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  • A digital currency can be used for purchasing virtual items in video games, removing the middle man such as paypal and credit card companies.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Greg Ashcroft

  • A digital currency can be used for temp migrant workers (non CA citizen) to transfer money back home in different countries.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Sirilak Carter

  • A digital currency can be used for real and LIVE classroom for "Cyber Financial Literacy".

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Sirilak Carter

  • A digital currency can be used for a spam free premium email service. Emails would cost a fraction of a penny, be encrypted, and would have confirmation of receipt.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Mark Laprairie

  • A digital currency can be used for eliminating rounding to the nearest penny and enabling transactions that are less than one cent ("The Superman 3 Effect").

    Submitted about 14 years ago by Steve Dryall

  • A digital currency can be used for micro-payments for digital goods. We could easily pay citizen journalists and musicians for the work they post online.

    Submitted about 14 years ago by Kyle Geske

  • A digital currency can be used for quick pay transactions like bus fares, taxis, parking meters, convenience stores and pay-at-the-pump gas stations.

    Submitted about 14 years ago by Gerald Cloud

  • A digital currency can be used for allowing groups to easily split purchases. For example, you could order pizza, then use an app to have everyone pay equally.

    Submitted about 14 years ago by Jody Gillis

  • A digital currency can be used for P2P barter and micropayments

    Submitted about 14 years ago by Bryan Copeland

  • A digital currency can be used for anonymous donations.

    Submitted about 14 years ago by Dylan Tyre

  • A digital currency can be used for meeting any of our everyday transactions as it is far more convenient, and safer to deal with.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Guy Joseph

  • A digital currency can be used for meeting any of our everyday transactions as it is far more convenient, and safer to deal with.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Guy Joseph

  • A digital currency can be used for cashless secure like a chip and pin system where every thing is instant

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by mary jones

  • A digital currency can be used for fast,convienient,anomymous trasactions

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by sinead raftery

  • A digital currency can be used for donations that are anonymously given towards cars passing through the tolls, random act of kindness.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by gsmith@mecu.com smith

  • A digital currency can be used for paying the parking meter so that you don't run the risk of not having enough loose change and risk getting a parking ticket.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by gsmith@mecu.com smith

  • A digital currency can be used for selling and purchasing exports and imports, as the value of the dollar is worth more or less than the currency

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Nina Teo

  • A digital currency can be used for transacting ONLY using app with secure means (Password/VoiceCommand/iris/FingerPrint) unlike a cash. A lost phone is not a sleepless night!

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by sivakumar ramanathan

  • A digital currency can be used for making money. I wish businesses to innovate on this front, give back to their cusotomers and cut short expenses on promotion/analytics.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by sivakumar ramanathan

  • A digital currency can be used for all illegal transactions as it is just like a cash. Let us hope that some mechanism will be devised to overcome this deficiancy!

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by sivakumar ramanathan

  • A digital currency can be used for Buying a mint chip milkshake at DQ.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Gerry Smith

  • A digital currency can be used for eco-friendly currency. We can reduce coin manufacturing and cotton bill manufacturing.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Ivana Lung

  • A digital currency can be used for ALL PURCHASES AND PROVIDE AN IMMEDIATE BALANCE ON ACCOUNTS.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Gloria Salazar-Jimenez

  • A digital currency can be used for to buy energy drinks to energize the workers of an economy to boost the economy!

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Alec Flores

  • A digital currency can be used for buying and selling virtual items to other players in games like World of Warcraft and Diablo 3.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by David Reynolds

  • A digital currency can be used for quick payments at the movies

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Richard Falck

  • A digital currency can be used for purchasing goods at concession stands, garages sales, or private sales using a form of cellphone scan or usb wallet

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by david fournier

  • A digital currency can be used for an alternative online payment option: the benefit being that the money would be instantly available

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by deleted deleted

  • A digital currency can be used for reducing the coinage of physical currency and the associated costs to both the government and the environment.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Mary Crosson

  • A digital currency can be used for giving CHINESE LUCKY MONEY, small gifts of $$ (from the culture that invented paper $) Chinese give to one another, esp. kids, in RED ENVELO

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by William Cheung

  • A digital currency can be used for immediate visualization on balances allowing consumer greater control over expenses. Best part eliminate bank fees.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Gloria Salazar-Jimenez

  • A digital currency can be used for cures researsh such as AIDS and cancers.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Maimouna Louche

  • A digital currency can be used for paying at a parking meter.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by David Reynolds

  • A digital currency can be used for as a universal currency valid in every country and is equal to the money one has. It is the same as $, Yen, Euro, Franc C.F.A...

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Maimouna Louche

  • A digital currency can be used for transferring credits between other chips and/or the internet for purchases, as well as receive credits for services or items sold.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by Kim Head

  • A digital currency can be used for paying quickly at the concession stand.

    Submitted almost 14 years ago by David Reynolds

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