Sure, drugs and cryptocurrency go
together like Reddit users and baseless conspiracy theories, but
here’s a little twist on the relationship. Via Dazed &
Confused, it seems
that Bitcoin branded ecstasy has been making the rounds in
Europe.
Reddit user omnibrain shared a photo of the pills, which he was
introduced to in a club bathroom. “I heard some guy in the restroom
of a club talking about bitcoins,”
wrote omnibrain. “After a short, extremely confusing
conversation, he showed me what he was talking
about…”
Drug review site pillreports.com noted that the
Bitcoin ecstasy tablets have been circulating in Europe
since last year. According to commenters on Reddit, the pills
are a mix of MDMA and caffeine “that have been going around on the
dark nets for a while now” and all “part of the revolution
man.”
Not everyone was excited about the discovery, however. “You
people are incredible,” Reddit user SilverShibe lambasted his
fellow commenters:
“You claim you want to legitimize bitcoin, but this is the type
of crap you up vote? Bitcoin is a BRAND like any other right now.
If you don’t protect your brand image, you’re gonna be worth about
as much as one of those pills pretty soon. This community should be
ashamed.”
Other users suggested the Bitcoin ecstasy was schemed up by Bank
of America and the Federal Reserve or “someone very rich with an
anti-Bitcoin agenda.”
I suppose there is a slippery slope argument to be made: First
you’re taking Bitcoin ecstasy from strangers in a Swiss bathroom,
next you’re in some seedy Finnish motel mining Dogecoin tablets (as
Dazed’s Thomas Gorton writes: “Wow. So drugs. Very fucked”).
Mostly, however, commenters in the Bitcoin subReddit seemed amused
and enthused.
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