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Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by madamelic on Monday July 09, 2018 @04:40PM (#17493255)
>One could argue that if you have to dip down to the level of porn just to find some value, ICOs are worth dismissing

One could also argue that when porn starts adopting a technology, you should adopt it too because that tech is what is going to win.

Porn has consistently chosen the winners and any tech that discourages or disallows porn's involvement loses.

Re:Half of ICOs Die Within Four Months After Token Sales Fin... by notahacker on Monday July 09, 2018 @05:07PM (#17493435)
Contrary to popular belief, porn was available on Betamax...

More to the point is there any evidence of the mainstream porn user actually adopting SpankChain (or any of the other supposed "blockchains for porn") as opposed to ICO profiteers adopting pornography as a relatively plausible potential future business model to sell unnecessary tokens at an implausibly high value?

Just had a look at the company page of the service. The CEO is a "decentralization laser gun" who boasts about how much money he raised in other ICOs (hmmm...) as well as his favourite computer games. In lieu of an actual testimonial, we get him in blockquote saying "we've honestly got the best team ever". Apparently this is one of the more promising ICOs and yet it's making me feel the SEC parody ICO site was a bit mild...