A Deeper Look Into The Pirate Bay’s Mysterious ‘Piratetoken’ Soft Launch
In mid-May, the popular and perhaps the largest torrent tracker on the internet, The Pirate Bay, mysteriously revealed a new cryptocurrency called piratetoken (TPB). The token has seen a 20% gain in 30 days and following the quiet launch, the torrent tracker’s website explained that the new piratetoken is a soft launch for a myriad of ideas. The Mischievous Torrent Tracking Website Launches a BSC Token via Pancakeswap It seems The Pirate Bay is utilizing the Binance Smart Chain (BSC) with a new token called piratetoken (TPB). The Pirate Bay is a web portal that hosts an online index....
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