The Royal Canadian Mint just announced a new alternative to BitCoin
In the spirit of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof", has anyone verified this?Problems:1) No mention on the Royal Mint website that I can see. News releases seem to normally be on http://www.mint.ca/store/mint/about-the-mint/news-releases-7...2) Whois should probably point to Royal Mint, not this person's house, and not to a hotmail address.Administrative Contact:
Zaykova, Vessela
vessyz@hotmail.comAddress:
131 Camelia Ave, Ottawa, Ontario, K1K 2X5
This is a suburb. Streetview: http://bit.ly/HMFiMB3) Domain is registered through GoDaddy, which IMHO is a bad sign... like having a hotmail address ;)4) Site T&C say the site is operated by ChallengePost.ChallengePost has been listed on techcrunch: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/challengepostChallengePost.com has their domain registered through GoDaddy though, so perhaps I'm wrong about that signal :)5) No mention on the ChallengePost blog at http://blog.challengepost.com/6) Vessela Zaykova does apparently work for the Royal mint though, according to http://ca.linkedin.com/in/vesselaSo - very interesting news, an inadvertent early leak, or very elaborate hoax?Oskar