Virtual Currencies are increasingly becoming a part of not only the virtual world but also the real world. There are many problems associated with virtual currencies. Due to its similar to paper currency, a lot of questions have risen regarding its acceptance among the people in the market. Virtual currencies are growing in popularity and although they were large used by speculators who were looking at it as a way to make money by buying them at a lower prices and selling them at higher prices (much like trading foreign exchange).
According to Zakary M. Seward (2013), “Virtual currencies have been viewed as a form electronic money or area of payment system technology that has been evolving over the last past 20 years” (Seward, 2013). Virtual currency such as Bitcoin are not issues by central bank; instead they are created or mined by a group of anonymous programmers under the name Satoshi Nakamoto (Barry, 2014). Bitcoin can be sent and received through the internet, similar to sending cash digitally. The currency is exchange through the decentralized Bitcoin network, without going through an external financial institution or government. Virtual currency is a big problem. People from all over the word can exchange virtual currencies for traditional currencies through the online services. Many clients exchange goods and services by using virtual currency such Bitcoin. If people buy bitcoins, they don’t physically purchase goods by handing notes or tokens to the seller. They are used for electronic purchases and transfers. A lot of big companies use the form of virtual currency. For example, Apple provides iTunes users the option of buying prepaid iTunes gift cards that contains credits that can be redeemed for music and movies. You...
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...en Perklberg (2013), The Fed doesn’t have the authority to supervise virtual currencies but that they may hold long-term promise, particularly if the innovations promote a faster, more secure and more efficient payment system (Perklberg, 2013). The Chinese government restricted Chinese bank from making transactions using bitcoins. Also the reserve bank of India has cautioned the users, holders, and traders of bitcoins about the potential financial, legal, customer protection and security related risk that they are exposing themselves to.
All in all, virtual currency is a new concept but it is in process of being understood and adopted by a growing number of consumers merchant, and investors around the world. Virtual currency poses some technological and financial risks. More consumers, merchants, and investors should start learning about and using virtual currency.
The adjective "virtual," practically unheard-of a few years ago, has without a doubt become the number one buzzword of the nineteen-nineties. Virtual reality has become a catch phrase for the interactive multimedia technologies that have supplanted desktop publishing at the cutting edge of personal-computer graphics technology. The virtual communities which for years have flourished in comfortable obscurity on the Internet, have recently been thrust into the glare of publicity as commercial gateways have opened up the net to the public, while virtual corporations have transformed the world of business.
The coins made in gold, silver and bronze were traded during Roman Empire and the shortage of coins created a barrier for money circulation. However with the establishment of paper money, a sophisticated banking, global clearing system and electronic money, the global financial system evolved with a worldwide framework of legal agreements. In the Global Financial market, foreign currencies issued by the world, countries are traded by the buyers and sellers using currency exchange rates. Now a day, it is very common practices of companies in one country to raise capital in a foreign country by listing their stocks on major foreign exchanges given the growth of equity markets are becoming more globalized (SNHU, 2015).
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Supports of virtual reality say that it will bring people around the world closer together and change the nature of communication. While others believe it will be used by people to avoid real-life troubles and they will withdraw into the online world. (Anon., n.d.)
instantly with negligible costs for transactions. Cryptocurrencies are becoming widespread as a paper and electronic currency which poses an opportunity to investors who started early. Most of the commonly known problems with cryptocurrencies are the issues of deflation and also wasteful mining that leads inflation. The advantage is that, these problems are not such pervasive especially when the issue of the cryptocurrency economy as a general operation is considered. They only drive their own value by having the reputation of an effective transaction mechanism. This happens in cases that they seem to be overvalued while other cryptocurrencies getting an opportunity to arise. When they arise, they will thus increase the number of cryptocurrencies which will thence cause inflation while posing a limit to wasteful mining.
"Regulation of money supply needs to be depoliticized... especially as it applies to virtual currencies" - Al Gore
Michael Rodriguez James Maughn English 1A 20 May 2015 bitcoin fantasy. The Nation. The World. The World. ARE DIGITAL CURRENCIES THE FUTURE OF MONEY?
