Quote from: ObscureBean on April 08, 2016, 02:52:25 PM

@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.

Who buys BTC and "just leaves it in [their] wallet or spend[s ] it" tho? No one on this forum, that's for sure. Bitcoin is just as much of a MMORPG as Second Life.
People pump Bitcoin, trade it, create "Bitcoin Foundations" and "Bitcoin 'Businesses,'" which they go on to IPO in /bitcoin securities/ section, etc., etc.
people (like Lauda) even ~~spam the shit out of this forum~~ "earn" BTC with signature ads (does Second Life have something like "grinding"?).

Buying BTC to spend on [legal] goods and cervices is mostly a myth, why would anyone (other than Rube Goldberg) do such a hilariously contrived thing?

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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.

Unless by "real world" you mean DNM, I'm a bit lost as to what you're driving at here.

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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.

So bitcoin is "universally appealing" (as opposed to "No game can ever be universally appealing")?
Would it shock you to learn that there are actual IRL people who find it as appealing as surprise buttsecs?

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>You mean, how can BBQ coin stagnate? Clarify plz.
... Now that there are hundreds of coins, it's no longer a new thing.
BBQ coin tried to be money and failed.

Well there you go, that's what can happen to Bitcoin