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

A black weed vape next to a weed leaf and a Bitcoin on a trippy background.

The crypto weed vape found me on 4/20, the high holiday of cannabis enthusiasts everywhere. It arrived over Slack with the thumbnail of a man exhaling a plume of vapor, the words "every hit delivers Bitcoin" emblazoned across it. It claimed to be advertising a device called Gudtrip, and I thought everything about it sounded fake.

So I went looking for it. What I eventually found, after weeks of searching, dozens of emails, and a reporting effort that spanned continents, was somehow even dumber than I'd imagined.

An ad for the Gudtrip vape

My first port of call was Gudtrip's website, which only made the vape seem more like a prank. The company's description of the pr …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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