NEWS It is easy to picture money A person pulls out a five-dollar bill Somebody pays by swiping or tapping a credit card But what about virtual currency This type of money is only on the internet People cannot hold virtual currency Still more and more people are using it Online Only What’s up with that name The word virtual describes anything that is only online or on computers And the word currency means money 4
tender legal digital NEWS Money first went after the internet became popular in the 1990s Banks and stores started letting people pay for things online These payments all used such as dollars But it wasn’t long before people wanted to make a new kind of money How It All Started In the 2010s smartphones made online payments even easier People could send money to one another using apps too 6
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