After this, I kept hunting.

Normally I’m left cold by YouTube cryptocurrency reviews where people literally just read through a coin’s website — and that’s the whole review.

But this one made my day — the dude is reading through the Oyster site, as you do, and appears to malfunction when parsing the word ‘intrinsic’.

I wouldn’t normally make fun, but he hit the upload button.

The verdict

I’m torn on Oyster, in essence. I love the concept. I love the idea of funnelling money from some other place into the pockets of website operators so that we can do what we do, and pay our bills, without adding shitty ads to our beautiful creations.

I half-hope that my negativity above gets sternly corrected and that the Oyster model really can replace the advertising model. It would literally change the face of the internet.

But until corrected, I just don’t think the numbers can back up the concept.

So this week, I’m chucking another $500 into my week 10 sweetheart, Stellar.

Dumb idea of the week

CameraCoin.

This uses the IOTA tangle as a way to make money off your IOT device — specifically, a camera attached to the internet. You might have a webcam pointing out your bedroom window toward the beach, or be a shop owner with a surveillance camera out the front of your building, or have a dashcam on your dash.

CameraCoin lets you make the feeds from these cameras available online. That way, if someone wants to see what the surf is like, or the police want to watch footage of a particular place and time, or some third reason that people may want to sell webcam footage that I haven’t thought of, it can all be done in one handy place.

I just need to make up a reason that this needs to be decentralised and have its own currency.

One last thing

After writing all of the above with the example of coinmarketcap.com, I learned about Live Coin Watch.

It’s mostly the same but you can configure what columns you want, (I’ve never cared about 24hr movement).

And of course, dark mode.