Four out of five people who bought into Hunter Biden’s new meme coin saw their investments go up in smoke during the cryptocurrency’s spectacular launch-day collapse on Wednesday — even as one mystery trader turned a roughly $250,000 bet into $1.18 million within minutes, The Post has learned.
An individual trading under a pseudonym spent about $250,000 to acquire 9,124 of Biden’s $LAPTOP tokens before unloading 8,480 of them minutes later for about $1.18 million, according a blockchain analysis by Datavault AI.
That amounted to a gain of roughly $930,000 before transaction costs.
Other traders weren’t nearly as fortunate.
One buyer who plowed roughly $200,000 into the token near its fleeting peak saw the position dwindle to around $2,000 as $LAPTOP came crashing back to earth, according to Datavault’s analysis.
“That’s the tragedy in these coins,” Datavault AI CEO Nathaniel Bradley told The Post while discussing investors who bought $LAPTOP at its eye-popping early prices.
The token briefly shot above $300 during Wednesday’s chaotic debut before plunging to just a few dollars, wiping out more than 99% of its peak price within hours.
“To come out and say that a laptop coin is worth $300 is, in my opinion, fraudulent,” Bradley said.
Bradley characterized the launch as a “classic ‘rug pull.'”
The term describes a crypto scheme in which developers or insiders extract value from a project or abandon it, leaving other holders with sharply devalued tokens.
There has been no finding that Biden or the $LAPTOP project engaged in fraud or a rug-pull scheme, and Datavault’s analysis has not established that Biden himself sold tokens during the price collapse.
Exactly how much Biden may have personally made from $LAPTOP — if anything — remains unclear.
The project’s founders, including Biden, were slated to receive 30% of its 1 billion-token supply, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Those founder tokens were set to be locked for six months and become fully available over two years, according to the Journal — meaning their theoretical value during $LAPTOP’s fleeting surge cannot be treated as money Biden actually pocketed.
Bradley said blockchain records should eventually make it possible to trace $LAPTOP transactions and determine how much money flowed to wallets associated with its principals.
“We will be able to see finitely exactly how much,” he told The Post, though he added that he had not yet completed the analysis necessary to put a dollar figure on Biden’s personal proceeds.
The 56-year-old son of former President Joe Biden launched $LAPTOP this week on Base, the blockchain developed by crypto exchange Coinbase.
“They turned laptop into a weapon. I turned it into a token,” Biden wrote on X ahead of the launch.
The token takes its name from the laptop that became a political firestorm during the 2020 presidential campaign after The Post first reported on its contents, including messages concerning Biden’s overseas business dealings and photos documenting his drug use.
The Post has sought comment from Hunter Biden.
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Random fact that still gets people every time: some of the titanium used to build the SR-71 Blackbird was quietly sourced from the Soviet Union! Yup, the US literally bought the raw material for its top secret spy plane from the country it was built to spy on! One of the wildest ironies of the Cold War
Michael was 53.
Wisconsin. Teacher. Milwaukee Wave Summer Camp admin. Worked the sidelines with his son Rylan.
On 5 March 2021 he posted that he had just had his first COVID shot. He joked that it felt like someone was watching him, or Dennis Quaid was driving around inside him in a tiny submarine.
On 25 August 2026 SC Wave said he died unexpectedly from a ruptured aneurysm.
Esso posted on 2026-09-10 13:32:06 Reply Private Reply
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ghostrider posted on 2026-09-10 14:47:50 Reply Private Reply
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OK, you don't have to sell me on it!
Esso posted on 2026-09-10 15:19:43 Reply Private Reply
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Pinguinite posted on 2026-09-10 15:26:25 Reply Private Reply
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“Canada are buying Weapons of America to give to Ukraine - now that the US has stopped donating”
The biggest money laundering scheme since Covid & the climate change scam continues. Only now they are taking you into a ‘hot war’ with Russia.
ANTHONY FAUCI “NO LONGER FEELS SAFE” LEAVING HIS HOME, ACCORDING TO A PRIVATE SECURITY FIRM THAT RECENTLY LEFT HIM FOR NON-PAYMENT!
“He’s not worried about average Joe coming for him,” said Secutato Operations Manager Joe Barron. “He’s worried about being snatched up and sent to the Hague in a shipping crate.”
Fauci is wanted in 37 countries for crimes against humanity.
“He’s convinced it will be the Germans who get him. They lost a million people.”
Share this everywhere so the shipping crate stays ready!
Esso posted on 2026-09-10 16:26:20 Reply Private Reply
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America's most powerful vaccine organization has been hit with a federal RICO lawsuit for running a decades-long vaccine racketeering operation.
