Tolkien estate blocks JRR Token crypto-currency

Log in or sign up to leave a comment level 1Do not take Tolkien for a conjurer of cheap trickslevel 2The crypto devs: “I’m not trying to rob you. I’m trying to help you!”level 2Agreed. I was really panicked Tolkien’s name was gonna be tainted by the bullshit that is crypto. Thank fuck (for real, I hate crypto so damn much.)level 2Comment removed by moderator · 1hlevel 1Considering how much he hated industrialization there is nothing about crypto Tolkien would be pleased with.level 2I was thinking the same thing so I read the article for once. It has nothing to do with his beliefs. It’s just intellectual property rights infringement.level 2What do you mean? The motto comes from the inscription on that really cool Ring from his books. The one that makes you invisible, and gives you all sorts of other neat powers?It’s not like naming your cryptocurrency after such a thing would imply that it’s evil or anything!/slevel 2Why not? I just want to have Tolkien Tokens.level 2I think the idea of non centralized currency he’d like but not the environmental impact or it being used as an investment instead of you know …. actual currency.level 1Now if they could attack the ads YouTube pre-roll ads for shitty mobile LOTR gameslevel 2I mostly get annoying crypto ads literally everywhere, I’d love to tradelevel 2″YOU can take part in the battle outside minis tirith, just like the first film!” makes me wince eeeevery timelevel 1Anybody who has been around for a minute will notice all of the Tolkien and LOTR and Hobbit tokens that are going to inevitably show up and scam people out of a sizable amount of money on the CryptoMoonShots sub.Just wait and watch. There’s always never a shortage of suckers that never learn to take advantage of on that sub.level 2always neverI’m going to assume you got autocorrected from “almost never”.