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Hunter Biden’s $LAPTOP memecoin launch
Hunter Biden launched the $LAPTOP memecoin, using the name of the laptop controversy that has defined his public profile. Critics including Coffeezilla and cryptocurrency commentators called the project a “shitcoin” or scam and warned against buying it; Channel 5 disavowed promoting crypto after controversy over an audience-list file. Biden framed the token as an act of resilience, redemption, and recovery and contrasted it with Donald Trump’s token.
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“They turned a laptop into a weapon. But I decided to turn it into something else.”
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Hunter Biden’s public post characterizing the launch as a memecoin built around resilience, redemption, and recovery.
Biden first announced the token on September 7, with trading scheduled for September 9. His subsequent public launch post described the project as a memecoin built around “resilience, redemption, and recovery.” Coffeezilla publicly called it a “shitcoin” and told followers not to buy it. Threadguy called it a scam; Ansem compared it to celebrity-token launches that had gone badly; Trey Walsh criticized Biden’s broader redemption tour. Channel 5 stated that it did not advertise crypto and had no role in the token after it was criticized for providing Biden a mailing-list export. These are attributed reactions, not findings that the project was fraudulent or unlawful. The record distinguishes direct condemnations, criticism, and organizational disavowal from unverified social-media chatter.