International experts and representatives of Commonwealth governments will meet to explore issues around the rapid development of virtual currencies, and to identify potential benefits they could offer to developing countries.
Virtual currencies are digital representations of value that can be traded and exchanged between online communities. At present, there are no internationally agreed standards or rules that apply to these currencies.
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