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Messenger App Kik Debuts Its Own Digital Currency (bloomberg.com)
The messaging app Kik Interactive has decided to create its own digital currency. Kik's plans are for an "initial coin offering," a process by which it sells tokens that can be used to buy services on its platform. "The idea is that as more and more people use Kik, the value of those tokens, called 'Kin,' will rise in value," reports TechCrunch. From the report: Kik, which has raised about $120 million (in real money) from investors including Tencent Holdings Ltd., could serve to add a new layer of legitimacy to the process. "Kik will be the largest install base of cryptocurrency users in the world," Chief Executive Officer Ted Livingston said. "Kin, on day one will be the most-used cryptocurrency in the world." The move comes as Kik finally reveals how many people actually use its app regularly each month: 15 million. That's a far-cry from the 300 million total registered users number it was sharing around this time last year. Kik plans to gift a certain amount of Kin to each user. They'll be able use the new currency to buy games, live video streams and other digital products. The company's goal is to attract new merchants to sell on the platform, creating a snowball effect where Kin becomes more valuable and more sellers pile onto Kik, increasing its popularity.
Seems more like scrip than cryptocurrency to me.
Kik was the company that had the NPM package name, kik, taken away from the developer for trademark reasons and the developer broke the Iternet by deleting his packages (including the ever popular song
Liberals went crazy because a gay, and later a woman, tried to give speeches at Berkley.
I think you are pointing at the wrong people who are the racists/homophobes/misogynists.
Tell me again which party had a KKK leader in the Senate for decades? Let me give you a hint, it was Robert Byrd (D).
Which party filibustered the Civil Rights act? Again D
Which party wanted to stop women from voting? Again D
Which party literally started a war in order to keep slavery? Again D
Make all the claims you want, I have evidence and history showing the exact opposite.
Kik is positioning themselves for cam girls (and boys) to get paid.
At last! An opportunity to make back my losses from my speculative investments in Linden Dollars.
The real racist say "Blacks can't use cell phones" because ... they're black and don't know how. Mostly white liberals on college campuses.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I know this doesn't fit the agenda of the left, parroting the mantra that "white people are racist" in the way they want. But the fact is, the biggest racists I know are those white liberals running around making excuses as to why black people need help, simply because of their skin color.
The greatest example is, watching a white liberal explain how black people need to wear their pants around their knees, as if it were some racial trait that cannot be overcome.
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You're talking about the 'Southern Democrats', a group of reactionaries who blamed the Republicans for the Civil War, the Reconstruction, and equal rights. They voted solidly Democrat until Johnson "betrayed" them by enacting the Civil Rights Act.
Unfortunately, America's two-party system left those emigres nowhere to go but the Republican party, and so the party of civil rights and social liberty from Lincoln to Eisenhower turned into what we see today.
How can I believe you when you tell me what I don't want to hear?
Token White
this title really begs for an ethnic slur/stereotype based pun.
Do you know perchance if owners of that messenger are Jewish?
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And what's wrong with that? An opportunity for enterprising folks to (mostly) cut out the middlemen/gatekeepers.
Screw the USD
What are these "Federal Reserve Notes" of which you speak.
My US Dollars are stored in book-entry form at my bank.
They must be worth something because the grocer store gladly accepts a that piece of plastic along with my PIN that instructs my bank to transfer some of those dollars to his bank in exchange for something that I can eat.
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
Never heard of the app, then I went to look further into it:
"On November 4, 2014, Kik scored 1 out of 7 points on the Electronic Frontier Foundation's secure messaging scorecard."
"Kik Messenger has drawn controversy due to its reported involvement in a number of incidents of child exploitation. The app has been criticized as unsafe for minors due to its anonymity features and allegedly weak parental control mechanisms."
"Kik has been criticized for providing inadequate parental control over minors' use of the app. The ability to share messages without alerting parents has been noted as "one of the reasons why teens like Kik".Parents cannot automatically view their child's Kik communications remotely from another device, but instead must have the password to their child's user account and view the communications on the same device used by their child."
Yeah... I mean, I'm fully expecting messaging apps to have payment options and to even implement virtual stores as a feature of sorts, but this is the worst way of it happening.
to limit universality of universal commodity called money
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