Goatse Keeps Trying to Make Money With Cryptocurrency
Goatse.cx, a website famous for once hosting an image of a man holding his asshole wide open, keeps trying to make a buck in the comparatively gross world of cryptocurrency.
The first whispers of a cryptocurrency associated with the Goatse.cx domain bubbled up in 2014, but it wasn't until 2017 that the site's homepage announced the impending birth of a Goatse Coin. At the time, the site's administrator told me he hoped to raise more than $100 million by selling the coins, and that the plan was to launch a kind of decentralized meme factory.
It's unclear if that ever fully materialized-the Goatse twitter account referenced giving away Goatse Coins and teased an app in March of last year-but it appears as though Goatse.cx has shifted gears once again to try and make some virtual cash.
Now, the Goatse.cx homepage lets anybody buy a patch of pixels in exchange for ether (the native token of the Ethereum blockchain) and fill it with an ad of their choosing.
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The "Thousand Ether Goatse," as the project is called, is a "fork" (meaning it copied code from an existing open-source project) of a site called the "Thousand Ether Homepage," which is the exact same thing but not Goatse. In turn, the "Thousand Ether Homepage" was inspired by the "Million Dollar Homepage," a website created in 2005 that sold pixels for $1 each.
"Thousand Ether Goatse" was announced on Twitter in November of last year. With 6,000 pixels currently sold, according to the Goatse.cx homepage, at .001 ETH (currently worth around $104) per pixel, the person behind the site has presumably already made around $624.
As for what the person behind the site plans to do with all of that cash, according to the FAQ, they want to "buy a lambo," as in a Lamborghini. Maybe the Hot Wheels version?
I reached out to the Goatse.cx administrator for comment on the site's latest venture, but they weren't immediately available.
From gaping assholes to cryptocurrency-oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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