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Bank heist at Eve Online

” ‘Virtual’ money isn’t really virtual,” p2pnet posted in Tuesday, going on, “A lot of people make a lot of real cash out of it. “And that’s why the news China has decided pretend money can no longer be exchanged for real goods and services is significant.” Now, “An Australian video gamer has stolen thousands of dollars from a bank inside an online game and converted them into real-world money,” says the CBC , going on: “The bank heist happened in Eve Online, where players mine in-game resources to build colonies and space ships in a futuristic space-themed online world. The game has hundreds of thousands of players who pay for access to the world.

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