'World of Warcraft' Game Currency Now Worth More Than Venezuelan Money (theblaze.com)

schwit1 quotes TheBlaze: Digital gold from Blizzard's massive multiplayer online game "World of Warcraft" is worth more than actual Venezuelan currency, the bolivar, according to new data. Venezuelan resident and Twitter user @KalebPrime first made the discovery July 14 and tweeted at the time that on the Venezuela's black market -- now the most-used method of currency exchange within Venezuela according to NPR -- you can get $1 for 8493.97 bolivars. Meanwhile, a "WoW" token, which can be bought for $20 from the in-game auction house, is worth 8385 gold per dollar. According to sites that track the value of both currencies, KalebPrime's math is outdated, and WoW gold is now worth even more than the bolivar.
That tweet has since gone viral, prompting @KalebPrime to joke that "At this rate when I publish my novel the quotes will read 'FROM THE GUY THAT MADE THE WOW GOLD > VENEZUELAN BOLIVAR TWEET.'"

Comments

Re:And then?

[dabadab]

Unless you can then resell the token for real world currency

Fair point: I do not think there are many people who would exchange real money for Bolivars.

Re:western bankers

[bill_mcgonigle]

Are you saying the CIA convinced Venezuela to ditch capitalism and embrace socialism as a means to destabilize itself?