Hey Bitcointalk,

We've been working on a project called Memecom, it's a Bitcoin proof-of-stake sidechain with decentralized memes that you can buy and sell shares of.

The beta is live (not using real Bitcoin yet, and the interface is designed for mobile), start trading memes now:
https://memecom.co

You can buy shares of any internet meme by sending Bitcoin to an automated market maker (similar to the Bancor project, or what some people call bonding curves), which puts the BTC in a decentralized pool of reserves. Conversely you can sell shares back to the automated market maker to get BTC. This way, even for small memes there is always liquidity, and it allows speculators to make a profit by investing in the right memes.

As a consequence, a healthy market of speculation around meme popularity ends up curating a list of which memes are popular right now, taking into account all the information the market uses to trade on (e.g. Google trends, Reddit popularity, mentions in traditional media, etc.)

I have some more info about the the pegged sidechain design here: https://github.com/mappum/bitcoin-peg/blob/master/bitcoinPeg.md

This is a very early stage for the project, at the moment you can only trade with fake Bitcoin but I'd like to put this out there to see what people's thoughts are. Thanks.