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When I first read the title I thought, "How did an Onion article make it to the front page of HN?"

There is a serious point here - as someone more familiar with the alcoholic beverage of the company's original name than its wholesome products, I think we need some blockchain-themed cocktails for the holidays (it's probably been done... does anyone have recipes?)

Something with a lot of fizz that leaves you with a bitter aftertaste and a bad hangover?

Looks like there's already a bitcoin cocktail floating about: http://www.barmeister.com/drinks/recipe/7511/?o=by_date

Coke and Mentos, resulting in a briefly frothy mixture followed by a mostly empty glass.

That only works with diet coke.

It works with any carbonated drink, diet coke just happens to be the frothiest of the ones tested.

Cheap gin, soda water, and a salt rim. Depth charge a shot of Jagermeister for extra effect if the price of bitcoin has ended on a negative that day.

>we need some blockchain-themed cocktails for the holidays

"On the first day of blockchain, my true love gave to me: a ve-ry small pri-ime number!"

The Satoshi Nakamoto

Stir Japanese whiskey (2 oz), dry vermouth (1 oz), absinthe (teaspoon), and Peychaud's bitters (2 shakes) well with cracked ice, then strain into a chilled cocktail glass.

Optional: micropipette the drink into 100,000,000 smaller drinks.

The Satoshi Nakamoto [1]

Don't know what (some amount), Anything else (little bit), Unknown item (in large portions)

1. That I have been drinking

And for every day of December you use 10% more alcohol, until on New Years you don't use any.

Buy a fifth of your favorite liquor.

Give it to someone you've never met.

Enjoy.

A decent beer that's been left out a little too long - solid fundamentals that haven't necessarily achieved quite what you want, and may be on the verge of going bad at any moment. Add bitters to taste.

(Not really a cocktail, but oh well :p).

    1. Use a freezer to make a tray of ice cubes
    2. Use a kettle to boil water
    3. Pour the boiling water over the ice and enjoy lukewarm water that required an excess of power to create.

Here ya go https://www.reddit.com/r/nottheonion/

That's exactly what I thought. And then I saw Bloomberg, and then thought maybe it's an old article from April 1.

Will Bitcoin be remembered as the Netscape of the CryptoCurrency Bubble?

The question is who is going to be the Chrome Browser and Firefox?

Wait, that's not how it was. You left IE6 out, which is significant.

If BTC is Netscape, I'd say ETH is IE6 and it will stay for a while. Chrome and FF is not even on the horizon.

Yes, I thought of that but probably IE6 will be a CryptoCurrency launched by a big company like Facebook, Apple or other.

In that case, IOTA.

Ardor will be the Firefox or Chrome...

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