December 15, 2018 12:14 AM
Roger Ver can’t catch a break, bitcoin is an ancient piece of music, and Honey Nut Cheerios has the perfect crypto winter solution.
It's Friday, December 14, everybody! While that might mean it's the tenth anniversary[1] of President George W. Bush having two shoes thrown at him, it also means ETHNews is here with Having A Gas, a new weekly segment to bring you a short roundup of a few lighter stories in crypto and blockchain news.
Not Your Usual Sunday Funnies
"The Treasures of Mann O'Taur," an interactive Ethereum-based web comic where readers can collect ERC-721 mythical artefact tokens and use them to win prizes, published its newest episode, Someone Will Die in the End[2].
Obviously, the title spoils quite a bit, so we'll try to keep the rest of this spoiler free for those who want to enjoy the comic for themselves. Let's just say Roger Ver, or as the comic calls him, "Bitcoin Judas," has some interesting plans for Satan, represented in the comic by John McAfee, and how he'll steal Mass Adoption from those looking to use it for good and not evil.
Hold Me Closer Tiny Token
Recently, Ari Paul, chief information officer of cryptocurrency investment firm BlockTower Capital, tweeted[3] a question asking what musician or musical group would represent each cryptocurrency. Paul got the game started, claiming[4] Ethereum is composer[5] John Williams, "a prolific crowd pleaser." Some responses linked bitcoin to the likes of Led Zeppelin and Nickelback, and others mistakenly referred to The Monkees as The Monkeys (p.s. I'm a pedant).
Of all the fun comparisons that can be drawn – Dogecoin is Weird Al, TRON is
