Tiger King Transitions to Cryptocurrency, Proceeds Will Go Towards ‘Joe Unique’ Protection Fund 

“Tiger King” Joe Unique has jumped into cryptocurrency, asserting that Tiger King crypto cash are actually out there for buy on his web site.

Unique, whose actual title is Joseph Maldonado-Passage, tweeted on Wednesday that his “official Tiger King cash,” named $TKING, will likely be used to assist him “repair kids’s smiles/faces, combat justice and jail reform, and save animals within the wild.”

His web site claims that “$TKING will see mainstream advertising publicity like no different coin earlier than it.”

The funds from the cash will go towards a protection fund for his authorized charges. Maldonado-Passage is serving a 22-year jail sentence after being convicted in 2019 of hiring somebody to kill Carole Baskin, his nemesis within the massive cat advocate trade.

He’s additionally serving time for 17 federal wildlife violations, which included killing a few of the tigers he saved at his Higher Wynnewood Unique Animal Park in Oklahoma.

Maldonado-Passage’s cryptocurrency announcement comes virtually a month after Baskin’s personal cryptocurrency was launched. The massive cat advocate launched her digital forex, $CAT, in early Could.

Baskin wrote on her web site, “Our new $CAT coin is just not a forex for funding, however relatively is a purr-ency of our followers to indicate their love for the cats and to reap the advantages of being our most ahead pondering companions in making a world the place all wild cats reside free.”

CNN reported that Large Cat Rescue, Baskin’s nonprofit, plans to launch within the coming weeks non-fungible tokens that can enable digital visits with the cats in her sanctuary.

The story of the Tiger King and the feud between Maldonado-Passage and Baskin drew nationwide fascination in March 2020 when the Netflix documentary Tiger King was launched.

Maldonado-Passage’s web site asserting $TKING mentioned: “We’ll by no means let Carole win! Discover your internal Tiger as Joe, $TKING, and his authorized crew stage the comeback of the century! We’ll land the primary tiger on the moon to free Joe! Group Joe for the win!”

After being sentenced, Maldonado-Passage requested for a presidential pardon a number of occasions, in hopes that President Donald Trump would launch him earlier than leaving workplace in January.

He despatched Trump a letter final September that mentioned, “If I’ve ever appeared as much as anybody it will be you. Not as a result of I want you to save lots of my life, however since you stand for what you imagine it doesn’t matter what anybody thinks.”

When he didn’t obtain the pardon, he tweeted, “I used to be too harmless and too GAY to deserve a Pardon from Trump.”

Final week he formally requested one other presidential pardon, from President Joe Biden, after saying he’s exhibiting indicators of most cancers.

Maldonado-Passage mentioned he desires the world to assist his lawyer, John Phillips, in getting Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and Lawyer Basic Merrick Garland to grant him his pardon “so I can go residence and get correct medical care and correct meals.”

Newsweek reached out to Phillips for remark however didn’t hear again in time for publication.