Creators: Luke Mitchell and Jordan Fish (better known today as Cobie). Inspiration/promotion: Named after and heavily promoted by Max Keiser.
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In 2014, Max Keiser made the joke.
@cobie + Luke Mitchell turned it into Maxcoin, the only coin Cobie actually helped create.
Genesis was mined live on Episode 555.
12 years later, $MAXCOIN is back on Base.
CA - 0xb200000000000000000000ea7b07966e726b4901
Traced Cobie’s wallet through the UpOnly NFT Brian Armstrong bought before Coinbase acquired Echo, then routed $MAXCOIN creator fees directly to that wallet. through a backend door on base scan.Proof below.
Paired with cbMEGA - Coinbase’s wrapped MEGA, from the same MegaETH ecosystem Echo helped fund/Cobie was an angel investor in MEGA along with Vitalik.
Old lore. New Launch. Cobie finally getting paid from Maxcoin.
NFT Burning proof: etherscan.io/tx/0x8f326fa42c…
Fee routing proof: basescan.org/tx/0x17e67c5225…
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I have “explained” maxcoin like fifty times after randos online to use it as a “dunk”, revealing only that they were not in the market in 2013.
But it is nice that the best anti-cobie fud ppl can come up with is a fair-launch coin, one of the first altcoins to exist, created 12 years ago.
Of course it failed and went to 0, the dev team were 20 year olds in university, Max abandoned it to do a new coin instead, and bitcoin (independently) adopted one of its only technically interesting things.
I got university credit for it though.