A cryptographically secure method for achieving distributed consensus on the ownership of nothing in particular.
We, the creators of POG, declare the following truths to be self-evident
Proof of Goat represents a pioneering implementation of distributed ledger technology, utilizing cryptographic hash functions and elliptic curve digital signatures to achieve what is, fundamentally, a very sophisticated way of subtracting numbers from one address and adding them to another. Built on Ethereum's infrastructure, each transaction is as mathematically secure as it is economically questionable.
The protocol leverages the Ethereum Virtual Machine—a revolutionary computer that performs calculations at roughly the speed of manually updating a ledger, but in a decentralized fashion. Through the elegant simplicity of the ERC-20 standard, we've achieved feature parity with an Excel spreadsheet, with the added innovation of requiring global consensus from a network collectively worth billions of dollars.
We do not apologize for creating another ERC-20 token. We celebrate it. In a world drowning in false utility, POG's complete lack of purpose is its greatest strength. When every project claims to be revolutionary, true revolution is admitting you're just numbers in a distributed database—expensive, slow, immutable numbers, but numbers nonetheless.
The profound innovation of POG lies in recognizing that we have created scarcity from abundance, complexity from simplicity, and expense from efficiency. Every transaction is permanently etched into Ethereum's history, ensuring future generations can marvel at the computational resources we dedicated to tracking ownership of a goat-themed abstraction. This massive infrastructure dedication represents either humanity's greatest achievement or its most elaborate practical joke—we're not entirely sure which.
Welcome to the future of finance.