What better way to combine the love of the Japanese for cryptocurrencies and their obsession with young girls in puffy skirts than a jpop girl band singing about private key security and the risks of altcoin trading?
Meet Kasotsuka Shojo - Virtual Currency Girls!
Somehow managing to escape my radar for all things awesome, the Virtual Currency Girls first appeared in mid-January with their debut single The Moon, Cryptocurrencies and Me. The lyrics include gems like: "We are serious holders who are bringing it" and advice to "Be careful about your password! Don't use the same one!" and "Don’t underestimate the market!"
Here is it, if you want to sing along:
Band members wear wrestler-like furry masks with the logos of the coins each "represents"; the original BitCoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Neo (NEO), Mona (MONA), Cardano (ADA), NEM (XEM), and Ripple (XRP). Why isn't Steem there? Good question, I was wondering that too.
The eight member band of girls aged 15-22 was launched by Japanese entertainment company Cinderella Academy to "educate the public about the cryptocurrency world and the benefits of decentralised digital currencies such as Bitcoin". The Telegraph quoted Rara Narase, 18, the group's leader saying: "They (cryptocurrencies) are so convenient, you kind of have to wonder why we didn't have them before. We want everyone to learn more about them."
(Source: Twitter)
The Coincheck Incident
The tickets to concerts, as well as band merchandise are all sold in cryptocurrency, even though the band lost access to the account that pays its salary. The group's account was frozen as a part of a $530 million heist involving the digital currency NEM, but the girls still refused to be paid in fiat. "Our manager offered to pay us in yen, but we declined," Hinano Shirahama, who plays Bitcoin in the band, told Reuters.
It's important to note that the band doesn't encourage people to invest, but rather warns and educates about cryptocurrencies. Unlike certain social media networks that think that banning crypto-related ads is what's going to protect people from fraud.
As always, Japan just does it better.
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Hahaha wtf? This looks funny :D
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חחח אצלנו זה היה יכול להיות רק אם זה בארץ נהדרת
זה התרחיש היחיד שאני רואה שלהקה עושה דבר כזה
כשאסי כהן ואלי פיניש בפנים.
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בינתיים היה לנו רק את "קניתי לך ביטקוין" אבל פה השקיעו ממש
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חחח הכל יותר מושקע כשמדובר בתוצרת חוץ 😜
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שמת לב שיש להם מגיני דוד על המצח מסביב ללוגואים של המטבעות? אילומינטי אחי
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LOL!
They should definitely add Steem! Maybe they'll add that when Bitcoin hardforks into a solo career!
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LOLOLOLOL
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This is too funny @techslut lol! I thought of some other good names. TRON could be a muscular girl, BitShare can be topless (or botomless), DOGECOIN could obviously where a dog costume, KOMODO could wear a kimono (this was a stretch), REDDCOIN could be all red. PACCOIN, Ms. Pac-Man. I could do this all day. Thanks for the great post!
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OMG this is amazing. It was only a matter of time before Japanese culture started something like this and boy is it awesome. Why is #BCC the leader though!? Should be #BTC lolol
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It'd be awesome if they actually had steem accounts and pushed their live through DLIVE
It'd be fucking epic!
Anywho, that is awesome to be dressed up as a different coins and singing and having fun
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LOL, Wow
There should be a budget proposal for a Steem Blockchain education music video
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It is cool. However, I'm not a fan of super sentai or power rangers like presentation. It seems like a parody. I wish they went for a cooler look. Anyway, they are so dedicated. :D
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I wonder how much of this is the girls being genuinely interested in crypto, and how much is a music company capitalizing on the latest trend and putting another batch of girls through the mill. They pretty much follow this formula over and over with everything that comes along.
That doesn't mean I don't want to believe!
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If I had to guess, I would say the K-Pop answer would include Steem, as it much stronger in South Korea. Still, this is absolutely delightful. I am delighted.
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This is hilariously awesome. I love you Japan.
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No Doge and no Steem - for shame!
Excited to see if they intentionally vary their performances based on market valuation fluctuations!
but, for treals, fun write up, @Techslut, the world needs more digital currency groups to catch up to market demand & thank you for helping those outside of Japan to know it!
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hahaha as you said at the end Japans does it better! i really didn't expect this but well it's Japan! As i was reading the post i had the music play in the background :P that was awesome
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Go go go girls!
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"girl band singing about private key security and the risks of altcoin trading?" fantastic news helps get more people adopting cryptocurrencies, send the band some steem so they sing about that too
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Very interesting article. You can do well to check out my blog.
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This song is so cool, posted about it yesterday 😋
Hold your horses, HODL 🚀
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You did? I must follow you now.
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😊
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Love it @techslut
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It is a bit of "crazy" for me...
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Nice post. you should see my share https://steemit.com/trees/@mustitly/20180201t145507192z-post
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Nice song you girls did a great job, thumbs up.
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@techslut
I think steemit girl is buzzy in shooting vedio for dtube😀
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Singing 'bout cryptocurrency.. this is interesting.
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Steem isn't still very popular (at least not as btc or eth), but that's good. It gives us some kind of advantage over those who still belive in btc.
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That's great news! I think it's great that the younger people learn about cryptocurrency througth music because music It's an excellent way to teach because who dosen't learn the lyric of his favorite song? So I'll definitly support this girls!
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nice
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I LOVE IT! I'm jumping up and down! Thank you for sharing this out of this world post! GO CRYPTOS! All the best my Friends! Someone please inform them to add the GREAT STEEM! Warm Wishes! Positive Energy! Great Karma! I'm following and upvoting! Your Friend @extraterrestrial :)
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I just saw the girls band, is the song interesting in the hearing?
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Wow I love it because it's interesting. Lol! 😂
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日本のバンドは本当にユニークでパワフルです。女性か男性か、スタイルから見て、ドレッシングは日本の女性バンドとはまったく異なります。どのようなユニークな特性。私はそれを非常に誇りに思うインドネシアから@junsusukhairi。日本の女性バンドで進歩する
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nice
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This is so wonderfully different.
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Japan.
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Crypto is booming around the world, may soon be fast growing and among older children.
I love that song crypto.
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Well this is just incredible. I'm going out to check out some of their music.
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First, japonese and underage girls...
Second, loved the fact that they don't accept fiat, even if all else fails, they don't want fiat, i'm doing exactly the same thing, until 2020 every penny i have that i don't need to survive is going 100% into buying cryptos
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Why no steem, litecoin and SmartCash there. Steem is the best coin ever, followed by SmartCash while litecoin is an agent for payment.
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(=^ ◡ ^=)
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I just hope the Spice Girls re-form and create a track entitled "Invest in the Bitcoin DB", I imagine Mr Beckhams daily expenditure on staff to clean Beckingham Palace could overnight send my Bitcoin wallet contents back into the positive!
#thealliance
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They must be paid with crypto.
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Someone please call the crypto girls to save the world from a crypto meltdown!!
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