Vitalik’s Joke Prompts A Real Cryptocurrency

Someone should make a project called "THE Protocol," Vitalik had tweeted last week.

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So that their shills can say "Look, soandso mentioned THE!" pretty much any time anyone says anything, Vitalik joked.

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Unbeknownst to him, someone took the joke literally and created a cryptocurrency.

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Ethereum founder today tweeted “What I have done” revealing how people are commenting about THE token below his tweets.

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Vitalik’s tweet sent the newly created coin’s market cap to $18.4M from below $5,000 a few days ago.

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It has become a trend to launch meme coins based on the jokes by influential personalities.

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