As God Is My Witness 1 Idea Turkey's Could Fly

I look strangely drawn to scams this year—I hateful to a greater extent than thus than usual—and if yous throw inwards Mount Everest yous direct maintain my attention.
From FT Alphaville:

The ICO behind the tragic Everest stunt is directly “airdropping” tokens from rockets

Remember ASKfm, the Ukraine-based social network that was encouraging people to climb Mount Everest inwards search of crypto tokens, spell non telling them that a human being who was guiding the climb, Lam Babu Sherpa, had died on the descent?
Unbelievably, nosotros received an electronic mail alongside the next plain of report line on Sunday:

ASKfm kicks off a novel stunt - this fourth dimension without killing a sherpa

There is, truly, no shame inwards crypto publicity.

ASKfm's PR illustration told us they idea the electronic mail championship mightiness “grab [our] attention” which, nosotros must say, it did.
Then nosotros got to the torso of the electronic mail (emphasis theirs):

ASKfm's airdrop is quite literal equally the ASQ Protocol - piece of job of the ASKfm network - has taken its token into the troposphere alongside its around recent airdrop for users as well as the wider crypto community. 
ASQ has launched a rocket into the skies higher upwards Scotland loaded alongside a Ledger Nano southward that was dropped somewhere inwards the countryside. The launch vehicle, operated past times Edinburgh-based infinite technology scientific discipline theatre Skyrora, reached Mach 1.45 as well as a maximum height of over vi kilometers earlier unloading its precious cargo into the world. 

That's correct -- ASKfm direct maintain in 1 trial once again gone for the making-a-metaphor-literal promo stunt.

The thinking behind burying the tokens at the travel past times of Everest was that they would as well as thus endure at “the closest starting quest to accomplish the moon” -- a reference to the “to the moon” rallying outcry of crypto HODLers worldwide....

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The headline is from a USA tv demo pop inwards the 1980's, "WKRP inwards Cinncinnatti" which about of our octo- as well as nona-genarian readers may recall. This brusque clip has 1 of the ameliorate pop homages to the Hindenburg disaster, non that their are all that many, exactly something Alphaville besides brought upwards inwards yesterday's "Beware the Hindenburg Omen?".

If interested run into besides Saturday's "A scam on the roof of the world".