Martin Shkreli Tries To Buy "The Life Of Pablo" for $15 Million in Bitcoin
Martin Shkreli claims to have been swindled of the $15 million he intended to send to Kanye West to own the exclusive rights to the rapper’s new album, “The Life Of Pablo.” The beleaguered American entrepreneur also claims to have spoken with Satoshi Nakamoto. There’s been no link given to the sizeable Bitcoin transaction, which would be publicly verifiable on Bitcoin’s public ledger. What’s quite possible is Shkreli is merely trolling, and none of this ever happened. Shkreli has not publicly spoken on Bitcoin in the past, and originally told West he had arranged for a loan to be made so....
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The notorious Martin Shkreli made a few tweets saying he was supposedly scammed out of $15 million USD in Bitcoin for an exclusive copy of the new Kanye West album. After broadcasting he was going to purchase the record over his Twitter feed, he gave a shout out to Spotify, iTunes, and Pandora Radio to bid for the album at $25 million dollars. Bitcoin....
Martin Shkreli, the so-called “Pharma Bro” who gained notoriety for jacking up the price of the life-saving medicine Daraprim by more than 5,000 percent, is very optimistic about DeFi. The former hedge fund manager and convicted felon discussed cryptocurrency and the decentralized exchange network Uniswap from a federal jail after his release. Shkreli, affectionately dubbed as […]
Following his release from prison, the former hedge fund manager and convicted felon, Martin Shkreli, discussed cryptocurrencies and using the decentralized exchange (dex) platform Uniswap from a federal penitentiary. The so-called ‘Pharma Bro’ further explained that eventually, a crypto entity could dethrone some of the largest banking giants.
Martin Shkreli Talks Defi and Cryptocurrencies
Martin Shkreli has been released from prison early and is now located at a halfway house located in New York. Shkreli’s federal custody will end in September, and as soon....
After fighting in court since 2015, the former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to commit securities fraud and he was forced to pay $7.4 million in fines. One of Shkreli’s prized possessions, an unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album, was seized by the U.S. Marshals and sold for $4 million. Just recently, the public was told that the unreleased record called “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” was sold to the non-fungible token (NFT) collectors syndicate called “Pleasrdao.” The New Owners of ‘Once Upon a....
Martin Shkreli Arrested for Fraud: How the Blockchain Could Have Stopped this AIDS Pill Price Gouger
A few months ago, Turing Pharmaceuticals executive Martin Shkreli spread outrage across the world when he bought the rights to an HIV/AIDS medication and raised the price from $13.50 USD to $750. Shkreli made waves again when he purchased the highly desired, only copy of Wu Tang’s Once Upon a Time in Shaolin for $2 million. Now, might get his just desserts in prison, as the Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested him for securities fraud. According to prosecutors, Shkreli illegally used stock from Retrophin — a company he used to own — to pay off debts. Newsweek reported that his....