Newegg Makes a Crypto Omelette With Eggcoin
Newegg, the $1 billion technology retailer, showed its humorous side this morning with the release of Eggcoin, a fictional cryptocurrency with its value tied to the price of a dozen eggs. “It needed to be valuable to our tech community, more efficient to mine, more friendly to monitor, it needed to be … eggier. ” says the jokester in the below video. The official Eggcoin website did not list information on how to obtain it at time of writing. Perhaps ShapeShift.io will make Eggcoin available alongside the recently skyrocketing Winklecoin. An Altcoin developer who wished not to be named....
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