On the Dual Nature of Network Virtual Money:The Essential Attribute of Commodity and the Derivative Attribute of Class Currency

Le Li · Journal of Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · 2008

The network virtual money is a kind of implement of payment for the virtual commodity on Internet.It was produced for the difficulty to small electronic payment in the network,and the essential attribute of network virtual money is commodity.But with the expansion in its use and extending in its function,the attribute of cur rency for the network virtual money gradually derived from the virtual world.At present,the network virtual money is only a kind of commodity,which is quite different from the real currency and the quasi-currency.

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