Pharma-bro Shkreli claims he helped launch Trump crypto coin with Barron, now worth $0.0004 after mysterious sell-off

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Originally published at: Pharma-bro Shkreli claims he helped launch Trump crypto coin with Barron, now worth $0.0004 after mysterious sell-off - Boing Boing

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now worth $0.0004

Make It Stop Schitts Creek GIF by CBC

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Say what now?

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Wait, are you trying to tell me that something that had no basis in anything suddenly lost all its value? I find that hard to believe, must be a lib conspiracy.

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The same will probably happen with DJT stock.

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The apple didn’t fall far from the tree, did it? And this is the problem with a completely unregulated business.

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So some suckers people actually didn’t realize this was a pump-and-dump scheme from the start? Isn’t that crypto coin’s primary business model?

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From the headline I can’t tell if Shkreli or the Chrump crypto coin is worth $0.0004.

Either way, they’re both overvalued at that price.

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How many things are going to be blamed on Barron (he’s a great kid) in one day? Trumpcoin? It was Barron. Weird interviews with sketchy bros? Barron’s idea. If daddy is taking advice on how to re-win the presidency from his just-graduated-from-high-school son, then he has no right to resent being called weird.

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I’m not saying that he’s automatically a moronic sociopath just because he’s 45 kid, but what metrics are you basing that comment on?

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Barron is a kid. Does he sneak hundreds to the homeless when his family isn’t looking? Does he catch frogs and pull their limbs off hoping he can do the same to a dog someday? I can’t say have heard either way. This is the first real news I’ve seen about him…it’s not the most promising.

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It’s crypto’s only business model.

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Pretty sure @dabeyc 's “he’s a great kid” and crypto and sketchy interview refs are to Trump calling his son a “great kid” in the same breath he throws him under the bus as the “reason” for various stupid/ignorant decisions he’s made recently.

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Thanks

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My apologies.

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Isn’t Barron supposed to be great at ‘the cyber’?

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The family is cursed.

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I didn’t have Barron on my Game of Trumps bingo card.

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… he takes advice from whoever happens to be in the room with him

If there are multiple people in the room, he listens to whoever is the most physically attractive or whoever praises him the most :roll_eyes:

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