Just Rankin’ Sh!t
The 7 Dumbest Cryptocurrencies, Ranked
They’re real, and they’re (very far from) spectacular
7. Coinye
Yes, it tried to harness the star power of Kanye West with a logo featuring shutter shades-era Ye. Yes, Kanye’s legal team got it shut down almost as soon as it was announced in 2014. No, it’s not even close to the only cryptocurrency seemingly launched just for the pun potential.
6. WhopperCoin
In 2017, Burger King Russia (where else?) issued one billion of these on the Waves crypto platform, promising to give customers one for every ruble they spent at the fast-food chain. When you got enough WhopperCoins — 1,700, or about $23 in U.S. dollars — you could trade them in for an actual Whopper. “Eating Whopper today is a groundwork for financial well-being tomorrow,” a spokesperson said at the time. You’ve gotta be Putin us on, comrade.
5. Nyancoin
Launched the same day as Coinye, Nyancoin tried to harness the power of a meme. (An extremely White meme, we should point out.) Yet somehow, it persists to this day! Now all it needs is a Trick Daddy co-sign, and we might actually fuck with it.
