A (joke) cryptocurrency where you get paid to scalp

scalpcoin.xyz

20 points·anchpop··7 comments

> Scalpcoin will likely never happen, so don't invest if it not happening bothers you. This website is mostly a joke, but I do want to make some project based on this concept because I think it's funny, and if I do, members of the DAO will get some of whatever token it uses. INVEST IN THE SCALPCOIN DAO

It's just a joke haha... Unless?

Please don't make yet another coin that makes the world worse.

> Please don't make yet another coin that makes the world worse.

The world is worse, because someone made a smart contract as a weekend project?

Where would you start to create an alt coin nowadays?

I have no such plans, but I don't think that creating an esoteric smart contract causes more harm than telling people that their weekend project is making the world worse.

If you think that scalping is a bad thing, which I do, then further incentivising scalping is a bad thing. If it were just a joke then sure, it's a good satire of crypto, but the site says they've scripted a contract for it and if they get interest they'll try to commercialise it.

"scalping consumer electronics"

What does this mean? From the title I thought it meant the act of taking the top bit of skin off of someones head...

Being quick or lucky enough to purchase something at regular retail prices, and then turning around to see it at inflated (often greatly so) prices. Obviously it has to be done on items hard to get. Look at the consumer GPU market these days for an example.

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