WhiteBIT IT company bought the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 trophy from Kalush for 9 900 thousand. The funds will be used for the PD-2 drone
Ukrainian platform for trading cryptocurrencies WhiteBIT bought at auction the cup of the Eurovision Song Contest 2022, which this year was won by the Kalush Orchestra. The crypto exchange purchased the trophy for 9 900 thousand, the page reported eurovision.ua on Instagram.
"We are grateful to each of you who donated funds for this auction, and we are especially grateful to the Whitebit team, who bought the cup for 9 900,000 and from now on become the copyright holders of our cup. Subscribe to them, they really deserve it," Kalush's official Facebook page said.
WhiteBIT is a European centralized cryptocurrency exchange originally from Ukraine with more than 2 million users worldwide. It was founded in January 2018. Now the company's team consists of more than 400 people. The average daily trading volume is more than.1 billion.
What are the auction results?In turn, another lot — a pink Panama — was sold by Ukrainian rap artists together with volunteer Serhiy Prytula at auction for UAH 11 million.
All funds are promised to be allocated for a complex of PD-2 drones for the Ukrainian army.
"Panama for 11,000,000 hryvnias + Eurovision Winners' Cup for 9 900,000 = PD-2 UAV complex!"- wrote Pritula in the social network.
Recall that money for a similar attack unmanned system capable of carrying a bomb load was recently collected at DOU for the Come Back Alive Foundation.
Then the IT community managed to collect more than 30 million UAH in just a day.
