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by Joeboy 4566 days ago
I think perhaps this one differs in that it is a deliberate reductio ad absurdum version of the others.
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Indeed. It's a commentary on the "me to" nature of the cryptocurrency scene. Anybody can clone bitcoin-qt and change the strings to "MyCoin" or "GiveMeBucksPls". BBQCoin is in the same vein.

What's absurd is that these meta-joke coins can still speedily acquire value. The price of Dogecoin has doubled or tripled in the last 2 days on this exchange (volume is tiny) https://coinedup.com/OrderBook?market=DOGE&base=BTC

Is it still a joke then? Yes, but some people clearly don't think so. If you extrapolated the final market capitalization from the current price, it would already have reached over $10m

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