Over the last ten years people in the United State and around the world have heavily relied more on their debit or credit cards to process transactions of their purchases. In the old days it used to be when you would get your paycheck on Friday and rush to the bank during your break or lunch in order to cash withdraw your funds or deposit them into your account. It used to be where you carry cash to buy groceries, pay bills, and go shopping. Now some people don’t even set foot inside their bank branch because they are paid using direct deposit or the funds are loaded into a debit card provided by their employer. Many employers from around the globe don’t even issue paper check anymore. Bills are often times paid online, babysitters are accepting electronic payment such as PayPal and even food trucks now take electronic payments. According to a Washington Post column by Michelle Singletary society and businesses embrace using cashless ways to pay for things than the old time traditional “cold hard cash”. In my opinion there should still be cash circulating out in the world. My first ...
The invention of money was a major improvement in peoples’ lives. In the past, people usually had to travel all day to find the person who is willing to exchange their goods. In addition, the goods people want to exchange did not have the standard value of measurement. This led to unequal exchanges. Furthermore, it is not convenient to carry heavy goods from one place to another for an exchange. To solve these issues, money will be the only solution. Later, people tend to develop money from cowry shells to credit cards for the convenience and to improve their society.
The invention of money is perhaps one of the greatest achievements of human civilization. From the very beginning of society, people have used money to circumvent the difficulties of bartering and to foster trade and commerce. Since then, money has come a long way. No longer do we need to rely on silver coins, cocoa beans, or even anything of intrinsic value to conduct our business; today, we use paper currency, which is convenient and easy to carry around. But slowly, we are moving into the digital age of money, an age in which less of our money is actually tangible and more of it is just data on a computer server. To some, this prospect may seem daunting. However, given the major advantages of electronic money over outmoded paper counterpart, society as a whole should embrace the upcoming era of digital money.
It is ironical that currency, which was first made by man many thousands of years ago, could get replaced by something which was invented just 3-4 years back and that to an online currency.
...ng an acceptable form of transaction.Governments need to be more transparent to the public.A lot of ‘under table’ transaction take place in the most basic everyday services(passport,license, tax).Such services has the capability to go online reducing the red tape as money is only used via online transaction.
The use of credit and debit cards today are taking a tour in the sense that electronic cash is becoming more admissible as the world makes a switch towar...
No economic systems can regulate the production or value of the currency, the system that crypto-currencies are based upon was created by Satoshi Nakamoto - purposely creating Bitcoin which the practise of fractional reserve banking would be virtually impossible. Bitcoin is currently the most successful crypto-currency to date - created in 2009, this anonymous decentralized digital currency has been the target of several raids and hacking sprees; the media are contemplating the significance of Bitcoin in our current worlds economy. Whether it has potential of overruling fiat-currencies or if it’s just a puerile project created by the aberrant Satoshi Nakamoto. Global Perspective Since its creation in the ‘60s, the Internet has paved the way for numerous phenomenons that have affected the way that we live, the way we communicate and that have affected the worlds economy.
A cashless society will further improve the globalisation that characterise our present time. The computerised systems can be used to decrease the quantity of paper trail therefore substituting paper cash with cashless credits or electronic money transfers. However, in a cashless economy, this will change with certain crimes almost eradicated. It will also be faster to generate electronic payments than cash as Near Field Communications (NFC) chips make their way into more payments cards and mobile handsets as well providing protection not applicable to purchases made using cash. This technology is simple with low power wireless link evolved from radio-frequency identification (RFID) tech that can transfer small amounts of data between two devices identifying us and our bank account to a computer. Another benefit of drawing nearer to a cashless society is that other companies are providing pioneering cash-free solutions to the payment related problems we come across. For example, WisePay, a provider of e-payments services, is deploying technologies that ensure parents no longer have to worry about sending their children to school with cash to pay for meals, excursions and other fees that will eliminate the likelihood of being caught short for cash or children misplacing money. The Government also has valuable explanations why they may deem to turn away from cash. Due the main factor of printing and distributing cash, not to mention ensuring the economy is free from forgeries which are all costly endeavours estimating that the cost to society of using cash is between 0.5 and 1.5% of GDP annually. In addition, there are many technological innovations that propose there is a real enthusiasm for an alternative to cash with the upsurge...