What is Skepticoin?
Skepticoin is a peer-to-peer digital currency that enables you to send money online. It’s also the central community of people who think that’s bullshit.
What’s your problem with Crypto?
Crypto-currencies are fine when viewed as a technological curiosity. If you actually believe that blockchains are the future, that bitcoin is a store of value, or that non-fungible tokens are anything but a scam, things get problematic.
Why a coin then?
Crypto-enthousiasts have an incentive to be loud about crypto-currency: the more other people they convince, the richer they themselves become. Crypto-sceptics are a silent majority: they have no such incentive, so you never hear them. Skepticoin changes that, by making the sceptics invested in a coin themselves.
Goals & motto
- 1 SC equals 1 BTC
- Not “to the moon”, but “into the ground”
Getting Started
Take a look at the getting started section
Get coin
Skepticoin is a “early phase” coin. This means you can probably mine some yourself, as per the instructions above.
If you have ethical objections against this, you can always go to the faucet to get some free coin.
Getting involved
The best places to find other Skeptics are
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The Skepticoin Subreddit (use old.reddit.com to avoid the popup on mobile if you don’t have a Reddit account.)
Contributing:
Some ways you can contribute to this project:
- Spread the news. (Remember the first principle)
- Set up port forwarding on your router
- File a bug if you have one
- Open a PR (but make sure to read CONTRIBUTING.md first