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Show HN: Create your own crapcoin in 3 minutes
- donttrack 8y agoYou should make an ICO out of this project.
- Cakez0r 8y ago1 token = 1 credit for creating a crapcoin? That would probably probably raise a decent amount of money...
- catnaroek 8y ago> 4. Viola! Send them to your friends or trade them The musical instrument?
- bhaak 8y agoI don't trust a shitcoin generator that doesn't know the proper nomenclature for the shitcoins it's generating.
- johnfactorial 8y agoBut people who also dont know that proper nomenclature may very well trust it.
- airstrike 8y agoYou don't have to be outsmart the bear, just outsmart the guy next to you. Bearcoin anyone?
- DonHopkins 8y agoSnoop should launch his own Shiznitcoin!
- typetehcodez 8y ago"Is it free? This website is free. But you have to pay a small amount of ether as a transaction fee for deploying your cryptocurrency contract." Shut up and take my money... to the moon!
- Cthulhu_ 8y agoI think the OP should make a crapcoin and sell it in order to be able to spend it on creating more crapcoins!
- stefantheard 8y agoThat would be so meta and craptacular. It must be done.
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoThis idea is obviously stupid but it really does expose the missing consistent, friendly front end experience for dApps. I have no idea what contract this is pointing to and what happens when I submit the transaction. MetaMask tells me some info but very little really. I don't know which buttons are going to trigger a MetaMask prompt and start an on chain transaction and which point to a centralized backend etc. Compare that to the web where I know underlined text takes me somewhere else, hover over will give me the URL, there are standard browser components for input fields, buttons etc. I'm really hoping there's a drop in framework for this which reaches mass adoption soon.
- streulpita 8y agoWe've been trying to tackle this at Hexel. We recently launched our own wallet and Discord integration so that you can send coins for free, to any email or Discord user. You can link your token to your Discord server and let anyone send it via chat. This makes it easy to actually use your token after creating it, and no MetaMask is required for most users (everyone except the token creator).
- albertgoeswoof 8y agoDiscord is a private proprietary service, right? Why did you choose to solve distribution over that instead of something more widely used, like the web?
- streulpita 8y agoDiscord is just an integration we offer. We also have a web wallet that lets you send tokens to anyone by email or username.
- herbst 8y agoThey obviously tackled the right crowd. Most of 'get rich quick' Ethereum discussions is happening on discord right now.
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- falsedan 8y ago> 4. Viola! Why not a cello, or a octobass? (should be 'Voila!')
- lower 8y agoI think 'Viola!' is just perfect for this.
- wpietri 8y agoAbsolutely. I use this in person whenever revealing something mundane or ridiculous. Guaranteed laugh.
- vrepsys 8y ago:) thanks, fixed.
- catnaroek 8y agoVoilà.
- TomK32 8y agoTuba fair the viola sounds just a fine here.
- purerandomness 8y ago*'Voilà!' SCNR
- amysox 8y ago(should be 'Voila!') Not the way I play it. ;)
- boffinism 8y agoSurely, SURELY this should have been called "Craptocurrency"
- gitgud 8y agoI can't believe I've never seen this before, just brilliant sir.
- viach 8y ago> 2. "Install MetaMask and get some ether" When programming stopped to be fun not requiring money?
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- jimmaswell 8y agoYou could probably mine the small amount of ether needed
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- nebulous1 8y agoYou're in luck! > I don't want to spend any real money. Can I still create a cryptocurrency? > Yes! You can create your cryptocurrency on one of Ethereum's test networks, instead of its main network. First, change the network to Ropsten or Rinkeby in MetaMask. Viola!
- tim333 8y agoYou need the ether for the etherium network to process the smart contract.
- seattle_spring 8y agoWe already have Coinbase for all of our shitcoin needs though.