The American Academy of Pediatrics illegally deceived parents for decades into injecting their small children with large batteries of untested vaccines by issuing FRAUDULENT vaccine recommendations.
The AAP takes money from Merck, Pfizer, and Moderna to promote MAXIMAL vaccination for MAXIMUM profit, despite having ZERO safety data on injecting 72 doses into children.
And now, they finally face accountability.
Dr. Leonard Coldwell calls the use of statin drugs “mass murder.”
"It always cuts off at least 20 years of your life span."
"Your brain is cholesterol. A statin is a drug that lowers cholesterol. So if you want to have a marble size brain just keep on taking them."
"You don't die of too much cholesterol. You can't have too much cholesterol. You only die from not enough."
"I have patients that have cholesterol of 600. They're the most healthy people. “Never been ill.”
"Statin drugs are the most dangerous, useless drugs ever created."
NEWS: Birmingham's first halal food hall has been burned down today, just six months after opening
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ghostrider posted on 2026-09-10 22:39:10 Reply Private Reply
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Zelensky is in Canada seeking more aid. Carney is promising more of YOUR money.
Look at the corruption surrounding Zelenskyy:
• Andriy Yermak - former chief of staff: suspected money laundering.
• Herman Halushchenko - former energy and justice minister: suspected money laundering and participation in a criminal organization.
• Iryna Mudra - former deputy presidential office head: suspected corporate raiding and bail-money laundering.
• Olha Stefanishyna - former deputy PM and justice minister: suspected illicit enrichment and false declarations.
• Rostyslav Shurma - former deputy presidential office head: suspected solar-tariff embezzlement.
• Andrii Smyrnov - former deputy presidential office head: indicted over alleged enrichment, laundering and bribery.
His chief of staff. His ministers. His presidential office deputies.
How many names does Carney need before accountability becomes part of the sales pitch?
Publish the audits. Name the recipients. Show Canadians what protects their money.
Carney gets the handshake.
Zelensky gets the promise.
You get the bill.
Canada has supported Ukraine with billions, all while Canadian families are feeling the struggles! On Labour Day Mark Carney said Canadians will be hurt by Trump’s tariffs!
Today he commits 350 million dollars and signs a 100 year agreement to rebuild Ukraine!
What’s Brookfield’s piece of that pie?
Elbows Up though!
LITERALLY HATE MARK CARNEY.
A majority of Canadians do NOT want to see another dollar spent on Ukraine…
…ESPECIALLY GIVEN THE STATE OF CANADA TODAY.
As long as a single Canadian suffers or does without..
…WE CANT SENT MONEY ABROAD.
(Not a single fucking dollar.)
Ottawa’s generosity abroad deserves to be matched by urgency at home.
For Ukraine’s energy system: $10 million in contributions, $757 million in loan guarantees and $200 million in trade financing.
These are different financial instruments..not a billion-dollar cash donation. But they invite a straightforward question about priorities.
With nearly one in four Canadians reportedly living in food-insecure households, where is the same determination to help families put dinner on the table?
Supporting an ally is a defensible ambition. Canadians asking for affordable groceries deserve an equally convincing response.
A government’s international aspirations should never eclipse its domestic obligations.
Ottawa has finally discovered a renewable resource: the Canadian taxpayer’s ability to be told there’s no money.
The money tree has no leaves. The guy watering it has no savings. The watering can was financed.
Someone from Ottawa arrives with a bigger basket.
“Can we get another harvest?”
The tree checks Indeed.
That’s the joke. The uncomfortable part is how familiar it feels.
Governments announce money in billions because billions are wonderfully abstract. Nobody has ever stood at a checkout and heard, “That’ll be 0.00000012 billion, please.”
Households live in hundreds.
A hundred more for groceries. A few hundred for a repair. The amount left after the mortgage that has to somehow survive until payday.
A government commitment gets a press conference. A family commitment gets a payment reminder.
And somewhere between those two worlds, asking how spending decisions are made becomes a test of your character.
Ask about priorities and someone starts explaining why you should care about other people.
You do care. That’s why you’re asking about the people paying for it, too.
Supporting Ukraine is a policy choice a government can defend. Canadians are entitled to ask what was promised, what was delivered, what was lent, what must be repaid, and what results the spending achieved.
Those are ordinary accounting questions. They shouldn’t require a declaration of moral innocence.
The same scrutiny belongs on domestic spending. Slap a maple leaf on a bad investment and it remains a bad investment. Announce a fund with “strong” in the name and you still need to explain what it owns, what it earns, and who absorbs the losses.
A patriotic adjective is doing a lot of unpaid labour in this country.
Here’s the economic problem beneath the cartoon: public spending depends on an economy that keeps producing taxable income.
