Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy claims he is being sued by SafeMoon investors.
In a bizarre video posted on Twitter on Monday, the internet celebrity confronts a man who he says had knocked on his door early in the morning to inform him of a lawsuit. In the video, Portnoy asks the man, “How many times did you knock on my door for this shit?”
He said the visitor had been “pounding on my door at 8am for 10 minutes straight.” He also posted a picture of the summons document.
“For the millionth time I didn’t get a nickel from Safemoon,” he wrote. “I told people it may be a scam before I invested.”
SafeMoon is a cryptocurrency that taxes transactions and redistributes tokens to holders. It runs on Binance Smart Chain, the blockchain created by the world’s biggest crypto exchange, Binance.
SafeMoon was popular last year—along with lots of other “alt coins”—and its price shot up as people pumped it on social media.
Portnoy, who calls himself “the baron of Bitcoin,” last year invested $40,000 in the asset. He then called it his “favorite shitcoin.”
But investors have since lost…
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