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Kraken criticized for Dave Portnoy sponsorship after token pump and dumps

By Editorial Board Published February 19, 2025 3 Min Read
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Kraken criticized for Dave Portnoy sponsorship after token pump and dumps

Crypto alternate Kraken is underneath fireplace for letting controversial Barstool Sports activities founder Dave Portnoy “shit on its reputation” after he launched plenty of memecoins that every one crashed over 99%.

All through February, Portnoy has promoted plenty of cash which have rocketed, crashed, and made hundreds of {dollars} within the course of. Amongst these is a token with the ticker JAILSTOOL, which he’s now dedicated to holding after beforehand claiming to have offered all of it by chance whereas utilizing the bathroom.

He’s at present getting flak for launching the tokens GREED and GREED 2. Lookonchain notes that he held 35.79% of the GREED provide and offered it in a single transaction, inflicting it to crash 99%. He reportedly remodeled $250,000.

Customers on X declare Portnoy “is taking a giant shit on Kraken’s reputation and they’re just sitting there doing nothing.”

So in 2 weeks Dave Portnoy:

Conducts ~15 pump and dumps on his viewers.Get insider data on a coin.Will get despatched hundreds of thousands of tokens without cost.Loses 5m on the coin.Will get refunded the 5m.

AND THEN LAUNCHES A TOKEN AND DOES A FSH WITHIN AN HOUR.

Cease supporting this ‘man’.

— Daring (@boldleonidas) February 18, 2025

Crypto sleuth ZachXBT additionally agreed that Portnoy’s habits isn’t a very good search for Kraken. He stated, “To launch multiple memecoins, saying you are not going to sell, and then selling right after is worse than what CT native influencers like CryptoGodJohn or SZ ever did.”

Portnoy defends his memecoin pump and dumps

On a Kraken-sponsored livestream on Wednesday, Portnoy claimed that individuals are “cashing out left and right,” however not him. He stated, “All you internet sleuths get on my wallets, it’s all connected to Kraken.”

He provides that he may’ve made one other $200,000 on GREED 2 and that, “The only thing that drives me nuts about this world is the crying.”

In response to Lookonchain’s evaluation of GREED and GREED 2, he stated, “I let it drop 75% before cashing out. Lots of people made money. I took the profits and poured it into #jailstool which I can’t touch.”

He signed off with, “I didn’t make a dime on it. Some people won. Some lost. Only the losers keep bitching.” 

Protos has reached out to Kraken for touch upon Portnoy’s memecoin launches. 

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