@bargainbin:

How is this different from Bitcoin?


In a number of ways I would imagine. First off, a game requires you to basically work, or if you prefer play, you have things to do that take up time. There is nothing for you to do or maintain after you've acquired your Bitcoins, you can leave it in your wallet or spend it when you please. Then there is the fact that Second Life is primarily a game and Linden Dollar was designed to be used within its virtual world and not in the real world like Bitcoin. No game can ever be universally appealing simply because a game is based on what a small group of people (devs etc) think is cool/nice. Bitcoin on the other hand is 'neutral'. It isn't an end in itself, instead you use it to acquire stuff that's nice to you as opposed to a game that is nice to its creators but not necessarily to you.


That's certainly up for debate. If Bitcoin is money, so is BBQ coin, and SexCoin, and hundreds (thousands?) of other "moneys."


Of course. I'm a simple guy, I use the term 'money' to refer to anything that was designed to be used in a similar manner to paper money. I really can't be bothered with convoluted definitions and nit picking.
I can use regular paper money to buy stuff, I can use Bitcoin to buy stuff. They both have the exact same purpose, they're both money. Done.
BBQ, Sexcoin etc? Money. Perhaps not as successful but money nonetheless.



You mean, how can BBQ coin stagnate? Clarify plz.


That coins or anything else try to be money by design doesn't automatically mean that they will succeed. Money has been around since before computers were invented and as a matter of fact there would be no computers without money. Money works. Regardless of what people think. If money didn't work, nothing else would be working. It's next to impossible to get people to change/shift, especially when there is nothing wrong with their current ways. Bitcoin caught the attention of people simply because it was the first of its kind. Now that there are hundreds of coins, it's no longer a new thing.
BBQ coin tried to be money and failed.