Making a token is easy. Customization is where it gets tricky.
In discussing cryptocurrency, one of my friends has often exclaimed, "But what does Ethereum look like?!" There's more than a hint of exasperation to his voice. To help answer his question, I took a crack at creating my own token.
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Let's be clear, I am not a programmer. In high school, I signed up for one miserable introductory class. Luckily, I had a good friend who dragged my sorry carcass through that misery. (In the end, we collaborated on a horrendous hangman game. Somehow it impressed the girl I had a crush on, so I considered it a resounding success.)
For the sake of full disclosure, in university, I worked with Stata (a statistical analysis software package) and I became quite adept at Microsoft Excel. And while I've taught myself a little bit of Python here and there, I don't consider my skills to be anywhere near proficient. Altogether, I'd call myself a wannabe-geek. At the end of the day, I prefer watching "Mr. Robot" to sitting in silence in front of a blinking cursor.
So, my brief dalliance with Solidity taught me a few things:
1. Making a token is incredibly easy.
The basic format is available to copy and paste. I decided to name my tokens BatmanTokens (I'm a pretty big fan of Bruce Wayne and Gotham). Just changing up a few parameters (e.g., name, symbol, initialSupply), it's really quite effortless to deploy a contract. With the primers available on the Ethereum Foundation[2] website and the assistance of Google, a moderately computer-literate person could make their own digital currency in under an hour. Good luck with adoption though.
2. The standards for tokens are fairly intuitive.
Does a wallet have sufficient
