Hawk Tuah Girl's Crypto Coin Launches And Crashes Within Three Hours
The memecoin has already lost around 90 percent of its value
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The blockchain is going to destroy everything
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How did you manage to make a link that's not even clickable?
...Ah, you pasted the same thing for the URL and the text, is how.
So, something interesting happened since this story broke. I happened to catch another report on it on TV, and they described the victim as a "crypto investor", whereas the MSN article uses it to describe the perpetrator. Now, it's definitely true that the victim is a crypto investor; that's why he had crypto to steal. But it's such an interesting shift in wording that I went back to make sure I hadn't done that thing I always do where I manage to horribly misread something. The original article doesn't state how rich the perpetrator is, but it does say this: "The victim was held in a luxury six-story Prince Street townhouse known for loud partying, according to neighbors who spoke with NBC New York." Also how freaking rich are you that you decide to give your victim cocaine to smoke as a means of torture? At the same time, how rich must the victim be that this was worth doing?
The more I dig into this, the more fascinating it becomes. This is the sort of low-level thuggery I generally don't associate with people at this wealth level, unless they're involved in organized crime. It makes me wonder if we'd start seeing incidents like this a lot more if we ever actually did ban crypto outright, or if the banned substance has to be something with intrinsic value to be a thriving underground business.
The more I dig into this, the more fascinating it becomes. This is the sort of low-level thuggery I generally don't associate with people at this wealth level, unless they're involved in organized crime. It makes me wonder if we'd start seeing incidents like this a lot more if we ever actually did ban crypto outright, or if the banned substance has to be something with intrinsic value to be a thriving underground business.