You need businesses willing to invest. Workers whose purchasing power improves. Projects that become operating assets. A tax base that grows because people become more productive and prosperous.
Borrowing can spread a cost over time. It cannot make the cost disappear.
And announcing another billion does not tell us whether the previous billion accomplished anything.
That’s the conversation Canadians deserve. Show the accounts. Explain the trade-offs. Defend the priorities. Measure the results.
The money tree isn’t refusing to help.
It would just like someone to notice that it’s now driving Uber on weekends.
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Esso posted on 2026-09-11 08:43:51 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2026-09-11 09:07:01 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2026-09-11 09:45:13 Reply Private Reply
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This beautiful, 100 ft tall monument was gifted to the people of the United States by the people of Russia in 2006, in memory of all those who lost their lives on that fateful day, September 11, 2001.
The breaking in the cracked façade forms the shape of the two towers.
The giant suspended tear drop signifies the tears of the entire world that day.
Maybe it's something that needs to be known, starting today.
Esso posted on 2026-09-11 10:23:36 Reply Private Reply
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Pinguinite posted on 2026-09-11 11:31:10 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2026-09-11 12:37:54 Reply Private Reply
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>>Back in the day, after the Cold War ended, the plan was for the US & the Russian Federation to be allied and basically run the World.
No, the quote that comes to mind with that is what Gandalf said to Saruman just before he escaped on the eagle. "The dark lord does not share power". (Probably paraphrased)
Russia actually floated the idea of joining NATO. A bit of history on that. It was shot down. The whole goal of the Western deep state now, post cold war, is to break Russia up into smaller countries that can each be handled as colonies much as Europe is today. It's not out of the question given the enormous physical size of Russia and the very diverse ethnicity that make up the country. If any country could be broken up, Russia would be a leading candidate more than any other on earth. The practical issue about that which goes ignored is what would happen to their 6000+ nuclear warheads/missiles. Political turmoil like that is fertile ground for corruption to get it's hands on the spoils.
Pinguinite posted on 2026-09-11 12:51:42 Reply Private Reply
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ghostrider posted on 2026-09-11 13:05:41 Reply Private Reply
#17: Esso To: Pinguinite (#13)
We do not want European raw materials or wealth; we have our own. We absolutely do not need your raw materials.
Russia is the richest country in the world in terms of raw materials.
We want neither your land nor your territory.
Look at the vastness of Russia on the map. It is twice as large as all of Europe. What good would your land do us? What would we do with it?
Why do you think Russia is an enemy of Europe?
What harm has Russia ever done to you?
Have we sold you gas and raw materials at prices lower than those charged by your 'friends'? YES
Did Russia sacrifice 20 million people during World War II to get rid of the Nazis? YES
Was Russia the first country to help Europe during the COVID-19 pandemic? YES
Have we helped Europe during fires and natural disasters? YES
What has Russia done to them for them to hate it so much?
Russia is not your enemy; your true enemies are your leaders, those who govern you. "
President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
[Coke-addled homosexual pedophile terrorist]
The reason for the hostility towards Russia is its possession of the world's largest proven natural gas reserves at 24%. Second largest global oil producer with massive reserves in Siberia and the Arctic. Coal: It possesses one of the world's largest coal reserves. It leads the world's countries in gold and diamond production and reserves. Rich in nickel, lead, silver, copper, and phosphate.
Esso posted on 2026-09-11 13:38:11 Reply Private Reply
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Pinguinite posted on 2026-09-11 14:06:21 Reply Private Reply
#19: Esso To: ghostrider (#16)
The Company didn't give me enough psychological training. This mental disease [clot shots/propaganda] wasn't around back then.
I just saw a little bit of the chicks getting teary-eyed before I got out of here.
I'm glad I got the stupid SpelChek issue squared away.
I know what I typed, so I can't see mistakes. I read ahead.
I guess I'm spoilt. You can have my red squiggly underscore when you kill me.
If it's misspelled, I'm fucking with your head.
Esso posted on 2026-09-11 14:32:14 Reply Private Reply
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Esso posted on 2026-09-11 14:44:08 Reply Private Reply
#21: Esso To: Pinguinite (#20)
Grow up you fucker. We can't have 4-year olds on here.
GayZ is the problem, not Putin.
Esso posted on 2026-09-11 16:40:16 Reply Private Reply
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Pinguinite posted on 2026-09-11 18:41:53 Reply Private Reply
#23: Esso To: Dakmar, ghostrider (#21)
It probably was my gay Hawaiian shirt, not the new fall Company collection CIA gear. People freak out over guns.
Teri Garr, not Teri Pacman. They looked a lot alike. They're both gone.
Esso posted on 2026-09-11 19:59:40 Reply Private Reply