Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for participating in Jacobcoin, the world’s first honest ICO, or Investor Cheating Operation. Our motto is: “The nerd you beat up on in high school is already a crypto-millionaire, so what are you waiting for?”

Introduction and Mission Statement

Cryptographic distributed ledgers, or “blockchains” as your grandma calls them, are an exciting emerging technology. They have the potential to revolutionize the economy, the legal system, and the collection of digital cats.

To be fair, it’s quite unlikely that I, Jacob, am going the one to turn the promise of blockchain into a reality. But then again, the same could be said of a company that makes juice, a company that makes juice and also ice tea, and a banana plantation in Laos. And y’all still gave them millions of dollars, so who knows?

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[-]Elo6y20

Boo. Eww gross. Don't tell people this. It's dumb, mean and wrong.

Moderation note: could you rephrase this more constructively? What is it you object to?

(Is this referring to the full post, or just the one-sentence preview before I made it a proper linkpost?)