Kanye West Shut Down the Digital Currency Coinye

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Kanye West was so unhappy that someone had named their digital currency Coinye West that he sued them for the pun-tastic name.

Proving yet again that Kanye West has no sense of humor about anything.

After filing his suit yesterday (Jan. 14), the anonymous group shut down their website and all plans to produce the digital money, writing to visitors, "COINYE IS DEAD. You win, Kanye."

As the suit alleged, "With each day that passes, Mr. West's reputation is irreparably harmed. ... Consumers are likely to mistakenly believe that Mr. West is the source of these digital coins."

Oh how wrong they were when the creators told Vice magazine, "I think he's gonna love that there's a CURRENCY named in his honor. We don't want to pay him off to name check us, but it'd be sick if he does so."

After receiving a cease and desist letter from West's lawyer on Jan. 6, the developers changed the name from Coinye West to merely Coinye, telling the Wall Street Journal, "We want to release this to the public before the man can try to crush it.... They'll still come after us, but that's OK."

Oh what might have been. Thanks a lot Kanye.

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