{"id":17659,"date":"2025-02-07T18:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/trumps-meme-coin-sparks-more-than-700-copycats-posing-as-official-crypto\/"},"modified":"2025-02-07T18:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T17:38:17","slug":"trumps-meme-coin-sparks-more-than-700-copycats-posing-as-official-crypto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/trumps-meme-coin-sparks-more-than-700-copycats-posing-as-official-crypto\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s meme coin sparks more than 700 copycats posing as official crypto"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Army of digital imposters uses names associated with president\u2019s family in apparent bid to deceive investors<\/p>\n<p>Despite once calling cryptocurrency \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-57392734\">a scam<\/a>\u201d, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> made a theoretical fortune of billions after launching a self-named and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/31\/trump-cryptocurrency-republicans\">highly controversial meme coin<\/a> immediately before his second inauguration in January.<\/p>\n<p>Now an army of digital imposters is trying to cash in on the president\u2019s name and online presence to make their own crypto killing, according to a report in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/831919a9-47b0-4ac3-bcdd-5154c27d9f9c\">the Financial Times<\/a> that details hundreds of \u201ccopycat and spam coins\u201d uploaded to Trump\u2019s official wallet in cyberspace.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/feb\/07\/trump-meme-coin-crypto-copycats\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/82a72de920581172a64d65d2144f48440c2f6cec\/0_2_2200_1320\/master\/2200.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=094d55681316afff645074ddfea666c4\" title=\"Trump\u2019s meme coin sparks more than 700 copycats posing as official crypto\" \/>Army of digital imposters uses names associated with president\u2019s family in apparent bid to deceive investors<br \/>\nDespite once calling cryptocurrency \u201ca scam\u201d, Donald Trump made a theoretical fortune of billions after launching a self-named and highly controversial meme coin immediately before his second inauguration in January.<br \/>\nNow an army of digital imposters is trying to cash in on the president\u2019s name and online presence to make their own crypto killing, according to a report in the Financial Times that details hundreds of \u201ccopycat and spam coins\u201d uploaded to Trump\u2019s official wallet in cyberspace. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Army of digital imposters uses names associated with president\u2019s family in apparent bid to deceive investors Despite once calling cryptocurrency \u201ca scam\u201d, Donald Trump made a theoretical fortune of billions after launching a self-named and highly controversial meme coin immediately before his second inauguration in January. Now an army of digital imposters is trying to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/07\/trumps-meme-coin-sparks-more-than-700-copycats-posing-as-official-crypto\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump\u2019s meme coin sparks more than 700 copycats posing as official crypto<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}