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January 8, 2014 05:08 pm GMT

CoinyeCoin Launches Despite Cease and Desist From Kanye West

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A new cryptocurrency called CoinyeCoin launched Tuesday despite a cease-and-desist letter from Kanye West's lawyers to the coders behind the project

The new cryptocurrency sounds like a joke, with the motto "WE AIN'T MININ', WE PICKIN," and boasting a maximum number of coins to ever be mined at 66,666,666,666. However, as we found out in the case of Dogecoin — another currency that recently sprouted from an Internet meme and has since gone viral — a joke cryptocurrency can also be very real and quite valuable

See also: Robocoin's Bitcoin ATMs Heading to Taiwan and Hong Kong

For West's lawyers, CoinyeCoin simply represents trademark infringement Read more...

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