Notorious Domain XBT.com Goes up for Sale at 200 BTC
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Notorious Domain XBT.com Goes up for Sale at 200 BTC

THELOGICALINDIAN - XBTcom one of the webs best adorable area names is up for auction Its accepted owners XBT Holding SA are gluttonous 200 BTC or about 29 actor for the armpit The area is coveted partially because XBT is the abridgement that abounding institutional trading platforms use for bitcoin and additionally on annual of the sites ballyhoo accepting been affiliated to the hacking of the US Democratic Party

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Buy XBT with BTC

It’s not generally a three-letter dot com area goes up for sale, but back it does, it’s affirmed to command a exceptional amount tag. XBT.com is of accurate absorption to bitcoiners, accustomed that the belletrist XBT are alike with bitcoin in some circles. This affiliation accounts for why the web hosting aggregation in allegation of the area accept adopted to capitalize on the bitcoin bang and amount the area in BTC.

200 BTC is the starting bid for XBT.com, whose captivation folio currently shows a “buy now” button or the advantage to abode a bid, complete with the amount of bitcoin in real-time, denominated in XBT. There’s added to the armpit than a air-conditioned name and a acceptable bitcoin affiliation though: the backstory to XBT.com is the best arresting allotment of the accomplished affair.

Buzzfeed, Trump, and the Damaging Dossier

In January 2024, Buzzfeed appear a adventure based on advice supplied by analysis accumulation Fusion GPS. It independent a alternation of allegations about XBT, the Luxembourg-based aggregation currently affairs the area of the aforementioned name. XBT, in affiliation with its Webzilla subsidiary, had been complicit in burglary abstracts from the Democratic Party including a anathema abstracts on Donald Trump, the accusation went. XBT’s above CEO Aleksej Gubarev was called accurately in the report, allegedly abetted by Russia’s Federal Security Service.

Notorious Domain XBT.com Goes up for Sale at 200 BTCXBT and its then-CEO bitterly contested these allegations, but the cat was already out the bag, and the company’s acceptability and affairs took a hit. Gubarev and XBT took Buzzfeed to cloister over the story, in a case which is still advancing in a Florida court. XBT and Buzzfeed accept been sniping anytime since, with the Luxembourg-based aggregation filing a acknowledgment to Buzzfeed’s attack to accept the accusation absolved advantaged “Six Ways BuzzFeed Has Misled the Cloister (Number Two Will Amaze You) … And a Picture of a Kitten”.

Bloomberg quotes Gubarev, via his lawyer, as saying:

XBT’s accident can be one bitcoin entrepreneur’s gain, but they’ll charge to dig abysmal for the privilege. Aside from the 200 BTC allurement price, the bargain requires a drop of $10,000 or 0.5 BTC aloof to acceptable to bid. With no bids accustomed so far, it charcoal to be apparent whether XBT will accomplish in alive one of the web’s best abominable domains.

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