Hobo Nickels
- Apr 27, 2017
- 1 min read
Skull Hobo Nickel Loyal to the Coil Hobo Nickel Demon Hobo Nickel Cigar Smoking Hobo Nickel Coins on the Brain Hobo Nickel Skull with Hat Hobo Nickel Watch Gears Hobo Nickel Skull Wearing Hat Hobo Nickel Skull Ripping Coin Hobo Nickel
Hobo Nickels are a beautiful art form made from minted nickel coins. Miniature bas relief sculptures were hand carved into the coins. US nickels were a popular medium for this art; their size, thickness, and relative metal softness made for the perfect medium. They remind me of crypto currencies. The idea of taking the concept of money and improving upon it.
I recently listened to the On The Record #5 podcast interviewing Presstab. Presstab is one of the developers for the PIVX coin. He mentions that he worked on the crypto currency HoboNickels. HoboNickels were created with a cloned and customized implementation of the NovaCoin source. NovaCoin is the first fork of PeerCoin. Unfortunately, HoboNickels is pretty much a dead coin. That's too bad, I like the concept of it and it's logo.
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