{"id":1800,"date":"2008-01-18T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T21:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1800"},"modified":"2008-01-18T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T21:43:54","slug":"second-life-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/18\/second-life-banks\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Life Banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Life, the virtual community, <a href=\"https:\/\/community.secondlife.com\/t5\/Blogs\/ct-p\/Blogs\">bans<\/a> banks which aren&#8217;t banks in the real world.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since the collapse of Ginko Financial in August 2007, Linden Lab has received complaints about several in-world &#8220;banks&#8221; defaulting on their promises. These banks often promise unusually high rates of L$ return, reaching 20, 40, or even 60 percent annualized.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Second Life imitating the first?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Life, the virtual community, bans banks which aren&#8217;t banks in the real world. Since the collapse of Ginko Financial in August 2007, Linden Lab has received complaints about several in-world &#8220;banks&#8221; defaulting on their promises. These banks often promise unusually high rates of L$ return, reaching 20, 40, or even 60 percent annualized. Second &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2008\/01\/18\/second-life-banks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Second Life Banks&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}