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1. Nolan Darilek (nolan@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 15-Jan-2018 22:06:24 EST Nolan Darilek

   This whole ICO craze has me seriously tempted to put my most ambitious life plans into a whitepaper, slap together a Bootstrap website, promise to blog about my progress/open source any software I build to realize my goals, then sell a thousand NolanCoins to raise money. I'm simultaneously half serious, half desperate, and a lot terrified that it'd actually work, leaving me stuck figuring out WTH I'd do with my questionably-gotten millions.

   1. Mayel - ghost account (mayel@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Jan-2018 04:40:36 EST Mayel - ghost account

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      @nolan
      I think a lot of techies have been thinking the same (especially us perpetually broke ones). Something to think about though: at a time when we are able to create money out of thin air, why are ICOs in the business of soliciting capital from whales and suckers? Oh right, to get rich quick before the bubble busts... Projects creating real value in the long term should be able to *create* that value from within, not relying on exchanges from other currencies.