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Etymology

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cyber- +‎ dollar

Noun

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cyberdollar (plural cyberdollars)

  1. cybercurrency worth one dollar
    • 1996, Olivier Hance, Business & Law on the Internet, page 170:
      Over five thousand volunteers received a digital account with an initial capital of one hundred cyberdollars, or virtual money. With this capital, they could purchase goods and services, via the network []
    • 2014, Michael T. Goodrich, Roberto Tamassia, Michael H. Goldwasser, Data Structures and Algorithms in Java, page 266:
      To perform an amortized analysis, we use an accounting technique where we view the computer as a coin-operated appliance that requires the payment of one cyberdollar for a constant amount of computing time.