Crypto Companies Cashing in on the Name of Bitcoin’s Founding Fathers
Bitcoin is a powerful brand. Even uttering its name – or that of its underlying technology, blockchain – can be enough to revive tired companies and send stock prices soaring. But Bitcoin isn’t the only name strategically deployed for marketing purposes: companies are also shamelessly cashing in on the name of the cryptocurrency’s founding fathers.
Hijacking the Bitcoin Brand
Pseudonymous, enigmatic, and unknowable, Satoshi Nakamoto was bound to leave a legacy. Responsible for one of the greatest inventions of the 21st century, Satoshi’s name has kept resonating long after he submitted his final Bitcointalk post and went AFK for time indefinite. His name has come to be used for everything from the smallest unit of bitcoin – a satoshi – to educational initiatives such as the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, an organization set up to share cryptography ideas.
These instances, and many more which take the pseudonym of bitcoin’s creator, demonstrate the respect that the community has for Satoshi, whoever they were. There are other cases of “Satoshi dropping” though where it’s hard to shake the feeling that it’s more about brand hijacking than crediting Nakamoto’s genius. There’s Satoshi Brewery, for example, a Russian project that promised to create the world’s first brewery token. Its ICO page has since disappeared, and the brewery’s website is just a holding page, which doesn’t bode well for the project. Uttering the name of Satoshi is no protection against mediocrity.
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https://news.bitcoin.com/crypto-companies-cashing-name-bitcoins-founding-fathers/
