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Solana Saga smartphone sells for up to $5K on eBay as Bonk frenzy causes sell-out (cointelegraph.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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This is genius.

Nobody wants to buy your crypto phone? Your warehouses are full and bills starts piling? Just create some monopoly money and give it to who buys that phone.

So now crypto is not only wasting the electricity for the most inefficient payment method ever created (for Bitcoin it takes a whole day to verify a number of transactions that Visa/Mastercard can do in less than a second) but also producing and shipping a phone all around the world, just for getting that monopoly money, then immediately trash the phone

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Solana (a company that created a crypto coin) created a $700 smartphone dedicated to crypto and other shitcoins. It was a massive failure. Nobody bought it. Until they created a new coin from thin air, and gave that for free to phone owners. Suddenly everyone wanted to buy the phone as you could get $900 by getting buying the phone, getting the free coins, immediately sell them, throw the phone.

Video review of the phone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRSMJGs0YMg

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Why does anybody want that coin?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

it's a meme coin so apparently it gives 100x value

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I remember when doge coin was a joke and was worth nearly nothing. sigh

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