There is a reason why you shouldn't adopt the e-mail address or phone number your cable company _could_provide to you: it ties you closer to their network and i

There is a reason why you shouldn't adopt the e-mail address or phone number your cable company _could_provide to you: it ties you closer to their network and increases your dependence on it. I doubt that Kik's "core competencies" are anywhere near what it would take to launch and maintain a digital currency. So, don't call it a digital currency and call it for what it really is, a "customer loyalty" program where hard money and attention is traded for scrip that never... ever... leaves the "company store."