Bitcoin USD Remembering Chuck Norris Coin (CHUCK)
The year is 2014... and as it turns out, when Chuck Norris tells you to cease and desist, you do.
Norris Coin, the Bitcoin alternative (altcoin) was set to hit the Internet at 10pm Eastern Time on January 14. But it appears that Norris Coin is no more.
Ars previously mentioned Norris Coin in a story about the ongoing dispute over Coinye, the Kanye West-inspired altcoin.
We attempted to contact Norris’ representatives for that piece, but they did not respond until this..
“Thank you for bringing to our attention the ‘Norris Coin,’” Jeff Duclos, Norris’ publicist, wrote in an e-mail to Ars.
“This is a completely unauthorized use of Mr. Norris' name and likeness. There is no affiliation. His legal representatives have now intervened and this operation has been shut down.
The operators received a Notice of Infringement from Mr. Norris' attorney. Some communication followed."
Its organizers had touted:
Chuck Norris doesn’t give a fuck about the 10 KnC ASIC miners you stockpile in your parent’s basement.
He’s gonna roundhouse kick you in the face the next time you go buy your XXL Grilled Stuft Burritos from Taco Bell.
SHIT GETS REAL ON JANUARY 14, 2014, 10:00 PM EASTERN TIME.
Norris Coin (NOR) gets dropped into the crypto-economy battlefield to distribute a fair amount of pain, roundhouse kicks, rockets, headache and of course, distributive justice.
Attempts to contact "Guillaume Dumaslap," the Montreal man who apparently owns the norriscoin.org domain name, were not immediately successful.
Thanks to CYRUS FARIVAR former Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica
Norris Coin, the Bitcoin alternative (altcoin) was set to hit the Internet at 10pm Eastern Time on January 14. But it appears that Norris Coin is no more.
Ars previously mentioned Norris Coin in a story about the ongoing dispute over Coinye, the Kanye West-inspired altcoin.
We attempted to contact Norris’ representatives for that piece, but they did not respond until this..
“Thank you for bringing to our attention the ‘Norris Coin,’” Jeff Duclos, Norris’ publicist, wrote in an e-mail to Ars.
“This is a completely unauthorized use of Mr. Norris' name and likeness. There is no affiliation. His legal representatives have now intervened and this operation has been shut down.
The operators received a Notice of Infringement from Mr. Norris' attorney. Some communication followed."
Its organizers had touted:
Chuck Norris doesn’t give a fuck about the 10 KnC ASIC miners you stockpile in your parent’s basement.
He’s gonna roundhouse kick you in the face the next time you go buy your XXL Grilled Stuft Burritos from Taco Bell.
SHIT GETS REAL ON JANUARY 14, 2014, 10:00 PM EASTERN TIME.
Norris Coin (NOR) gets dropped into the crypto-economy battlefield to distribute a fair amount of pain, roundhouse kicks, rockets, headache and of course, distributive justice.
Attempts to contact "Guillaume Dumaslap," the Montreal man who apparently owns the norriscoin.org domain name, were not immediately successful.
Thanks to CYRUS FARIVAR former Senior Tech Policy Reporter at Ars Technica
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