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New Cologne Answers the Question: "What Does a Bitcoin Smell Like?"

Posted by samzenpus on from the because-we-can dept.

samzenpus (5) writes "You may not be Satoshi Nakamoto, but thanks to Virginia-based eco-products company Eruditium, you can now smell like him, her, or them. The company claims Bitcologne is "made for peer-to-peer interaction" adding, "It's an aromatic blend of spicy, floral, oak and citrus notes your 'partner' may find it hard to resist initiating a more private transaction.'" A bottle costs about $26 or 0.0608 Bitcoin."

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  1. Re:"What Does a Bitcoin Smell Like?" by bobthesungeek76036 · · Score: 1

    Smells like Beta... :P

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  2. "made for peer-to-peer interaction" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    TIL: All you need to do to get a /. plug is to take a completely ordinary and cheap product, slap on a name of a trending tech related word or brand, and presto!
    Now you are no better then the people who go Hot Topic and find the "Buzzinga!" shirts absolutely hilarious!

  3. In The Library by I Hate Perfume by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I don't wear cologne or perfume, but if I did, it would be this one:

    http://cbihateperfume.com/shop/perfumes-a-to-z/306

    It's a cologne based on the smell of a library. Brilliant!

  4. Too easy... by dugancent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Desperation.

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    1. Re:Too easy... by Mashiki · · Score: 2

      I thought it was "burning" with a side of "getting screwed over." Though not quite as strong in the flavor and smell as government based colognes.

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    2. Re:Too easy... by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1

      Smells like bacon, tastes like chicken, served with a side order of refried Beanie Babies.

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  5. So this is the stuff... by fleabay · · Score: 3, Insightful

    that matters?!?

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    1. Re:So this is the stuff... by Killjoy_NL · · Score: 1

      Lighten up, it's funny :)
      Not everything has to be all serious.

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  6. Metric Dollars by 31415926535897 · · Score: 1

    A bottle costs about $26 or 0.0608 Bitcoin.

    This makes it sound like bitcoins are metric dollars. I prefer the Imperial measurement.

  7. Thanks Betteridge by complete+loony · · Score: 4, Funny

    "What does bitcoin smell like?"

    No. Just no.

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  8. The question no one was asking by rebelwarlock · · Score: 4, Informative

    Because digital goods don't carry physical properties, you fucking tool.

  9. Dust by maxwells_deamon · · Score: 1

    It is created by computers. Thus it smells link the dust that comes out when I use a can of air to clean my computer

  10. Free advertisement by enriquevagu · · Score: 2

    Invent anything you want to sell, name it after bitcoin and you receive free advertisement in Slashdot front page!

    1. Re:Free advertisement by pla · · Score: 2

      The problem here comes from having two groups of people in the world - People who like dousing themselves in mostly-alcohol every morning, and people who hate the first group for making the office reek like a French whorehouse. Thankfully, perfume (and cologne - Males don't get a pass on this one) wearers fall into a small minority, but it only takes one or two to ruin it for everybody.

      As for Bitcoin specifically... Can you say "jumped the shark"? And make no mistake, I quite like Bitcoin and use it, well, if not "regularly", a few times a year (and yes, for entirely legal purchases - My weed dealer only takes USD, haters!). But the "scent" of a virtual currency? Pathetic.

      / like a slightly-too-warm video card baking off the nauseating aroma of cigarette tar clogging the heat sink.

  11. Go ahead and knock it by GeekWithAKnife · · Score: 2


    You see, diamonds are not really worth anything, neither are black pearls...but once people started marketing those with other goods that had an established perceived value guess what happened?

    Sure, cryptocurrency is not physical so cannot have a smell but if this fragrance is any good it ADDS to the perceived value of bitcoin.

    I've seen and heard a lot of criticism of bitcoin for all sorts of reasons but at the end of the day we did once move from bartering apples for goat to coins to the gold standard to currency (Which IS virtual money) & we will move to an all digital economy. Maybe that will be bitcoin.

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    1. Re:Go ahead and knock it by Yunzil · · Score: 1

      but once people started marketing those with other goods that had an established perceived value guess what happened?

      A few people hoarded them and drove the price artificially high?

  12. Re:smells like... by jellomizer · · Score: 1

    As if there are any legitimate ways to earn bitcoins.

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  13. diamonds have real value by pr100 · · Score: 1

    Most diamonds mined are used in for practical industrial purposes and have value for that reason.

  14. Do by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I detect a whiff of fedora?

  15. at 26$ by WormholeFiend · · Score: 1

    it does not smell enough like money, so you will definitely stay single if you wear it.

  16. Re:Va? by Talderas · · Score: 1

    So you're a gay fish?

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  17. No, the cate does not "got my tongue". by Impy+the+Impiuos+Imp · · Score: 3, Funny

    > "New Cologne Answers the Question: What Does a Bitcoin Smell Like?"

    Well, I sure as hell don't want to know what a Doge Coin smells like.

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  18. dank by ThatsDrDangerToYou · · Score: 1

    All the good smells were taken.