Okay I think I've found some insane
@cobie lore which has never been done before and paired with COINx, the company Cobie now works for.
Maxcoin (ticker
$Max) was a 2014 Bitcoin fork built by Cobie and fronted by TV host Max Keiser.
This was arguably the first celebrity coin, seven years before memecoins were a thing.
Keiser mined the genesis block live on his show, it hit $3.11 and an $8.5M market cap by Valentine's Day, then nobody used it and it lost 99.8% in the 2015 bear market.
Cobie went back to a normie fintech job for five years, returned in 2020, 1,000x'd on early Lido, co-founded UpOnly and built Echo, which Coinbase bought in 2025 — so Maxcoin is the "first coin went to zero on TV, still made it" origin story and now has the chance to be paired with COINx.
In 2014, Cobie and a friend launched Maxcoin
A coin named after Max Keiser (now BTC advisor to president of El Salvador btw).
It was one of the first celebrity coins before memecoins were even a thing (well, except DOGE)
But it didn't last long...
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