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Abrupt Enrichment II

“Sometimes people try to be overly creative,” says spokesman Kyle Boyd of the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles. The agency has to keep a careful eye so that people don’t successfully get “offensive” words on their personalized license plates. For instance, in the past year it processed 39,960 applications, and among those it rejected “8oo8ies” (too much like “boobies”), “FU IRS” (a slur against the federal tax agency, one of many involving “FU”), “several attempts” at including “666”, and multiple attempts to do various iterations of “blockchain” (such as “blokchn”, “btcbkch”, and “btcblch”), which are also marked “offensive.” Why? “That’s a good question,” Boyd said. “I imagine there’s a reason behind it.” (RC/Denver Post) ...Because none of the review panel members bought bitcoin when it was $40.