The digital world has BitCoin; it's come close, it turns out, to having SchmidtCoin.

Google, Eric Schmidt revealed in a speech today, once considered getting into the digital currency game. The company has seen \"various proposals,\" its chairman told a crowd at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, to develop a currency that would serve as tender for peer-to-peer economic exchanges taking place across Google's platforms.

The chimerical currency would have been called Google Bucks, IT World reports. (I would have preferred SchmidtCoin; I guess this is why I am not the head of Google.)

So why, ultimately, didn't Google go the way of Facebook and its Facebook Credits? The same reason it doesn't do a lot of things: legal concerns. \"Governments are typically wary of the potential for money laundering with such proposals,\" IT World notes. As Schmidt put it: \"We decided we didn't want to get into that because of these issues.\"

Image: Viajar24h/Flickr.

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The digital world has BitCoin; it's come close, it turns out, to having SchmidtCoin.

The chimerical currency would have been called Google Bucks, IT World reports. (I would have preferred SchmidtCoin; I guess this is why I am not the head of Google.)

Image: Viajar24h/Flickr.

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