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Niamh Rowe

Iggy Azalea is cashing in on crypto, as her ‘memecoin’ makes $194 million in one week

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Iggy Azalea knows the power of a meme. On Wednesday afternoon, the Grammy-nominated rapper shared a photoshopped image of herself breastfeeding Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum. The caption: “He was just hangry.”

The meme was designed to troll Buterin following his rebuke of her Solana-based “memecoin,” Mother Iggy ($MOTHER), that began trading last week. Celebrities should only launch cryptocurrencies to serve “some kind of public good,” instead of “financialization as the final product,” he wrote.

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