The person donated 26 Bitcoin to Jones, which traded at around $40,000 apiece at the time of the transaction.
Sandy Hook families filed a motion on April 6 claiming that Jones moved his funds to shell companies in order to avoid paying money he owes in compensation for the historic defamation case.
In addition to that million-dollar donation, supporters of Jones’ far-right activism have flooded him with more than $330,000 worth of Bitcoin and Ethereum since he involved himself in cryptocurrency, Hatewatch found.
Hatewatch reported on April 6 of this year that Jones drove significant traffic to his Infowars store while pushing the “Stop the Steal” campaign that ultimately evolved into an attack on the U.S.
Donors had sent that address 0.3771955 Bitcoin across 42 transactions, worth a total of about $37,000 at the time of transfer, before the anonymous megadonor filled it with 26 Bitcoin.
Including the additional money Jones had in the account at that time, he transferred out $1,387,673.19 worth of Bitcoin that day.
Whoever transferred the 26 Bitcoin to Jones split it off from a larger cache of just under 258 tokens of the digital asset that they hold in total from the same account.
Hatewatch has not yet identified the person behind the donations, but they appear to have controlled at least 3,000 Bitcoin at the time they made the donation and actively traded in Bitcoin as early as 2011.
Jones’ other mystery megadonor pumped roughly $266,000 worth of Bitcoin into his wallet at a time when the extremist sought support for his Sandy Hook lawsuit defense.
The same donor also sent cryptocurrency to prominent American white nationalist groups such as VDARE and American Renaissance on the same day he donated to Jones.
And I never endorsed it because I thought at the end of the day it was gonna be like the tulip, you know, fiasco in the Netherlands a couple hundred years ago.
Jones appeared as a guest on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast in February 2019 and used the appearance to claim that he turned down $5 million worth of Bitcoin from George Soros in exchange for pumping it.
Max Keiser, a host on Russia Today , television commentator and longtime Bitcoin supporter, appeared as a guest on Jones’ Infowars show in May 2020 to speak about cryptocurrency.
In March 2021, Jones promoted to his audience a pay-for-referrals plan with Swan Bitcoin, meaning that his viewers could use a special link to sign up for the service and receive 10 dollars’ worth of Bitcoin as a sign-up incentive.
On March 25, 2021, Jones invited Keiser on a show he branded “The Bitcoin Civil War.” During that episode, both men promoted Swan Bitcoin affiliate links.