Providing much-needed closure for millions of people worldwide who raged to find the culprits, online crypto-satire news outlet XRP the Standard Productions was stormed by dozens of FBI agents Friday for their connection with Wednesday's gargantuan Bitcoin-associated Twitter hack.

“Lighten up, people!” screamed XRP_Productions' Editor-in-Chief Clay Finkelstein as he was cuffed and pushed toward an unmarked black vehicle. “It was a joke! We just wanted a laugh! We just wanted a laaaaaauuuugghhhh.....”

XRP the Standard Productions' Editor-in-Chief Clay Finkelstein being hauled away by FBI agents Friday morning. The online crypto-satire publication is reportedly solely responsible for Wednesday's large-scale Twitter hack.

The hack, which commandeered countless well-known Twitter accounts and produced tweets asking for Bitcoin to be sent to criminal wallet addresses, was a stunt that some say has set back the public acceptance of Bitcoin by years.

“That was the joke,” said an attorney for Mr. Finkelstein. “If my client is guilty of anything, it's that his prank was just too funny.”

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