of the Falkland Islands as recorded on Maps and
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