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<h3 id="scammers-took-advantage-of-market-participants-interest-in-meme-cryptocurrencies-on-bitcoin-pizza-day">Scammers took advantage of market participants’ interest in meme cryptocurrencies on “bitcoin pizza day”</h3>Scammers earned tens of thousands of dollars on “bitcoin pizza day. In doing so, taking advantage of market participants’ interest in meme-based cryptocurrencies. The creators of several holiday-themed tokens absconded with the assets of gullible investors.On May 22, the cryptocurrency community celebrated the 13th anniversary of the first purchase for bitcoins. It happened in 2010, when computer developer Laszlo Heinitz bought two mushroom pizzas for 10 thousand BTC.According to <a href="https://www.dextools.io/app/ru/ether/pairs" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Dextools</a>, the capitalization of tokens BTCPizza, BPizza, PizzaDay and EthPizza. Which were created during the last week, at their peak reached about $150 thousand.The creators of BPizza, after the token reached a capitalization of $100k, imposed a 100% sales tax on the coins. This was done to prevent investors from selling them. Issuer EthPizza disabled token sales when the asset’s capitalization reached nearly $40k.BTCPizza is now labeled as a Honeypot – where fraudsters prescribe in the token’s smart contract the ability to withdraw coins only to certain wallets. PizzaDay plummeted in value to zero after a spike in value followed by a rapid series of sales.<a href="https://crypto-upvotes.com/about-us/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Our experts</a> noted that the desire of investors to buy tokens with no fundamental value. And all this followed a rapid and significant rise in the market capitalization of the meme cryptocurrency Pepe in just a few weeks. Investors are hoping to get lucky, buying tokens that could collapse in value at any moment. And then they complain that they were scammed and media didn’t warn them that it was dangerous. So once again we warn you that you can lose 100% of your investment in such projects.

Scammers made tens of thousand of dollars on bitcoin pizza day

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