Noone else thinks the idea of virtual stocks or virtual corporations, in addition to virtual currencies, is any interesting?
It's an interesting idea. I am new to all this bitcoin stuff, so I can't really say much about that, but I have been active in SecondLife as a content creator, academic and community builder for over 7 years. In SL we actually had to ban banking 6 years ago or so because the con artists in the SL banks caused a massive crash (google Ginko some time). After retail banking was banned we still had in world investment bankers, though, with people investing in people starting things like virtual clothing or vehicle or gadget companies. There was the WSE (World Stock Exhange) and later on SL Capex opened. Capex still has a web site, but I don't think they do much business any more. I knew one or two people who were into SL investment on exchanges for a while but it slowly declined and died out after a couple of years. In SL the big investors typically just go around and look for promising prospects in places where entrepreneurs hang out, more like VCs rather than securities investors. I know quite a few very large land barons in SL, and many of them do have investors to answer to. Most retail companies don't have investors, since it's low overhead to create most things in SL. Land and services are the only two SL industries with enough overhead to really justify needing investors.
