The money is basically simply a record of your contributions to the forum since the November 2016 upgrade. They could have called it points or credits or anything really. The more you contribute to the forum, the more 'money' you accumulate. It's a carry-over from the old days when you accumulated 1 'money' for every 30 minutes spent in the chat. You could actually then use the money to buy fellow chatters gifts, anything from a virtual cup of coffee (5 'money') to a virtual tropical Island (100,000 'money'). The idea was to encourage you to stay in chat longer to 'save up'. Ls x
maybe the coin can be buried in a chest in the sand... X marks the spot. as for clout, i fear i am bludgeoned with blows, especially with the fists, enough from my fellow chatters... i do not want more ;-) oh the evil of homonyms