Thanks to a new website called CoinMD, you can upload a photo of your latest bowel movement to the internet — together with a detailed description of your ongoing troubles — and obtain advice from an anonymous group of people who swear they’re doctors. If you like what you hear, you pay them in bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency. Or not. You can just take the advice for free. That’s what this guy did after uploading a picture of his stool to the new service.
Recently launched — and touted on Reddit — CoinMD combines three extremely hot internet trends: digital currency, crowdsourcing, and online healthcare. It’s a rather clever service — and it’s absolutely frightening. This is yet another reason to remember that, while the internet promises so much, it can also go horribly wrong.
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