A new thing on the earth

[abrams1117]

I just saw a post where 900DNB (DN Bucks) can be exchanged for a domain registration.

This is a new thing in the human experience.
A brand new type of currency.

Sociologists are going to have a field day with this one!!!

Its an incredible thesis just waiting to be written.

Whodathunkit?

DNForum changes the world.

 

[hellstrom]

Originally posted by abrams1117
I just saw a post where 900DNB (DN Bucks) can be exchanged for a domain registration.

This is a new thing in the human experience.
A brand new type of currency.

A new yes, but not one of the craziest.
I know a place in Sweden where the currency is: honey.

 

[abrams1117]

You missed the point.
Honey has been sold and traded for thousands of years.
It is for sale all over the world.
Honey, maple syrup, salt, pepper,etc., can all be touched,felt,eaten.

DNB are created out of nothing like virtual particles which pop into existence.

And they have value.

Its incredible.

In a hundred years there should be entire virtual currencies and the value of each will depend on where they can be 'spent'.

This isn't frequent flyer miles, where you gather 'points'.

DNB are being exchanged for services which cost real money in the real world.

Its the merging of two entirely different worlds.

Reality and virtual reality have just merged.

Some day, some people may live entirely off of virtual money.

And a market for virtual money could exist.

If a day comes when everyone on earth is connected in a holographic virtual universe of 'online' connections virtual money may be worth more than real money is today.

The day anyone buys anything (a modem,etc) with DNB will be a huge step in human social evolution.

 

[GiantDomains]

I used 300 DNF at Starbucks for a Venti Latte . They kinda looked at me funny at first, but I added an additional 100 dnfbucks, and they gave it to me! :weird:

 

[DomainPairs]

Did you see my working cpus for DN bucks posting.

I hadn't thought of swopping honey for regs (or DN bucks).

 

[abrams1117]

RE:
Did you see my working cpus for DN bucks posting.

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No, but you may have made history.

In the future you may be the subject of classes at future Universities.

If this trend expands, along with the power/scope of the net, the beginnings of it all will be studied.

It is not inconceivable that a future society which spends the majority of its working and leisure time connected in an online holographic virtual world will value virtual money as much or more than 'real' money.

The only value of DNB is its perceived value. There is no gold standard (Nixon took the U.S. off the gold standard), or 'backed by the full power of the United States' behind DNB.
It exists on its own, backed only by itself.
No physical currency and its only backing is its perceived value at DNForum.

That it should extend into the real world is amazing.
And even if this trend ends or continues, as new vistas of the online experience and the real world experience expand, blur and blend, we have shown by these few examples, that virtual money will exist in the future.

We have not only witnessed part of the future, we have created it.

 

[DomainPairs]

I feel that DN bucks are a more reliable form of exchange than PayPal. There isn't a DNBucksSucks site for example.

 

[Ed30]

Abrams - you been on the amber nectar this lunchtime?

 

[abrams1117]

Abrams - you been on the amber nectar this lunchtime?
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lol
No.
Surely someone knows a Sociologist, let them comment on the theory.

 

[NamePopper.com]

Abrams - you crack me up.

(What scares me is that I actually understand what you are saying)

 

[DomeBase]

I have heard of folks paying substantive real money for virtual possessions in multi-player RPGs (role paying games).

 

[abrams1117]

I have heard of folks paying substantive real money for virtual possessions in multi-player RPGs (role paying games).
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A virtual currency to purchase real objects and virtual possessions purchased with real money.

The future is going to be w-e-i-r-d.

'And now financial news,the DNB rallied today posting an all time high of 13.679 against the Euro.'

 

[hellstrom]

Originally posted by abrams1117
You missed the point.
Honey has been sold and traded for thousands of years.
It is for sale all over the world.
Honey, maple syrup, salt, pepper,etc., can all be touched,felt,eaten.

DNB are created out of nothing like virtual particles which pop into existence.

And they have value.

Its incredible.

What I am trying to say is that it's even more incredible that people stick to old currencies like honey, when everything is electronical.
The fact that $DNF have value is just the next logical step. You can not touch the money you have on your e-bank either.

 

[MusicWiz]

ive started an auction for a stick of 512mb PC133 SDRAM for DN bucks

 

[hellstrom]

Originally posted by MusicWiz
ive started an auction for a stick of 512mb PC133 SDRAM for DN bucks

I bought 256mb SDRAM the day before yesterday...with real money.
Maybe I should have joined this auction instead because they billed me $80.

 

[MusicWiz]

$80 for 256mb ??

in the UK i can buy 256mb ram for £18 about $26-$30

 

[hellstrom]

Yeah i know.
But these were "double-sided" or something like that. I have a "brand-computer" and therefore I must use that sort of memory they said in the store. They cost twice as much.
But I have seen memories here too in the price range you wrote(not double-sided though).