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CoronaCoin Crypto Emerges, and it’s as Bad as it Sounds

Christina Comben by Christina Comben
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The first major news agency to lead with the story of the CoronaCoin was Reuters. It was then quickly picked up by the New York Post, where the facts were immediately skewed. Their article compares the CoronaCoin to BTC. “The Bitcoin-like cryptocurrency,” it says.

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What’s CoronaCoin backed by? The COVID-19 virus itself. And it has an in-build scarcity to make your blood run cold. The number of available tokens available decreases as more people die. 

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Just When You Think It Can’t Get Any Worse

If you thought it was a sick joke, sadly, it’s not. The CoronaCoin probably highlights most of what’s wrong with the cryptocurrency industry–and humanity in general.

And it gets worse. Guess how many tokens were issued? A set number of 7,604,953,650–to represent the estimated global population. The website reads:

Token will be burnt once every 48 hours based on the number of INFECTED + FATALITIES, so the token is deflationary; and also non-mintable.

As of the time of writing, 92,013 tokens had been burned. 

One saving grace for CoronaCoin is that it wants to give something back for the profit it makes off of all that human suffering. Apparently, its creators will donate some 20% of its monthly supply to the Red Cross. Whether or not the Red Cross will receive donations in CoronaCoin is another question entirely.

What do you make of the CoronaCoin cryptocurrency? Add your thoughts below.


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