Trump’s coin sale misses early targets as crypto website crashes
Former U.S. President Donald Trump in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 19, 2020.
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Donald Trump’s new crypto project is off to a rough start.
World Liberty Financial, which aspires to be a sort of crypto bank, launched its token sale on Tuesday, a day after project co-founder Zachary Folkman said “well over 100,000 people” are on the whitelist to invest.
But WLF’s website suffered regular and lengthy outages for much of the morning and early afternoon, contributing to a limited number of sales. Only about 4,300 unique walled addresses hold the token as of Tuesday afternoon, according to blockchain data tracked by Etherscan, representing roughly 4% of the total number of…
