Meanings
plural cybercurrencies
- countabledatedrareuncountableSynonym of digital currency.
The emergence of cybercurrency as a future medium of exchange raises a number of new enforcement issues as well as questions of whether reporting requirements would need to be redesigned […]
2000, Delbert Rounds, International Criminal Justice: Issues in a Global Perspective, page 361 more example
Remember electronic cash, digital dollars or cybercurrency? The conventional wisdom three years ago was that consumers would never use their credit card numbers on the Internet. So in order for electronic commerce to thrive, highly secure digital money schemes were needed.
1999, Network World, volume 16, number 15, page 47Synonyms: digital currency
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of digital currency.
Origin
- Ancient Greekκυβερνάω (kubernáō)
- Ancient Greekκυβερνητικός (kubernētikós)
- Englishcyberneticclip.
- Englishcyber-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱers-
- Proto-Indo-European*ḱr̥séti
- Proto-Italic*korsō
- Latincurrō
- Latincurrēns
- Medieval Latincurrentia
- Englishcurrency
- Englishcybercurrency
Cite this entry
cybercurrency. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercurrency
“cybercurrency.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cybercurrency. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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