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Most Successful Dogecoin

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  Digital currencies have now been slowly gaining in maturity both in terms of their functionality and the financial infrastructure that enables them to be used as a credible option to non-virtual fiat currency. Though Bitcoin,  dogecoin the first and most popular of the crypto-currencies was created in 2009 there has been forms of virtual currencies utilized in game titles for significantly more than 15 years. 1997's Ultima Online was the first notable attempt to incorporate a sizable scale virtual economy in a game. Players could collect gold coins by undertaking quests, battling monsters and finding treasure and spend these on armour, weapons or real estate. This was an earlier incarnation of a digital currency in that it existed purely within the game though it did mirror real life economics to the extent that the Ultima currency experienced inflation as a result of the game mechanics which ensured that there was an endless way to obtain monsters to kill and thus gold coi...