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Nimiq signed a deal with WAG Bank to PAY 1 MILLION DOLLAR FOR 9.9% OF WEG Bank with an evaluation of a "bank" of only 10 million dollars. But the deal is not in Fiat or Eth or BTC. The deal was in Nimiq. Because team nimiq didn't own enough coins just 10% of the 1 million USD deal in nimiq, they started buying coins from the market on HitBTC. The entire pump is caused only by NIMIQ / WEG BANK buying over ~ 1 billion coins from the market. This is the sure way to lose money: buy your own coin buying high and selling low.
IMHO. Besides the fact that nimiq is turning into a shady ICO exactly like TokenPay which is always lying and deceiving people (even scamming bounty hunters for millions of dollars ), I believe that the entire buyout of 9.9% of WEG Bank (which doesn't have 1 customer and 1 working product/service) it have cost them more than 1 million dollar. It could have cost them at least 2.5 million dollars making the scam "bank" evaluation for 25 million dollars. I am just curious if Richy or others will disclose the figure number to know how much they waisted buying 9.9% of nothing.