Cryptocurrency (and related fuckery)

[smulder]

I just saw this in a search result (from long ago)

Boingcoin

I guess this is a meta topic so here goes. Edit: To avoid confusion I’m going to leave the introduction as it was when I originally created the topic but will leave this here as I believe the intent of the thread is unclear. Not much time to really engage with this right now, have to leave this here and come back later to elaborate but… Why not a boingboing currency for the community? It seems that this is how the format is advancing and value can be derived from community interactions s…