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by Melting_Harps 1886 days ago
> Could work.

I think the fact that alts/ICO failed as bad as they did proved it could never work. Working with existing infrastructure, and I don't think ETH is worth consideration at this point, is the only way to get any credibility given who is investing into crypto these days.

DOGE will always be a funny meme thing, regardless of it's price rise: it was actually where we sent people to get used to the ecosystem as 'training wheels' Elon just made it hysterical and people bought into the hype, but as you can see he won't put it on Tesla or SpaceX's balance sheet for a reason.

Though if I'm honest it would be funny as hell to see a DOGE logo on the side of a Starship.
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minasmarios 1886 days ago
That's true! I event sent my friend a couple of DOGE for his birthday. SpaceX may put it in their sheets, but for early-stage startups this could be a way to be get funded from crypto investors who got big early on.
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throwaway4good 1886 days ago
ICOs were also big in the last crypto bubble and a lot of people got burned. So maybe it is too early for a revival.

However ICOs are certainly a sounder idea than NFT artworks.

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Melting_Harps 1886 days ago
> However ICOs are certainly a sounder idea than NFT artworks.

Both are bad ideas hatched from the ETH cohorts trying to make themselves relevant while selling buzzword laden pipe dreams and vapourware to idiot heads of state (Putin) [0] and imbecilic corpos with no idea of what they are doing.

This has to be a con by Vitalik, there is no way this guy really went from doing unSystem work to cryptokitties and NFTs.

Source: I worked for those imbecilic corpos.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyBwRl-sDzs

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