Maricoin: Here’s how the first LGBT+ cryptocurrency plans to change the world
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Maricoin, the world’s first LGBT+ cryptocurrency, officially launched last Friday in a week-long pilot test in Chueca, an LGBT+ neighborhood in Madrid, Spain.

A play on words taken from a homophobic slur in Spanish, M^ricoin will also have its own LGBT-related language. For example, transfers between M^ricoin users are called “trans.”

Rainbow capitalism at its finest

  • Tervell [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    LGBT+ community’s economic clout

    the fucking what now

    • OperationOgre [he/him, they/them]
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      3 years ago

      While it might sound like a marketing gimmick to some, Belmonte’s idea is no joke, as one research by Swiss bank Credit Suisse suggests that the LGBT+ market would actually rank as the world’s fourth-largest economy, just behind Japan and ahead of Germany when it comes to purchasing power.

      :marx-joker:

      • Tervell [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        the idea is no joke, as proven by this very exhaustive body of research, consisting of... one study... by some :swiss-cool: nerds

      • Lil_Revolitionary [she/her,they/them]
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        3 years ago

        Is this implying the existence of a gay ethnostate

        Why on earth would lgbt people have their own separate currency, seems really inconvenient when living in majority straight countries (all of them, sadly)

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      "Gay people are all rich TV hosts and fashion gurus who live in upscale Manhattan condos, right?"