Digital Curency
One thing is clear to our people: only real physical items can have an actual value. You can buy things by paying for gold, sometimes trading for other items, but obviously it’s not like you can just pay with something like a piece of paper with a number written on it. That would be absolutely ridiculous. This is all fine and good in real life, but moles also tend to sell and buy a lot of stuff online. Alas, moles have never really developed technology to transfer their physical gold to the internet to make online payments easier, but, they have come up with a completely separate solution - digital currency.
Where can you get it?
Digital currency is something you buy with your gold, and then transfer it to your online wallet. This is done by buying a card at your local convenience (or inconvenience) store. You will get it in the form of a card with a predetermined value. With the help of a code found on the card, you can then transfer that value to your digital wallet. When you complete this ordeal, you have a sum of money in your digital wallet that you can use to pay for items bought on the internet.
But this is not the only way to obtain digital currency. If you are the one selling online, you will get your payment for your items in the form of this digital currency, which will get transferred to your own digital wallet. You can now use this digital currency to buy more stuff online.
How do you use it?
Well, this part is simple. With your digital wallet you will get a unique wallet code that you can use. Each time you make an online purchase, you will be asked to enter this code, and the amount of your purchase will be taken from your digital account.
You can only use digital currency for online purchases though, for irl purchases you can only use gold. I mean, how can you pay for a real item with something that’s basically just a number on your screen? Makes no sense to me.
Can you convert it back to gold?
You /can/ do this, but it’s a bit tricky. You can only have your digital currency converted back to gold at your local Glitter or Satan’s temple. Only a fairy or a Satan’s priest can deal with a highly complex procedure such as converting digital currency for gold.
If you don’t mind a bit of a longer and troublesome process, you can buy some things online with digital currency, and then sell them forward for gold.
Digital vs. Gold?
Somehow, they at this point exist completely separately and moles haven’t been able to come up with a solution to connect the two into some sort of a universal currency. Something that you could use anywhere, anytime. Like, being able to use your digital currency somehow in grocery stores, maybe even through some card based technology, and you could easily get your digital currency in physical form from some sort of a device that could be placed in various convenient locations. These ideas seem ludicrous though, and there probably isn’t a way for something like this to be done. I mean sure, digital currency is fine and convenient to trade stuff online, but at the end of the day it’s just some number written in a phone app. What if servers go down one day? What if someone hacks the app and changes everyone’s numbers to 0? What if they just change it to random numbers? Nah, this is too sketchy, at least when you have gold, you actually have real gold in your hands, no one can take that away from you. Well, they can, but no one can just alter its amount by typing a few buttons on a keyboard.
Digital currency market
Because Digital currency is a completely separate thing at this point, its value also tends to fluctuate independently from gold. This is something that can be good or bad, and you have to be extra careful about it. Some people prefer to only get as much digital currency they need and use it quickly to avoid any unfortunate surprises, but some are just the opposite. As digital currency can unexpectedly decrease in value, its value can just as easily increase. Some people spent significant amounts of time analyzing the values of digital currency, and trying to predict what might happen to it. They try to buy it at just the right time in hopes of being able to sell it for more gold later. Everyone likes to think they’ll get super rich like this, but it hasn’t happened to anyone yet. I mean come one, it’s not like you’ll wake up one day to realize that your 1$ you bought yesterday is randomly worth like 1000$ today, that would be even more insane than trying to use digital currency at your local grocery store.
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