Virtual Money in Electronic Markets and Communities
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چکیده
Money is an information system to value, record, and track economic transactions. It is an information system with minimal semantics and centralized control. Consequently, the monetary system fails to support many transactions directly, but requires intermediaries such as banks, brokers, insurance companies, credit card companies, and investment firms, increasing transaction costs greatly. Semantics of money can be increased, and the management of money can be decentralized by creating virtual money. Management can be decentralized by issuing private currencies and creating an automated peerto-peer network of currency exchange systems to support complex transactions. Semantics can be increased by incorporating transaction information in the money, and building semantic hierarchies of money types by aggregating underlying privately issued currencies. Resulting virtual money can disintermediate many financial institutions, possibly leading to drastic reductions in transaction costs.
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