Residents of Second Life can exchange linden dollars for real money, at the website’s exchange rate.
A world where you can teleport in any place you like, can get any identity one can even have virtual sex could not be a complete world without money.
Linden dollars, Second Life’s currency , are the object of hundreds of daily transactions.
More than $1.5 billion real currency are spent by inhabitants of Second Life to maintain virtual business, to buy real estates cars or just have fun .
Hundreds of companies chose to open branches in Second Life IBM, Toyota, Nike and others. Still if real money wasn’t involved, Second Life wouldn’t be such a good business. The beat deals are real estate business.