{"id":239,"date":"2014-01-05T22:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=239"},"modified":"2014-01-05T22:39:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T22:39:13","slug":"new-bitcoin-esque-cryptocurrency-named-after-kanye-west-launching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/cryptocurrency\/new-bitcoin-esque-cryptocurrency-named-after-kanye-west-launching.php","title":{"rendered":"New Bitcoin-Esque Cryptocurrency Named After Kanye West Launching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    First it was Bitcoin. Then came Dogecoin. Now, a group of    Internet denizens are creating a new form of e-currency -- and    it's got that New God Flow.  <\/p>\n<p>        As Noisey reports, a new cryptocurrency named after Kanye    West is about to hit the marketplace. Deemed Coinye West, the currency is    supposed to become available Jan. 11.  <\/p>\n<p>    In an interview with Noisey, the creators of Coinye West said    they're remaining anonymous \"in case kanye gets pissed off,\"    but the currency is totally legitimate. With a tagline of \"we    ain't minin', we pickin',\" Coinye West is created in the spirit    of, according to its creators, making it \"easier for people to    use cryptocurrency.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    \"We chose to represent Kanye because he is and always has been    a trendsetter, and hes always keeping things unique,\" the    Coinye creators added. \"I can picture a future where Coinye is    used to buy concert tickets, with cryptographically verified    virtual tickets, and other ideas I cant give away just yet.\"  <\/p>\n<p>    Yeezus himself isn't exactly behind the idea just yet, but that    hasn't stopped the creators of Coinye West from reaching out to    the rapper in the hope that he'll invest -- or, at least, not    get mad about its existence.  <\/p>\n<p>    \"Have you ever invested in bitcoin or litecoin?\" its creators    asked West via Twitter. In the Noisey interview, they also    invited West to get in contact with them, offering the rapper    100,000 \"COINYE,\" as it's being called.  <\/p>\n<p>    No word on how the rapper feels about having a form of currency    named after him just yet.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Follow this link: <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billboard.com\/node\/5855158\" title=\"New Bitcoin-Esque Cryptocurrency Named After Kanye West Launching\">New Bitcoin-Esque Cryptocurrency Named After Kanye West Launching<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> First it was Bitcoin. Then came Dogecoin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[869],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}