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The site now allows anyone to "purchase a patch of pixels in exchange for ether (the native token of the Ethereum blockchain) and fill it with an ad of their choice". With 6,000 pixels sold, the owner has already made $624 at .001 ETH (worth $104) per pixel in 2018, according to Vice.<ref><nowiki>https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwbwa7/goatse-keeps-trying-to-make-money-with-cryptocurrency</nowiki></ref>
The site now allows anyone to "purchase a patch of pixels in exchange for ether (the native token of the Ethereum blockchain) and fill it with an ad of their choice". With 6,000 pixels sold, the owner has already made $624 at .001 ETH (worth $104) per pixel in 2018, according to Vice.<ref><nowiki>https://www.vice.com/en/article/xwbwa7/goatse-keeps-trying-to-make-money-with-cryptocurrency</nowiki></ref>
===In Popular Culture===
===In Popular Culture===
Website owners have used the goatse.cx image to discourage other sites from hotlinking to them. Images on the site, such as hello.jpg, have inspired parodies, mirrors, and tributes. Goatse was only well-known to a small Internet-using "subcultural tribe" who referred to it as a "shared context joke" or "secret membership code." In November 2000, A link to ''giver.html'' was added to "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture" book, one of Oprah Winfrey's online message boards, but was shut down after. In that year, an unknown hacker hacked Yankees.com to display the Goatse image after the Yankees won the World Series in 2000.
Website owners have used the goatse.cx image to discourage other sites from hotlinking to them. Images on the site, such as hello.jpg, have inspired parodies, mirrors, and tributes. Goatse is also a well-know internet meme. In November 2000, A link to ''giver.html'' was added to "Stories of Oprah: The Oprahfication of American Culture" book, one of Oprah Winfrey's online message boards, but was shut down after. In that year, an unknown hacker hacked Yankees.com to display the Goatse image after the Yankees won the World Series in 2000.


In [[wikipedia:Doom 3|''Doom 3'']]'s expansion pack ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil|Resurrection of Evil]]'', there's an arcade game called "Hellanoid" (a parody of arcade video game ''[[wikipedia:Breakout (video game)|Breakout]]'') in Erebus Labs, after beating 1-2 levels in which the player will be greeted by an similar image of Goatse displayed in level 3. However, three arcade games (Sarge's Big Game Hunt, Hellanoid, and Martian Buddy Blaster) were replaced with redundant copies of "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" from the original previous game in the Bethesda re-release ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: BFG Edition|Doom 3: BFG Edition]]''.
In [[wikipedia:Doom 3|''Doom 3'']]'s expansion pack ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: Resurrection of Evil|Resurrection of Evil]]'', there's an arcade game called "Hellanoid" (a parody of arcade video game ''[[wikipedia:Breakout (video game)|Breakout]]'') in Erebus Labs, after beating 1-2 levels in which the player will be greeted by an similar image of Goatse displayed in level 3. However, three arcade games (Sarge's Big Game Hunt, Hellanoid, and Martian Buddy Blaster) were replaced with redundant copies of "Super Turbo Turkey Puncher 3" from the original previous game in the Bethesda re-release ''[[wikipedia:Doom 3: BFG Edition|Doom 3: BFG Edition]]''.
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In April 2011, it was reported that an Audi billboard displayed an image similar to the Goatse image. Pranksters put Goatse on a digital billboard in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2015. Pranksters signed the PGP keys of Facebook and Adrian Lamo with ASCII art of Goatse. One article asks, "''unintentionally hilarious or intentionally evil?''".
In April 2011, it was reported that an Audi billboard displayed an image similar to the Goatse image. Pranksters put Goatse on a digital billboard in Buckhead, Atlanta, Georgia, in May 2015. Pranksters signed the PGP keys of Facebook and Adrian Lamo with ASCII art of Goatse. One article asks, "''unintentionally hilarious or intentionally evil?''".


The [[wikipedia:Gay Nigger Association of America|Gay Nigger Association of America]], the known creators of [[Last Measure]], created a grey-hat hacker group called "Goatse Security", which derives from the site's name, in December 2009. Goatse Security became known for leaking 114,000 unsecured iPad email addresses. The group also used the image as a way to troll, such as adding the image to [[Last Measure]], a supposed "leaked" operating system that booted the image, and more.
The [[wikipedia:Gay Nigger Association of America|Gay Nigger Association of America]], the known creators of [[Last Measure]], created a grey-hat hacker group called "Goatse Security", which derives from the site's name, in December 2009. The group also used the image as a way to troll, such as adding the image to [[Last Measure]], a supposed "leaked" operating system that booted the image, and more.


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