{"id":18911,"date":"2024-11-26T13:01:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T11:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/owner-of-euthanised-squirrel-accuses-crypto-community-of-profiteering-and-launches-own-token\/"},"modified":"2024-11-26T13:01:27","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T11:01:27","slug":"owner-of-euthanised-squirrel-accuses-crypto-community-of-profiteering-and-launches-own-token","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/owner-of-euthanised-squirrel-accuses-crypto-community-of-profiteering-and-launches-own-token\/","title":{"rendered":"Owner of Euthanised Squirrel Accuses Crypto Community of Profiteering and Launches Own Token"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a squirrel named Peanut and a raccoon named Fred, Mark Longo, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Squirrel_Dad12\/status\/1860856754327740508\">launched<\/a> a token on Solana called &#8220;Justice for Peanut and Fred&#8221; (JUSTICE) to honour the memory of his pets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The government will not get away with this. Justice will prevail. And not just for Fred and Peanut. We will show the world that crossing boundaries is not acceptable,&#8221; he stated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The owner of the euthanised animals also accused the crypto community of profiteering from his trauma.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;The fact that people want to make money off this is nothing but despicable,&#8221; he declared.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Members of the Peanut the Squirrel (PNUT) meme coin community protested, reminding of Longo&#8217;s ~$50,000 donation, which he immediately sold.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">so let me recap this: <\/p>\n<p>1. you took the $50k free money the other project gave to you as a goodwill, and label them as scammers profiting from the injustice of peanut.<br \/>2. you launch your own project profiting from the same injustice of peanut the scammers did?<\/p>\n<p>?<\/p>\n<p>Why did you\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BlackHo0le (@blackho0le) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/blackho0le\/status\/1861025112775954878?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;So let me recap this. 1. You took $50,000 that another project gave you as a goodwill gesture and called them scammers profiting from the injustice towards Peanut. 2. You launch your own project profiting from the same injustice that the scammers did?&#8221; noted a user with the nickname BlackHo0le.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At the time of writing, the market capitalisation of JUSTICE <a href=\"https:\/\/solscan.io\/token\/DGagMywvLG3DwffZHX4eWWE6svnoJpiod3dSNBDwpump\">stands at<\/a> $63 million, with 17,400 token holders. It was issued using the Pump.fun platform.<\/p>\n<p>Peanut the squirrel became popular on social media, amassing over 500,000 followers. On October 30, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation officials searched Longo&#8217;s home, citing laws prohibiting the keeping of wild animals as pets. On November 1, the squirrel and raccoon were euthanised.<\/p>\n<p>The incident sparked public outrage and took on a political hue. Trump supporters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/video\/news\/watch-vance-says-trump-fired-up-about-peanut-the-squirrel\/vi-AA1trV7B?t=2#details\">described<\/a> the situation as &#8220;government overreach.&#8221; Elon Musk also <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1852914164093550795\">criticised<\/a> the authorities&#8217; actions.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in November, an unknown user missed the opportunity to earn over $1.6 million on the PNUT token.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a squirrel named Peanut and a raccoon named Fred, Mark Longo, launched a token on Solana called &#8220;Justice for Peanut and Fred&#8221; (JUSTICE) to honour the memory of his pets. &#8220;The government will not get away with this. Justice will prevail. And not just for Fred and Peanut. We will show the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1161],"class_list":["post-18911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-memes"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"24","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}