You’re underestimating how easy it is to find a few thousand lunatics on the internet.
It is possible to launder money in crypto (using a mixer like Tornado) but it’s not possible to conceal that what you’re engaged in is money laundering. The blockchain is too public.
Frankly this project had fail written all over it and I’m astounded that the floor price made it this high but I’ll be an order of magnitude more astounded if it doesn’t collapse within a few weeks.
Dogecoin which was created as a joke still has a 10 billion dollar market cap. Trump has enough idiot followers to keep these NFTs going up in price for a long time. All you need is getting them in the hands off people that won’t sell them, won’t know how to trade them or don’t even know how to acces them and do some fake trading on the remaining ones.
There has to be some massive grifting opportunity selling fake Trump NFTs, right?
if this is saying that one address owns 900+ out of 1,000, and it’s the address that minted them, seems like it’s more money-laundering than grifting…
https://etherscan.io/token/0x4ca8122ea8757fccf5d3125fcf17ec306df79332#balances
I’m partly guessing, but the website says there are 45000 total and 44000 of them were sold through the website. I think the contract you’re looking at might be for the 1000 that were held back, and this contract (on polygon) is for the ones that are in circulation:
https://polygonscan.com/token/0x24a11e702cd90f034ea44faf1e180c0c654ac5d9#balances
I think this shows the first 1000 tokens were minted to the same address, then the next largest holder has 329.
Edit: It’s also possible that your contract is a fake, assuming this is the right collection:
https://opensea.io/collection/trump-digital-trading-cards
Wiper’s is a fake, its the wrong blockchain. So yes, it looks like someone is scamming people. I think the 1000 held back in the real contract is coincidental. It’s not uncommon for NFT projects to hold some tokens back to use in giveaways and stuff like that.
I feel like there is money in making a fake DeSantis NFT and instigating some sort of proxy war where people try to boost the value of one or the other.
https://twitter.com/funghibull/status/1604283375598317568
Approx forty four thousand United States dollars.
Well I’m shocked.
So here is what happened:
Trump: How is the NFT thing coming?
Guy: Here are the artwork sketches; I still have to buy the pictures though.
Trump: Why, you already have them on your computer?
Guy: Well, they are stock photos, and there are still watermarks on them…
Trump: Can’t you remove them? Barron removed Eric from a photo for me, they call it “shopping”! Can’t you do that?
Guy: Well…
Trump: How much do they cost?
Guy: Altogether maybe a couple of thousand, tops?
Trump: Shop it! We don’t buy photo-stocks! Who ever heard of that?
Scrolled through the comments and couldn’t stop laughing at this one
https://twitter.com/todd19681024/status/1604311311529148416?s=61&t=duTDRwS3Oz2sQCxJ7FqabA
The only regulalrly visable Trump paraphernalia in my neighborhood has been a Trump emblazoned US flag flying over a mechanics garage a few blocks away. It has been there for at least 4 years, but I noticed this morning that it has finally been removed. No replacement either.
I don’t think DeSantis flags are for sale yet.
I’ve definitely seen them.
They looked like the Trump ones and said “Desantis 2024: Make America Florida”
Someone better tell TrollyWantACracker’s mechanic.
Yeah, but will get have to give up his NFTs?
Well today’s events don’t hurt my bet and some might say it helps