I went looking for the AI weed vape that gives you Bitcoin for smoking

The crypto weed vape recovered maine connected 4/20, the precocious vacation of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived implicit Slack with the thumbnail of a antheral exhaling a plume of vapor, the words "every deed delivers Bitcoin" emblazoned crossed it. It claimed to beryllium advertizing a instrumentality called Gudtrip, and I thought everything astir it sounded fake.

So I went looking for it. What I yet found, aft weeks of searching, dozens of emails, and a reporting effort that spanned continents, was someway adjacent dumber than I'd imagined.

My archetypal larboard of telephone was Gudtrip's website, which lone made the vape look much similar a prank. The company's statement of the pr …

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