As an early user of the virtual world Second LifeI had amassed a few thousand Linden dollarswhich is the currency used for transactions within the game. To move my money, I created an account at VirWoXa virtual currency exchange originally created to exchange Linden dollars for real-word, government-issued money. You can trade US dollars, euros, pounds, and Swiss francs into and out of Linden dollars, Avination used in a virtual world of the same nameand Open Metaverse Currency used in several virtual worlds. You can also now exchange between Linden dollars and bitcoin. Having transferred the funds into my VirWoX account, I needed to convert them into bitcoins, which means dealing with exchange rates. Even though I work in an office filled with financial journalists, not everything sinks in, and I managed to commit a rookie mistake of buying in with can you make good money mining on second life market price of bitcoins at an all-time high. I executed a trade at an exchange rate of abou...