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Bitcoin Gaming Education with Des Dickerson (WiM290)

The "What is Money?" Show

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Is There a Transfer of Value in a Game?

There was no money in the game but there was this little tiny ring You only had like 40 spaces you could put items on and this ring only took up one of the spaces It was very divisible I guess you would say. People started pricing things in terms of that ring called the stone of Jordan ring So they'd price everything in S O J's And then people started selling those items eventually on eBay for real money He says he didn't intend to learn about economic so much as get wealthy through arbitrage. "Money is not a thing someone imposes. It just emerges"

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