Crypto Calamity: Ross Ulbricht’s Wallet Loses $12M in Memecoin Mishap ๐Ÿค‘๐Ÿ’ธ

In a twist of fate that would make even the Patrician of Ankh-Morpork chuckle, the crypto wallets tied to the recently pardoned Silk Road creator, Ross Ulbricht, have suffered a colossal blunder, losing a staggering $12 million in a memecoin trading fiasco. ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

According to the blockchain analytics firm Arkham Intelligence, Ulbricht, or someone operating his wallets, “accidentally nuked the price” of a fan-made memecoin called ROSS, created after his release from prison. The culprit? A classic case of liquidity pool mismanagement, where Ulbricht “initialized the liquidity pool at the wrong price,” allowing a crafty MEV bot to swoop in and snatch up the tokens for a tidy profit. ๐Ÿ’ธ

But the misadventures didn’t stop there! Ulbricht, or his wallet operator, made the same mistake again, this time losing a whopping $10.5 million, or 35% of the ROSS token supply. ๐Ÿคฏ As Arkham put it, “Ross tried to add single-sided liquidity to sell the coins off passively, but accidentally created a pool with Raydium CPMM, Constant-Product Market Maker, instead of CLMM Concentrated Liquidity Market Maker.” ๐Ÿคฆโ€โ™‚๏ธ

The result? The ROSS token crashed a staggering 90%, and the MEV bot made off with over $600,000 in profits. ๐Ÿ’ฐ But fear not, dear readers, for the token is now trading at a mere 1 cent, up a whopping 700% in the last day. ๐Ÿš€

As if the crypto gods weren’t done with their mischievous antics, Arkham revealed that the wallet addresses flagged for this debacle are actually listed for donation on FreeRoss.org, a campaign run by Ulbricht’s family to free him from prison. ๐Ÿคฏ You can’t make this stuff up, folks!

So, in the end, the once-mighty Silk Road creator finds himself in a rather peculiar predicament, with his crypto wallets losing a small fortune in a memecoin mishap that would make even the Librarian at the Unseen University scratch his head. ๐Ÿ™ˆ Ah, the perils of the digital realm โ€“ where even the most seasoned crypto enthusiasts can fall victim to the whims of the market. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

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2025-01-31 09:04