"Skyrim dollars" was a concept that my friend group roundly pooh-poohed when I brought it up in a late night rant some time around 2012. Over time it has become

"Skyrim dollars" was a concept that my friend group roundly pooh-poohed when I brought it up in a late night rant some time around 2012. Over time it has become something of a meme, but this winter break we were all sitting around and realized that Skyrim dollars have become hot new tech. The primary motivation for the idea was that there are tons of people out grinding in game money in single player games, and all that labor (leisure time?) is trapped in the game (yet somehow not creating disastrous inflation in-game ...). What if there was some way that players could capture that time and (leisure labor)? At the time Valve was already trying to reward people for creating value for others, but what if we could just exchange the Skyrim dollars that we had earned from our single player playthroughs? Well, here we are.