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RandySF

(58,899 posts)
Mon Dec 6, 2021, 05:18 PM Dec 2021

'Unvaxxed Sperm' Is Trying to Become the Anti-Vax Bitcoin

If you ask the developers behind a new cryptocurrency called Unvaxxed Sperm if they’re opposed to vaccines, they’ll claim to be unsure.

“We’re not anti-vaccine,” one of the developers called Jason, who would only provide his first name, told VICE News, claiming that the project is “here to ensure the continuity of objective scientific inquiry and the freedom of discourse.”

But moments later, another developer who wouldn’t reveal his identity and simply goes by the name “Fauci,” said: “To a degree, I'd say we are anti-vaccine.”

To be very clear, Unvaxxed Sperm and the people behind it are not anti-vaccine to a degree; they are completely anti-vaccine, baselessly claiming that 90 percent of the population has no need to take a COVID-19 vaccine and advocating that the pandemic can be medicated with alternative remedies like ivermectin, even though the only studies to claim the drug typically prescribed as a horse de-wormer can treat COVID-19 have been retracted.

Unvaxxed Sperm launched just over a week ago and saw explosive growth last Thursday and Friday. However, over the weekend, the price once again plummeted, leaving many in the group’s Telegram channel to question the future of the coin—which trades as “nuBTC”—and whether the whole thing was simply a scam.





https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7nn87/unvaxxed-sperm-coin-spreading-covid-disinformation

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'Unvaxxed Sperm' Is Trying to Become the Anti-Vax Bitcoin (Original Post) RandySF Dec 2021 OP
I'd think vaxxed sperm would be far more costly. Silent3 Dec 2021 #1
Dog snot has more value than the sperm of an anti-vax covidiot. roamer65 Dec 2021 #2
It's just the name of a cryptocurrency, has nothing to do with actual sperm, folks Hugh_Lebowski Dec 2021 #3
The best part is toward the end of the article jmowreader Dec 2021 #4

Silent3

(15,221 posts)
1. I'd think vaxxed sperm would be far more costly.
Mon Dec 6, 2021, 05:20 PM
Dec 2021

Think of how much time that would take with so, so many very tiny needles!

roamer65

(36,745 posts)
2. Dog snot has more value than the sperm of an anti-vax covidiot.
Mon Dec 6, 2021, 05:33 PM
Dec 2021

Too bad the virus didn’t have a higher death rate.

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
4. The best part is toward the end of the article
Mon Dec 6, 2021, 07:04 PM
Dec 2021

It seems “Fauci” has been hospitalized with coronavirus.

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