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Does Melania now understand the idiom "a house of cards"? (nt) (Original Post) ret5hd Dec 2022 OP
She doesn't really care, does she? Xipe Totec Dec 2022 #1
Are you kidding? She's in on the grift mercuryblues Dec 2022 #2
Married, filing separately Tetrachloride Dec 2022 #3

mercuryblues

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2. Are you kidding? She's in on the grift
Thu Dec 15, 2022, 04:04 PM
Dec 2022
https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/16/politics/melania-trump-nft/index.html

The NFT is the first digital art to be sold on her newly launched platform, which will release NFTs regularly and is powered by Parler.


Did Melania Trump Buy Her Own NFT?


The post Did Melania Trump Buy Her Own NFT? appeared first on Consequence.

Melania Trump auctioned off an NFT last month for about $170,000, but as Vice reports, the funds for the winning bid came from the same crypto wallet that created the NFT. So did the former First Lady buy her own NFT? And if not, what happened?

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Eventually, a minimum bid of 1,800 SOL was accepted. This is where things get weird.

Solana is a public blockchain, with every transaction linked to an address and no way to delete records. If you follow the money, you’ll find that the cryptocurrency from the winning bid came from a wallet funded by the same address that created the NFT.
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