Ameen Soleimani, co-founder of SpankChain, “a (cryptocurrency) payment platform for the adult industry,” is in hot water on Twitter for tweeting at a critic, “You are really proud of how Jewish you are.”
The comment seems unwarranted particularly because no evident references to religion or nationality had been made on the thread until Soleimani weighed in on the subject.
A tweet from Colin Platt shows that the price of SPANK cryptocurrency dropped by 20% following Soleimani’s tweet.
Soleimani apparently sent a series of angry tweets later on in which vehemently denies he is antisemitic…
….and sarcastically “confessed”:
When called out for resorting to this type of narrative in the first place, Soleimani tweeted critically on the subject of all religion. He was then told by the apparent subject of his derisive tweet that his comment was being considered “hate speech”:
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One of Spankchain’s twitter feeds promotes the work of “camgirls and boys” willing to provide live-streaming erotic shows in exchange for cryptocurrencies transmitted through users’ “SpankPay” accounts.
SpankChain has billed itself as empowering to erotic performers and sex workers, who are often denied banking and payments-processing by mainstream providers concerned about fund origins.