Famed Trader Joe Lewis is not investing in your play money
Bitcoiners are feverishly spreading the rumor that Joe Lewis is investing in the Bitcoin ASIC “company,” Avalon, passing a link to this now-rescinded story on the Wall Street Journal. One of the commenters there was quick to put two and two together and find that Bitcoin just doesn’t add up:
![Telephone](http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Telephone.png)
A literal childe
Even the folks at reddit have managed to determine that the story is false, at least I think they did. Wait, no, they just read this tweet by a man who actually took the time to do a little research:
Despite this, twitter is still full of rabid bitcoiners spreading this crap like wildfire. What’s the opposite of FUD but also a total lie?
I don’t have anything else to add so here’s a photo of some bitcoins where they belong:
![buttbucket](http://www.buttcoinfoundation.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/buttbucket.jpg)
Yes that’s the “Daily Miner”