Coinbase Legal Director Apologizes For Controversial PEPE Reports
Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, tweeted that they misrepresented PEPE and apologized to the community.
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Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, tweeted that they misrepresented PEPE and apologized to the community.
Deep-pocketed crypto investors are scooping up huge amounts of Pepe (PEPE) after the memecoin's price plummeted. Blockchain tracker Lookonchain spotted three crypto whales purchasing more than two trillion Pepe coins combined for over $4 million. “Three whales started to buy PEPE after the price dropped. 0x50C1 withdrew 1.4 trillion PEPE ($2.
Paul Grewal, Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer, issued an apology to Pepecoin investors on Thursday. This followed a wave of indignation and threats of boycott against the company for its handling of the relationship between the meme token ‘Pepecoin' and the controversial cartoon meme Pepe the Frog, linked to alt-right hate symbolism.
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Justin Sun, the vocal crypto supporter and co-founder of Tron and chief executive officer (CEO) of BitTorrent, says he will begin actively trading meme coins like PEPE. Justin Sun Eying Meme Coins In a tweet on May 11, Sun, known for being a crypto whale, actively holding and transferring colossal sums of coins in the past, said he would begin actively trading meme coins and promising projects straight from his public cryptocurrency address.
The success and popularity of Pepe Coin (PEPE) has seen it referred to as the Dogecoin of this cycle. This is no surprise given that the cryptocurrency ran from a market cap of less than $30,000 to over $1.2 billion in less than one month.
Since the unprecedented rise of Bitcoin and accompanying cryptocurrencies, we've witnessed the rise of various trends, meme coins of the most renowned. Ideally, meme coins are depicted by animated or comical memes with support from millions of enthusiasts globally.
A widely followed trader who called the November 2022 Bitcoin (BTC) bottom is warning one memecoin is going to implode after putting up huge gains. Pseudonymous trader DonAlt tells his 484,600 Twitter followers that the Dogecoin (DOGE) and Shiba Inu (SHIB) rival Pepe (PEPE) is going to eventually breakdown to zero.
Cryptocurrency trading platform Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: COIN) faced backlash Wednesday for an email it sent about meme coins, specifically PEPE Coin (CRYPTO: PEPE), one of the fastest-rising coins to reach $1 billion in value. The email highlighted the debate over the Pepe the Frog meme behind the coin, but the coin's supporters say Coinbase failed to balance its commentary on Pepe the Frog's origins.
Paul Grewal said Coinbase was attempting “to provide a fact-based picture of a trending topic” to its users when saying Pepe "has been co-opted as a hate symbol" by certain groups.
Coinbase's newsletter was met by an online backlash.
As the popularity of the Pepe memecoin continues to grow, scammers have taken notice, leading to a significant increase in fraudulent activity within the crypto space. PeckShield, a blockchain security firm, has reported that in just the last three days, there have been at least ten memecoin scams.
"We are sorry" Coinbase says to the memecoin community after PEPE was labelled a hate symbol in a newsletter.
PEPE Price Analysis: The PEPE coin has been in a correction phase for nearly a week and witnessed a significant loss during the period. From the All-Time High of $0.00000449, the coin price witnessed a 68.5% loss to reach the current price of $0.00000231.
Shareholders in Coinbase appear to be paying the price for an upset Pepe community, following some comments in a newsletter.
PEPE token has dropped 63% since last week, when it reached a $1.8 billion market capitalization after a staggering rally.
Crypto News: Paul Grewal, the chief legal officer of Coinbase (COIN), has issued an apology late Thursday noon for a company newsletter that outlined the Frog meme — which acts as the foundation for the PEPE cryptocurrency — as a hate symbol used by “alt-rights group”. Coinbase Responds To Controversy At the time of this
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Coinbase, one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges, issued an apology yesterday following a storm of controversy over its portrayal of the Pepe (PEPE) meme token.
The meme-based token pepe (PEPE) has experienced a 14.9% decline against the U.S. dollar over the last 24 hours, continuing its downward trend from the last five days. Thus far, PEPE has seen a 60% drop in value from its all-time high on May 5.
The move comes after the hashtag trended on Twitter, as PEPE holders bristled over Coinbase's description of Pepe's past alt-right history.
The crypto exchange set off a kerfuffle by describing the Pepe the Frog meme as having been co-opted as a hate symbol by alt-right groups.
Coinbase has come out with an apology for its recent newsletter suggesting Pepe the Frog was a “hate symbol.”
