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HypChain, the first completely hypothetical blockchain (hypchain.com)
109 points by SigmaEpsilonChi on Jan 2, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 36 comments



I love the use of ai art in this


Lower ridicule by like 20% and you could sell that to investors year or two ago


pretty sure someone did. They were tracking their coins in an MS Access database or something like that, and when they needed to mine more, it just meant adding some more rows in the database


I think you're thinking of a satire by Matt Levine, recurring in several issues of Money Stuff.


Or OneCoin

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OneCoin

There's a nice podcast about the scam and the ongoing search for its key promoter: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/p07nkd84


Only if satire can send you to jail for fraud


I suppose we're thinking of different things then, and life and art are immitating each other. My mistake.


Which of the 9 levels of nothing are we talking when we say "Proof-of-Nothing"? I'm gonna need to see a whitepaper :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhfqdBk8qxk


Now, too much of nothing can make a man feel ill at ease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOdU8FX6J1M


The kind of nothing which the mere thought of for more than five seconds fills one with existential dread.


Zero-knowledge: proof of your lack of knowledge made me laugh hard ;D

Note: it's funny because zero-knowledge proofs are hard to understand, and there is an enormous landscape of them.


Lady Bracknell: I've always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything, or nothing. Which do you know?

Earnest: I know nothing, Lady Bracknell.

Lady Bracknell: I am pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate, exotic fruit. Touch it, and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrQQAa6AARc

Lady Bracknell: A handbag??!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyuoUwxCLMs

(Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest)


I don't get how it's related to the comment, but I am quite eager to watch the movie this evening :)


Ignorance is bliss


The gobbledygook in the Stable Diffusion images is actually a nice touch.


As someone who works in crypto this is bloody hilarious.


Feel free to use MyBlockchain https://www.myblockchain.xyz/


https://tulipcoins.github.io/

“What is a mania without some tulips”.


Finally a genuine use for blockchains!


Hypothetically this could even be considered a mockchain but that's probably going too far


I was expecting a blockchain that runs on a quantum computer.


Are the rug-pulls on this chain only hypothetical as well?


No hypothetically they are very real


Lol, you guys have a sense of humor


Bobchain already did this


Yeah but hypothetically they didn't


This is probably the most honest website for crypto that I have seen.


I sent 0.01 BTC but have not received anything yet...

When will I become rich?


Maybe you didn't send it right. Better do another just to be sure. Best case scenario, you get double-rich.


This is the way


You are already rich, hypothetically.


You're getting it!!



You got scammed. Hopefully this scam is removed soon.


I just checked, the bitcoin wallet is still empty. I already sent them the hypcoin though, looks like I'm the one who got scammed :*(


Haha this is good it's almost believable




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