[XMPPwocky]

I think your pitch would be significantly stronger if the resources you linked didn't largely revolve around "What if Snoop Dogg had his own currency?"

I'm not ... completely unable to be persuaded that there are use cases for cryptocurrency. But "Ashton Kutcher should have Aston Kutchercoin, and develop some sort of referral-based pyramid-shaped scheme with it for his fans" is... what is that?

[EGreg]

That's...

1) A way to fill unsold seats at venues, and always have sold-out events

2) A way to reward his members for spreading his message and bringing more people

3) A way to turn his audience into an army of promoters

4) A way to be independent of banks, and accept global payments

5) A way to have a global online movement that becomes bigger than Ashton Kutcher himself... having subcommunities be empowered to get together and form their own meetups, see it happen around the world, if they get large then Ashton and his crew can come and do a rock concert there

It's great for political campaigns and many movements as well. We did it for Yang's 2020 campaign for example, with "Yang Gangs", that was very early days in 2020

[habinero]

Ok, I'll bite. I read this and my first reactions are:

1. How?

2. Reward them with what?

3. Fans are already promoters.

4. Why is this a good thing?

5. This is just describing fandom, which already exists?

[TeaBrain]

Point 2 is the basis for a pyramid scheme.

[miunau]

Which one of those five have actually happened in reality, and to what extent?

"The American Conservative further stated that a contingent of Yang's digital followers were only backing him for "a fresh platform for surreal and cynical humor" and that Yang had to denounce part of and distance himself from the movement, which largely stemmed from digital supporters of the Trump 2016 campaign.[85]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Yang_2020_presidential_...