New Cryptocurrency: Cantorcoin Collectibles

As I have remarked before, anyone can have their own cryptocurrency.  Just how low is the bar?

Pretty low.

Apparently whipped up in the last couple of weeks, in response to a very specific (and honestly, not that amazing) event:  Cantor coin, a collectible commemorative coin.  (Not sure how long these URLs will be around.)

This narrative is a parody which mashes up a generic  cryptocurrency story (literally cut and pasted), with souvenir collectible sales pitches (probably cut and paste as well).  It also pretends to be a Google project, with a project timer and so on (also cut and pasted from templates).

It appears to be more or less fully implemented (source code), though the web page isn’t even completely filled in, so I have to wonder if the source is really viable.  That’s a minor detail–obviously, the code could really work, even if it isn’t working yet.

Ta daa!   A new cryptocurrency!

Not only was the code mindlessly cloned, the narrative was cloned, almost mindlessly.

The next breakthrough–and I have actually thought about doing this–is a bot to autogenerate new cryptocurrencies without human intervention.