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by afiori 2465 days ago
>> In Pokemon Go there are coins and they are nothing but points to spend in store.

>That's literally definition of money - abstract points that you can spend in the store.

Better move all my savings to pokécoins then, I am sure they can then be used for money replacement.

Jokes aside there are innumerable difference between real money and an in-game credit both from practical and legal viewpoint.

> That'd be a big surprise for me when I'll try to book my next flight with miles. I certainly thought they'd replace money.

Again credit with a company of a consortium is incomparable to money with a legal standing.

What libra tries to do here is to create a new worldwide concurrency that can in principle subsume most national currencies in the world (maybe except the dollar for technical reasons).