Pump.fun launches bounty platform paying users to complete tasks including facial tattoos.
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Pump.fun launches bounty platform paying users to complete tasks including facial tattoos.

Pump.fun, a cryptocurrency platform for memecoins, launched a feature called Pump.fun GO that allows users to offer cryptocurrency bounties for completed tasks. A Florida man paid approximately $3,000 in crypto to a man in Chennai, India, to tattoo an advertisement on his forehead, one of several controversial bounties posted to the platform.

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CNN emphasizes the exploitation of economic desperation in developing nations, while Washington Times highlights political calls for legislation and the twist ending where the tattoo recipient may have earned more through a spinoff token.
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“The website where crypto promoters pay people to tattoo ads on themselves - CNN”

WTWashington TimesRIGHT5h ago

“Crypto site pays people to tattoo ads on themselves”

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