Pop Star Akon Launches His Own Cryptocurrency

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Not The First Unique Crypto

While many investors have at least heard of bitcoin, ethereum and some of the other large digital currencies, the alt-coin space is populated by over 1,500 tokens, leaving plenty of room for some unique and obscure concepts.

Coins such as Dogecoin, PotCoin and TrumpCoin are among the more unique offerings on the market. Akon is not the first singer to try his hand at cryptocurrencies. Kanye West introduced Coinye four years ago, but that coin has since disappeared.

Akon “admitted that his technical knowledge of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology is limited, saying, ‘I come with the concepts and let the geeks figure it out,” reports the Independent.

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