Crypto.com’s X account was compelled to delete a put up that includes a crypto-themed Chinese language checkers board after customers started evaluating it to the flag of Israel and making antisemitic remarks.
The meant symbology, nevertheless, was nothing to do with any shadowy Jewish plot, however quite referenced the sport of Chinese language checkers.
A sport of Chinese language checkers sourced from Wikimedia.
Crypto.com’s caption learn, “Strategy always beats luck.”
The sport, first invented in 1892 in Germany, is performed on a six-sided star-shaped board the place gamers compete to get their items to the other aspect.
In Crypto.com’s put up, gamers are depicted as totally different cryptocurrencies, particularly solana, bitcoin, ether, doge, XRP, and the trade’s personal cronos token.
Crypto.com’s Australian account additionally uploaded the put up, however this explicit picture nonetheless stays up on the time of writing.
It has, nevertheless, been inundated with X customers evaluating it to the Star of David and making antisemitic remarks.
Protos has reached out to Crypto.com for remark and can replace if we hear again.
