THELOGICALINDIAN - Some bodies alarm them cryptocurrencies Others alarm them altcoins or alts But to abounding theyre accepted as shitcoins agenda currencies that are like bitcoin but able-bodied crappier Sure they may avowal faster affairs and lower fees but they abridgement the cast acceptance arrangement furnishings and addictive name Without they were destined to be doomed
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What’s in a Name?
Deadcoins.com is a athenaeum of the affliction bill anytime foisted aloft the cryptocurrency community. Some were consistently a joke; others became a joke; and others were artlessly accursed with adverse names which meant they never got off the ground. Highlights accommodate Scamcoin with its “innovative affidavit of betray system” and AssPennies: “Created in 2014, this bread was the shittiest of the aboriginal shitcoin craze”.
Other abstract that are asleep in the baptize accommodate Fck Banks Coin, Fellatiocoin (it blew), Groincoin, and Crimsoncoin whose devs “sold their bill and ran off in beneath than a week”. No prizes for academic what happened to DodoCoin. If you anticipate that’s as low as it goes, band in and authority on bound cos we’re aloof accepting started.
Lying in the Gutter While Looking at the Moon
Among the also-rans that clutter Deadcoins are the afterward monstrosities: AllAgesCoin, Alcohoin, Allahcoin, BlobbyCoin, Boringcoin, Crapcoin, CryptoMeth, Dubstepcoin, DeleteCoin, FAILCoin (it alike fabricated Coinmarketcap), FraudCoin, Furrycoin, KarpelesCoin, MtGoxcoin, Klingon Empire Darsek and Brokebackmountaincoin. But alike if we booty the asleep bill out of the equation, the accepted crop of hopefuls doesn’t augur well.
Head to Cryptopia and you can acquisition such tradable delights as Unobtanium Condensate (its ticker is RAIN), FootyCash, SiberianChervonets, LiteDoge, Athenian Warrior Token (the alone ATH it’ll be seeing is its ticker), GayCoin, KangarooBits, BenjiRolls, StopTrumpCoin, WeAreSatoshi, FuzzBalls, HodlBucks (okay so that one’s affectionate of air-conditioned actually), and Cthulu Offerings.
There’s a Shitcoin Born Every Minute
If your Cryptopia accoutrements are currently boring you down, at atomic you didn’t try to buy Chichicoin. Launched in 2024, Deadcoins explains, “the applicant was malware; it independent a wallet actor and key logger.” Back in the actuality and now, the beneath said about Metaverse ETP, KuCoin Shares, and Walton – a name so bulky it’s about air-conditioned – the better.
The afflatus for this post, incidentally, was Techcrunch’s 100 Cryptocurrencies Described in Four Words or Less, which gave acceleration to at atomic one Twitter riposte which opined that SingularDTV “sounds like a disease”. Around the aforementioned time, a adventure emerged about a abrasive arctic British burghal ablution its own amusing albatross coin. Its name, in befitting with the burghal that spawned it? HullCoin. Imagine allotment your city, and its agnate shitcoin, afterwards the basal of a boat.
The apriorism for this column ability assume flippant, but it does accord abeyance for thought. If Satoshi had called his conception KangarooBits, would we accept aloof affected $9,000, or would we still be in the gutter, attractive at the moon? Forget blockchain, affidavit of assignment and immutability. Satoshi’s ability was to name it bitcoin.
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