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No, not THAT stupid evil bastard, I mean THIS stupid evil bastard, a very interesting fellow named Les, who actually does not seem the least bit stupid or evil.
Aaaaaanyway, the other day Les (or SEB as he is sometimes known) had a post about a C&D letter he got from Visa to take down a picture he had p'shopped of a "World Of Warcraft"-branded credit card. Seems that Les had figured that it would be a perfect branding opportunity for Visa to offer a credit card with a "rewards" program that paid you back not in dollars but in in-game currency. There's a lot of interest (no pun intended) about the viability of in-game currency having a valid exchange rate with real-world currency.
Les was just a little bit ahead of the Visa folks themselves, it seems, because a couple of days later BoingBoing pointed out that, sure enough, Visa was rolling out just such a card. Given the buzz these days about Second Life and its very robust economy, where in-game currency is already convertible, I give it less than three months before an SL branded card is available.
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