If you aren’t familiar with Martin Shkreli, he’s the pharma bro that, according to BBC, is the ‘most hated man in America.’ For reference, he raised the price of a drug from $13.50 to $750 – an over 5,000% increase. And that’s just one instance of why he’s not so fond in the public eye.
This time around, Shkreli seems to have screwed himself over.
Last week he offered Kanye West $10 million for the rights to his latest album, The Life of Pablo. In his attempt to take away the attention from Kanye, he ultimately hurt himself. Shkreli posted a flurry of tweets claiming that he lost $15 million in Bitcoin to a man named “Daquan,” whom Shkreli believed was “Kanye’s boy.”
You can see some of Shkreli’s Tweet rant below.
WHO THE FUCK HAS MY FIFTEEN MILLION DOLLARS ?????????????????????????????????????
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 14, 2016
I NEED MY MONEY BACK THIS ISNT A FUCKING JOKE WTF
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 14, 2016
SOMEONE NAMED DAQUAN SAID HE WAS KANYES BOY AND I SIGND THE DEAL TO BUY PALBO AND SENT THE BITCOIN. CALL THE POLICE THIS IS BULSHIT
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 14, 2016
I hope you all enjoy this stupid music SO much and the fact it has brought me so much pain and suffering. I quit rap.
— Martin Shkreli (@MartinShkreli) February 14, 2016
February 19, 2016
So this was just Shkreli lusting after attention, perhaps a bump for http://bit.do/Uphold or http://bit.do/Coinbase but nothing more than a publicity grab for an asshole.