A digital company founder launches a meme coin and abandons it within an hour?!
Dave Portnoy, the founder of Barstool Sports, launched a new meme coin called GREED, but he sold all of his holdings of the coin after just one hour, causing the value of the coin to collapse by 90%.
Portnoy had criticized the meme coin market in a post on the X platform on February 19, describing it as being entirely based on greed.
He then launched the
#GREED coin as a social experiment that reflects the true nature of the sector.
According to an analysis by
#Lookonchain , Portnoy bought 357.92 million coins, or 35.79% of the total supply, which quickly pushed the market value of the coin to $30 million.
Despite initially insisting he wouldn’t sell, Portnoy dumped his entire holding in a single transaction just an hour later, causing the coin to collapse by 99% to less than $3 million, making a profit of $258,000.
He then launched GREED and currently owns 26.8% of the total supply.
Portnoy later reiterated that he never promised not to sell any coin except JAILSTOOL, another meme coin based on the Solana network.
He had bought 57.16 million JAILSTOOL coins on February 9, then sold them all for $586,
#SOL but then bought more, spending 1000 SOL to get 23 million coins.
- Source: Bitcoin Arabs website, adapted