Coinye West: THAT'S RIGHT, The Ye' is launching his own currency. [Must Read]

Coinye West: THAT'S RIGHT, The Ye' is launching his own currency. 

If you couldn’t get behind Bitcoin, the peer-to-peer digital cryptocurrency that’s as volatile as your weird uncle when he’s 3 glasses of gin deep, perhaps Coinye West is more your style. Like Dogecoin, the digital currency stamped with the glorious face of the Internet’s favorite Shibu Inu, the soon to debut Coinye West is piggybacking off of the success of Bitcoin and creating its very own unregulated currency that they hope Kanye himself will get behind.

“Our goal with Coinye West is to make it easier for people to use cryptocurrency,” the creators told Vice. “Right now, it’s kind of a dark art for people to mine coins.” To mine a Bitcoin, users must have an elaborate computer setup called a “mining rig” that will solve increasingly complicated mathematical problems in order to create new Bitcoins.

“We plan on releasing a front end to the ‘mining’ programs called CoinyeMiner,” the creators added. “It will make things a lot more simple and people will be able to make their own coins. We’re working round-the-clock to get everything going as smoothly as possible.”

Coinye’s creators say it’s a more mainstream cryptocurrency than Dogecoin or Bitcoin and they’re hoping it can be used to buy concert tickets, among other things.

Coinye West debuts January 11. Meanwhile, we eagerly await the creation of KimKoin.

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Microsoft's Talking Dirty About Google - Google Gets Revenge

Microsoft's Talking Dirty About Google - Google Gets Revenge

Last year, Microsoft’s marketing department made the questionable decision to go after Google with a “Scroogled” campaign that bashed its competitor on privacy issues. It primarily focused on the way Gmail scans private correspondence to serve up ads, and encouraged people to switch to Outlook which also scans what users have written but only to prevent spam and malicious attacks. (The argument would be much stronger coming from the Dark Mail Alliance, which proposes to encrypt email so that it can only be read by the recipient.) Despite mockery from the tech press and an anemic response from consumers, Microsoft is doubling down on the campaign and offering a line of “Scroogled” products just in time for the holidays. 

This stocking stuffer is already sold out

“LOL!  It’s already sold out!  If only the Surface is this popular,” wrote one software engineer linking to the mug, leading a colleague to add, “Probably sold out because Googlers bought them all up.”

“I’d buy some of these, just for ironic purposes, if it didn’t go toward propping up Microsoft,” wrote a Google developer, again linking to the mug.

“I desperately want a Scroogled T-Shirt to wear to work, but you have to have a Microsoft Account to buy one,” writes one Google systems engineer. “Really, MS? Your store that makes fun of the competition’s need to have user information requires a buyer to give you all their information to buy a T-shirt.”

John Gruber at Daring Fireball also suggests that the Mountain View crowd is buying the irony: “A few readers report that this ‘Scroogled’ cack is actually popular with… Google employees.”

Others were less impressed with the Scroogle swag. “Seriously? What are they smoking in MS marketing department?”commented one Google cloud engineer.

Meanwhile, one former Google engineer offered his own photoshopped version of the mug. “There, I fixed it for them,” he wrote, adding logos for Skype and the Xbox.

Google’s official response is a snarky one with this comment to the L.A. Times: “Microsoft’s latest venture comes as no surprise; competition in the wearables space really is heating up.” In other words, Google’s got Glass and Microsoft’s got silly t-shirts.

Google Gets Revenge:

A suggestion for Google from the peanut gallery: run a “Microshafted” campaign.