Any kind of attention is good because there is profit in it. In addition to the authors of ransomware, the designers of blockchain tokens also use this. For example, a group of anonymous Ethereum developers has released an ERC-20-based Coronacoin (NCOV). The project website is currently offline.
The amount of tokens is regulated by a macabre mechanism. In the beginning, as many tokens were issued as there are inhabitants on earth. The quantity decreases every 48 hours, and one token is destroyed for every (real) corona infected person. If experts predict that, in the long term, 60-70 percent of the population will need to be infected at least once in order for the herd to develop immunity, the Corona token could be a not so bad investment – if the developers keep their promises, for which there can, of course, be no guarantee.
At the same time, the developers are planning to release a game as a smart contract for the tokens. The game is said to be a mixture of the board game Risk and the computer game Plague Inc. The goal is to wipe out the human race with a virus. Players should be able to design viruses that come on the blockchain as a non-fungible token, like the CryptoKitties, while the corona coins act as a kind of betting token in the game. Since the developers have taken the advice of virologists, the game should be reasonably realistic and also enlighten. To win, you have to become a virus expert yourself, knowing which parameters (mortality, spread) and under what circumstances (temperature, material liability) make a virus most human victims.
While this corona token still appears to be innovative and also wants to provide educational fun, there are other tokens that just seem to be free-riders. There is now also the Corona Virus Token (CNV) and the coin CORONA (CORONA). bitcoin dice While CORONA is supposed to be distributed via “infected addresses” to attract attention, there is hardly any information about CNV.
Ethereal conference will take place virtually after Corona spreads across the Ethereum scene
The Ethereum conference Ethereal will not take place live at the beginning of May as originally planned. The actual event in New York was postponed until autumn, while the first virtual Ethereal conference will take place in early May. Bitcoin events such as the Socrates seminar also take place in virtual space. …