Covfefe Craze: Trump’s Typo Gets Own Crypto Token
Donald Trump’s seemingly erroneous covfefe tweet has sent the Internet into overdrive - including the cryptocurrency sphere. As pundits puzzled over the circumstances behind Trump’s mysterious utterance, Core developer Jeff Garzik was among the first to capitalize on the fallout. In response to his challenge to issue an ERC20 token by the name of “covfefe,” such a token was promptly created. Whether an ICO or similar will become available in the future is yet to be seen. Trump is known for his often provocative Twitter posts, yet has now appeared to have deleted the original covfefe....
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