- gargarplex 8y ago"The characteristic feature of the loser is to bemoan, in general terms, mankind's flaws, biases, contradictions, and irrationality — without exploiting them for fun and profit" -Taleb OP: If you want to make some money with this, send me an email. I get about 3 requests a week from get-rich-quick-minded people who want their own crypto. Not serious players, not credible businesspeople, just average Joes who want to get in while the getting's good. They would probably pay $500 or more. We could make this work.
- VikingCoder 8y agoWhat a fantastic quote.
- johnfactorial 8y agoI think its a villainous and cynical quote, but I expect no less from mankind with all its flaws and biases, contradictions and irrationality.
- mjburgess 8y agoThe loser is, at least, a person who thinks that way.
- vertexFarm 8y agoIt's nice when you can define yourself as clever and everyone else as a loser with an arbitrary quote. It doesn't really carry any weight, though.
- mjburgess 8y agoSee now I wasn't doing that. But here you are decrying oneupsmanship by trying to one-up me. And telling me the weight of my words at the same time you say oneupsmanship carrys no weight. Do you realise that you are the thing you dislike? In this instance, I was remarking that a person who thinks of themself as a loser is also the person who is likely to have adopted this cynical and resentful worldview. A person who opts into this "winner/loser" dynamic has already adopted the world view of one who can lose and will do so. Living-out-your-values doesnt entail winning or losing anything, rather, it is life measured by authenticity and integrity not "victory". The low self-regard, resentment and entitlement in this search for "victory" is fair game for mine and any one elses criticism. I dont need you to tell me the weight of my words, they are weighed according to my values, not yours.
- streulpita 8y agoIs there a reason you didn't use the SafeMath library for protecting against overflows? https://ethereumdev.io/safemath-protect-overflows/ https://ethereumdev.io/safemath-protect-overflows/
- saltenas 8y agoWe just used the erc20 template from the ethereum wiki. It looks useful although for the people that do want to understand how the contract works it adds complexity to the codebase itself. I definitely would use it for more complex smart contracts, but this one is meant to be easy and educational (like the whole app).
- nebulous1 8y agoLooks like it's just doing overflow checking inline ( "require(balanceOf[_to] + _value > balanceOf[_to])", for instance).
- DINKDINK 8y agoMy guess is that, in the spirit of all Ethereum Crapcoins, it's been coded with minimum attention to security and maximum attention to marketing.
- airstrike 8y agoI'm just sad this doesn't include a random shitcoin name generator
- 45h34jh53k4j 8y agoThis should be renamed. Garbage ETH tokens are not cryptocurrency they are 'shittokens'. This is 'Create your own (crap)token in 3 mins'. Not that its actually this hard -- copy paste ERC20 (and use a better version than this junk, maybe try SafeMath?).
- whatyoucantsay 8y agoGreatest domain name ever submitted.
- cathhhhji 8y agoWhat's the point of this if you can premine 50% of the coins and dump them if it ever takes off?
- hienyimba 8y agoFunny what the Crypto world has now become. Why I still believe in Crypto? For any new innovation to well, be sustained, it needs funding to last. Speculation helped get Crypto there just like speculation helped the dot-com to thrive. However, speculation wouldn't keep us there. We need to stop with the scams and jokes and get rich quick schemes (bitconnnnnnnect) in order to build lasting innovations.
- gfnord 8y agoThat's so true and some people are paying a lot of money for that.
- quickthrower2 8y agoDumb question but what does this create? Is it a new smart contract for a new currency on Ethereum?
- tim333 8y agoIt seems to be creating ERC20 tokens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERC20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERC20 I've invested up to 99c to make some TimCoins and should be able to sell you a few shortly.
- DonHopkins 8y ago>Q: I don't want to spend any real money. Can I still create a cryptocurrency? >A: Yes! You can create your cryptocurrency on one of Ethereum's test networks, instead of its main network. First, change the network to Ropsten or Rinkeby in MetaMask. So you can create fake crap currency for free! Free fake crap is much better than costly real crap, because it's not actually crap, while it's actually free.