The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin
In the spirit of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof", has anyone verified this?<p>Problems:<p>1) No mention on the Royal Mint website that I can see. News releases seem to normally be on <a href="http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/news-releases-700002" rel="nofollow">http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/news-releases-7...</a><p>2) Whois should probably point to Royal Mint, not this person's house, and not to a hotmail address.<p>Administrative Contact:
Zaykova, Vessela
vessyz@hotmail.com<p>Address:
131 Camelia Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1K 2X5
This is a suburb. Streetview: <a href="http://bit.ly/HMFiMB" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/HMFiMB</a><p>3) Domain is registered through GoDaddy, which IMHO is a bad sign... like having a hotmail address ;)<p>4) Site T&C say the site is operated by ChallengePost.<p>ChallengePost has been listed on techcrunch: <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/company/challengepost" rel="nofollow">http://www.crunchbase.com/company/challengepost</a><p>ChallengePost.com has their domain registered through GoDaddy though, so perhaps I'm wrong about that signal :)<p>5) No mention on the ChallengePost blog at <a href="http://blog.challengepost.com/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.challengepost.com/</a><p>6) Vessela Zaykova does apparently work for the Royal mint though, according to <a href="http://ca.linkedin.com/in/vessela" rel="nofollow">http://ca.linkedin.com/in/vessela</a><p>So - very interesting news, an inadvertent early leak, or very elaborate hoax?<p>Oskar