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by ck2 4547 days ago
Who runs the nodes for bootstrap?

If the server that runs this is US based and they allow trademarks through, you'll get a C&D within a week. Lawyers make their money googling for this stuff.

All someone has to do is register "paypal" or "amazon" or "exxon" etc. and the fun will be over shortly.

Creator might want to take their name and home address off the domain registration.

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Displaying the names of unconfirmed entries is also probably not the best idea: http://coingen.io/status.html
Looks like someone followed the "advice" of ck2, ebaycoin, paypal and amazoncoin are in this page.
As is zoidbergcoin, which is a coin I could get behind.
Once again, the conservative, sandwich-heavy portfolio pays off for the hungry investor.
Using negative margins and thus displaying text outside of the viewable area of the page probably isn't the best idea, either. Hopefully their coin code is better than their ability to create a mobile web page.
People are so mature