“We are temporarily halting Linden Dollar (L$) purchases
for maintenance and review purposes.
Please monitor this post for updates and further information.”

Much speculation about what caused the recent ’snap’ in a pretty consistent lindeX L$ to USD rate: a expanded discussion on the Second Life Forums and Ciaran Laval’s blogpost on your2ndplace. More buy than sell orders for Linden Dollars are confusing all of us. Like, err… L$ is a sound investment?

But what if it’s really true, that Linden Lab can not supply enough L$ at the moment to keep the lindeX stable, because of .. let’s call it “an unexpected error that caused an insufficiency in funds”?

Grand Theft Avatar by Second Front

In Second Life, Lynden Labs owns huge amounts of land, makes their own laws and mints their own currency. They are, in effect, a nation-state. On April 14th, 2008, Second Front raided the Lynden Treasury. We plotted, we attacked and we freed the Lynden Dollars. Presented as a live performance at a panel discussion hosted at the San Francisco Art Institute, we impersonated the panelists to disguise our true identities in this historic raid. is what can be read at Second Front’s blog. So many questions arise: might there be a slight change “Lynden” is a codeword? But for what or whom? And what did Second Front do with the loot? And is this in any way related to the current conversion rates for the Linden Dollar?

PS. Should I make ‘making vintfalken.com wider’ a priority and screw up the layout of all my previous blogposts, or should allow blip.tv smaller embed sizes? I kinda still like how it is now, it fits perfectly well on an iPhone in vertical position. And “less widespread” is an easier read? :/

Tags: linden dollar, machinima, second front, second life, SLeconomy

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