So.. if I found the right website, Akon is creating his own coin, Akoin. From their website[1]: "AKOIN IS THE EXCLUSIVE CURRENCY OF THE AKOIN ECOSYSTEM". Great, another unnecessary coin. I'm not saying that Akon is a bad person, but if he really wanted to help, pretty much every use-case indicated on their website can already be done using BTC and ETH. I'm guessing that some people just proposed this idea to Akon and asked for permission to use his name. Pretty much the same with Manny Pacquiao's PAC token.
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https://www.akoin.io/Agree with you. I was feeling happy as I was reading through the post just when I read the line that Akon has created his coin.
All the happiness was gone because I knew that the coin won't be of any use for obvious reasons. Obviously Akon is a good person and I respect him for what he has done. But he could have simply used the existing coins instead of creating a new coin of no unique usecase.