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Title: [2015-02-14] Time.com: An Artist Mints Her Own Take on Bitcoin Post by: pawel7777 on February 14, 2015, 03:41:04 PM http://time.com/money/3703658/an-artist-mints-her-own-take-on-bitcoin/ (http://time.com/money/3703658/an-artist-mints-her-own-take-on-bitcoin/)
Quote Virtual currency like Bitcoin has captured the imagination of a lot of people, from techies to economists to drug dealers. Now, artists are riffing on the idea, and one is trying to use it to fund her work—and to raise some new questions about what makes both money and art precious. Sarah Meyohas, a Wharton School of Business grad who is currently finishing up her MFA in Photography at Yale University, is launching her own digital currency, which she calls, cheekily, BitchCoin. (“If you’re a woman who is taking a stake in your future and aggressive, you’re a bitch,” says Meyohas.) Unlike Bitcoin, which is computer-generated by its users, BitchCoin represents a claim on a tangible asset, in this case Meyohas’ photographic prints. One virtual coin is supposed to correspond to 25 square inches of print. Each time Meyohas creates a coin, she’ll set aside a print in bank vault. Here's the link to her own crypto: http://www.bitchcoin.biz/ Title: Re: [2015-02-14] Time.com: An Artist Mints Her Own Take on Bitcoin Post by: unamis76 on February 14, 2015, 07:15:25 PM Seriously not getting what she wants with this... Will the coin even be tradeable? Or she just prices it however she wants? Why not just accept BTC for her artworks?
This is more like a publicity stunt, using the cryptocurrency hype train... Title: Re: [2015-02-14] Time.com: An Artist Mints Her Own Take on Bitcoin Post by: pawel7777 on February 14, 2015, 09:07:11 PM Seriously not getting what she wants with this... Will the coin even be tradeable? Or she just prices it however she wants? Why not just accept BTC for her artworks? This is more like a publicity stunt, using the cryptocurrency hype train... I don't get that either. Apparently she's trying to do some sort of pre-sale. The whole project seems very poorly organised imo. They also have own thread on this forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=951783.0 Title: Re: [2015-02-14] Time.com: An Artist Mints Her Own Take on Bitcoin Post by: arctos on February 14, 2015, 10:10:03 PM Its tatianacoin all over again
Title: Re: [2015-02-14] Time.com: An Artist Mints Her Own Take on Bitcoin Post by: unamis76 on February 15, 2015, 02:38:49 PM Seriously not getting what she wants with this... Will the coin even be tradeable? Or she just prices it however she wants? Why not just accept BTC for her artworks? This is more like a publicity stunt, using the cryptocurrency hype train... I don't get that either. Apparently she's trying to do some sort of pre-sale. The whole project seems very poorly organised imo. They also have own thread on this forum: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=951783.0 Thanks for linking the thread here :) Its tatianacoin all over again I don't know what coin was that, but apparently there is already a bitchcoin lol |