The memecoin was launched shortly after ABC News reported police found bullet casings emblazoned with the three words at the crime scene.
A new memecoin has launched called 'Deny. Defend. Depose,' words that were reportedly found inscribed on three bullet casings found at the scene of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's murder in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday.According to crypto trading website Dexscreener, the new coin was created shortly before midnight EST on December 4, with a photograph of the man police are searching for in relation to Thompson's shooting as its profile picture.
Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Thompson was shot in both the back and right calf during the assault.The Dexscreener exchange shows that as of 5:45 a.m. ET on Thursday 802 people held 'Deny. Defend. Depose' coins, which were valued at $0.0479 each, with a total market cap of $79,000.Memecoins are a form of cryptocurrency that are typically created as a joke or prank, in contrast to more serious online currencies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum.
for comment by email and telephone respectively on Thursday outside of regular office hours.A number of social media users have questioned whether the words reported on the shell casings are referencing a book published by Professor Jay M. Feinman, an insurance law expert who used to teach at Rutgers Law School, titled Delay, Deny, Defend: Why Insurance Companies Don't Pay Claim and What You Can Do About It.
. The letters 'DDD' and words 'DENY. are superimposed over the image.An X link embedded in the profile links to an ABC News story reporting the words 'deny,' 'defend' and 'depose' had been found on three bullet cases at the murder scene.Surveillance footage acquired by CNN showed a gunman shooting Thompson several times from behind on the sidewalk after stepping out from behind a parked car.
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