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Japan's Latest Sensation is a Cryptocurrency Pop Group (engadget.com)
An anonymous reader quotes Engadget:
If you're starting a pop group in Japan, where giant rosters and virtual superstars are par for the course, how do you stand out? By tying yourself to something trendy -- and in 2018, that means cryptocurrency. Meet Kasotsuka Shojo (Virtual Currency Girls), a J-pop group where each of the eight girls represents one of the larger digital monetary formats. Yes, you're supposed to cheer for bitcoin or swoon over ethereum (what, no litecoin?). The group played its first concert on January 12th, and naturally you had to pay in cryptocurrency to be one of the few members of the general public to get in. The group's first single, "The Moon and Virtual Currencies and Me," warns listeners about the perils of fraud and extols the virtues of good online security.
"It isn't clear how French maid outfits symbolize cryptocurrency or blockchain technology," notes Quartz, "but they're popular costumes in Japan's anime and cosplay circles."
"It isn't clear how French maid outfits symbolize cryptocurrency or blockchain technology," notes Quartz, "but they're popular costumes in Japan's anime and cosplay circles."
What? Is this for real?
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Stop being weird.
I don't read AC
French maid outfits? Music? I love BAND-MAID. Oh, wait, just another fake idol group.
Is this the modernized international version of jumping the shark? I suspect so. When Wall Street and J-Pop are fascinated by something it may be over.
It seems that the Japanese want to anthropomorphize everything. If you watch any anime you are familiar with this.
Maybe the most extreme example I have seen is Kantai Collection. The story is full of cute girls. Each one is a Japanese war ship. Not, mind you, a symbol for or otherwise a representative of the war ship but actually THE war ship. And they take on physical attributes for example the carriers have big physiques and the destroyers are all little younger girls. Aside from being cute girls they have deadly battles.
One is left to wonder if the fan base is supposed to (or actually does) fantasize about having sex with a battleship (or a carrier, or a destroyer).
This seems fairly normal in comparison.
Or is this actually the other side, peak being the cryptocurrency milk.
I presume that a crypto-cheese derivative is also in the works.
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No Dogecoin, I observe. Perhaps that'll come later, when the initial surprise dies down (estimation: eight days) and they grow desperate for attention. Perhaps they're saving the unmasking for then, although I remember having KISS take off their make-up didn't impress anyone.
I'm sticking with Johnny Cash.
And swing chains with blocks?
I think that Bitcoin girl is a total slut. It seems like every other day I hear someone new has forked her.
Still a better business proposition than investing in cryptocoins, at this point. Nobody has yet made a *useful* cryptocoin - Bitcoin is proving to be an absolutely horrid transaction processor, Ethereum is trying to be something else, and nobody I have seen will accept anything else. Without the utility value of a currency enabling transactions, cryptocoins have only speculation value - and things with only speculation value trend towards zero.
Meanwhile, J-Pop idol groups are pretty bog-standard entertainment, from an economics standpoint at least. "Entertainment" does have intrinsic value, after all. I don't know if they'll be successful, but it's at least *possible* for them to succeed. And when cryptocoins crash, they can switch to some other gimmick.
In other words, I would much rather invest by buying shares in whatever music label owns this band, than in any cryptocoin company.
This kind of thing will only accelerate the shrinking and eventual disappearance of Asian male genitals. In a few generations the only thing which distinguishes Asian women from Asian men, will be that the women are married to some fat, bald sex-tourist Western ex-pat.
Some may even buy the effeminate Asian men too, if the price is right.
Is this group really a "pop sensation" once you get away from the virtual pages of Engadget?
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not /. worthy news.
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They would call themselves the Ted DiBinarybases.
... this isn't the most ridiculous use of cryptocurrency that's in the news.
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Sum up all these comments and you can see how much passion there is here AGAINST cryptocurrency. I think everyone here need to learn from these girls. Turn your frigging selves around and gain insight into this community. It's growing stronger, bigger, and it's frigging happy too. It's also technical. Get out of your mothers basements (or dont, good place to do some mining) and look out there. It's social, it's fun, it's very technical. Does it scare you that it's grown so fast? Does it scare you that computers have grown 10000% faster/bigger storage in a decade? What will it take to stop the negativity? Just because money is involved doesn't make it bad. Just because speculation is involved doesn't make it bad. What is causing so much hostility here? Go to one meetup and you'll see its actually a good movement with a lot of good people in it with good intentions.
Pfft. Wake me when there's Cryptocurrency Hentai.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
"It isn't clear how French maid outfits symbolize cryptocurrency or blockchain technology,"
Of course they don't, but does it really matter? Eye candy is eye candy.
If it wasnt for me trusting the opinion on people posting on this site i would have bought bitcoin under 100$. Shame really...
So many salty curmudgeons here hoping for it to fail. Many of you need to grow up and do some research.
Latest maybe... I wouldn't exactly call them a sensation yet. I hate "weird Japan" articles.