Piece of Eight is a coin created as an homage to the long-standing internet rivalry between pirates and ninjas, well, the pirate side anyway. Anyone who knows anything about pirates is aware of the term "Pieces of Eight", it was considered as the first world currency and made popular through pirate lore.
This Piece of Eight is decentralized, has no huge pre-mine (2 coins have been mined) and is ASIC resistant.