Memecoin trader briefly becomes millionaire off throwaway Elon Musk X gag
A crypto trader turned $10,000 into $1.3 million with a well-timed purchase of the token “TROLL” after Elon Musk updated his bio to “Chief Troll Officer” on X.
One lucky trader has seemingly turned $10,000 into just over $1 million in less than ten days after purchasing a memecoin “TROLL,” just moments after Elon Musk changed his bio on X to “Chief Troll Officer.”
Etherscan data cited by blockchain data provider LookOnChain shows the trader converted a total of 4.3 Ether (ETH) — worth approximately $10,000 at the time — into 19 trillion TROLL tokens.
On the same day, the trader sold 9 trillion worth of TROLL to cover their buy-in, holding the remaining 10 trillion tokens — which, at one point, was worth $1.34 million.
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