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n n economic commentaries A virtual currency is a Have virtual currencies affected the retail nO. 2, 2014 means of payment in the form of a digital payments market? unit of value. Virtual currencies come in Björn segendorf many different forms and are intended to the author work in the Financial stability Department of the riksbank. be used for payments made on or via the retail payments market has begun to change in recent years, due to various the Internet. They innovations and new participants. one example of this is virtual currencies. Virtual differ from national currencies come in many different forms and are often intended to be used for on-line currencies, such as the Swedish krona. The payments. there has recently been considerable media attention paid to these, and national authorities do in particular to Bitcoin. However, use of these currencies is very limited and they have not regulate the issue not made any impact on the swedish payment system. of virtual currencies and there are therefore very little statistics What are virtual currencies? available. This Economic Commentary a virtual currency is a means of payment in the form of a digital unit of value. it is explains what virtual intended for use in payments within a specific virtual community, such as a particular currencies are and website or a network of users with special software to manage the virtual currency discusses the risks and make payments. this type of virtual community can be compared with a simple connected with them. agreement to use a specific item as a means of payment. in a non-virtual world this could be bottle caps, shells, a