Today in Politics, Bulletin 125. 5/6/25 764,000 people lost money on Trump's crypto scam
Ron Filipkowski
764,000 people lost money on Trumps crypto scam according to data provided by analytics firm Chainalysis to CNBC: Most of the wallets that lost money held smaller amounts of the token, according to the firms on-chain analysis. Crypto wallets are accounts that store the keys you need to access and use your cryptocurrency holdings.
And guess what, Trump and the con artists and grifters in his orbit made a killing off the rubes: Chainalysis said that while around 2 million wallets have bought into the token, 58 wallets made more than $10 million apiece, totaling roughly $1.1 billion in gains.
58 people made millions. 764,000 lost money. MAGA!
Melania Trump also got in on the action. Financial Times reported that that a small handful of unknown individuals made millions in a few days after Melania announced her crypto scam the day before the inauguration. 24 accounts bought $2.6 million in tokens 2 minutes before they went live, then 81% of their purchases were sold within 12 hours at windfall profits. One person bought $681,000 of Melania crypto 64 seconds before the existence of the project was made public and sold it for $39 million hours later.
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