Joe Unique Thanks YouTuber Matt Wallace for Pushing Tiger King Coin in Name From Jail 

A cryptocurrency YouTuber has expressed shock after Joe Unique, the controversial focus of Netflix’s Tiger King documentary, despatched him a message from jail.

Matt Wallace, a content material creator who makes movies in regards to the Dogecoin cryptocurrency, mentioned earlier this week that he was shopping for the Tiger King Coin cryptocurrency token.

The group behind the cryptocurrency say their token has been endorsed by Unique, whose actual title is Joseph Maldonado-Passage.

Maldonado-Passage is at the moment serving a 22-year jail sentence after being convicted of murder-for-hire and different expenses in January 2020.

Wallace tweeted on Thursday that Maldonado-Passage had despatched him an audio message from jail, and shared the clip.

Within the message, Maldonado-Passage thanks Wallace for his assist and pushes the Tiger King coin.

Wallace mentioned in a tweet alongside the recording: “What on this planet is 2021? Joe Unique from Tiger King simply despatched us this telephone recorded message from jail and he mentioned my title in it.”

Wallace instructed Newsweek he acquired the audio message from Maldonado-Passage’s lawyer. Brad Small, leisure lawyer for Maldonado-Passage, confirmed the authenticity of the tweet to Newsweek.

Talking of his assist for the token, Wallace, who has 223,900 Twitter followers and 244,000 YouTube subscribers, mentioned: “I’ve to be actually cautious although as a result of there are lots of people who take heed to me.

“So I spent a whole lot of time attending to know all the info first [before investing]. I’ve talked with the three of them [the Tiger Coin development team] extensively and I do know who they’re. [Maldonado-Passage’s] legal professionals additionally know who they’re.”

The coin has risen in recognition in current days and was price round $0.00002 as of round 5:40 a.m. EDT on Thursday, in response to CoinMarketCap. Its buying and selling quantity, a measure of how a lot of the token was traded up to now 24 hours, was up by over 180 % at across the identical time.

Cryptocurrency tokens are infamous for his or her excessive worth volatility, which means they’ll fall in worth as shortly as they rise. Consultants have beforehand warned Newsweek in regards to the dangers and risks related to cryptocurrency tokens. The cryptocurrency market as an entire has had an unsteady couple of months amid an ongoing crackdown on the know-how in China.

It’s unclear who the builders of the Tiger King Coin are. No info on their identities is on the market on the token’s web site, which Investopedia calls a “unhealthy signal” when it comes to the security of a cryptocurrency token.

The Tiger King Coin improvement group instructed Newsweek that “typical funding recommendation lags behind the realities of cryptocurrencies.”

The group mentioned: “The $TKING contract has been audited, the liquidity locked, and a token distribution inspired which ensures no single holder can exploit the coin. We see no must disclose our names when our monitor document speaks for itself.”

Tiger King Coin states on its web site that it goals to “amplify the efforts of Joe’s representatives” and that the group are aiming to launch non-fungible tokens to fund his authorized prices.

The headline of this text has been up to date after Maldonado-Passage’s lawyer verified the voice message. It has additionally been up to date to incorporate remark from the Tiger King Coin improvement group.