The richest person in the world, Elon Musk is known for his negative attitude towards Twitter’s NFT profile picture feature and his relationship with the NFT industry in general. Musk harshly criticized Twitter’s new NFT feature last month, warning Twitter management about scams related to NFTs and cryptocurrencies on the platform. After Musk, the Dogecoin developer and co-founder also agreed with Musk on this issue and criticized Twitter’s failure to take action to protect the platform from fraudsters and bots.
However, if we look at the rumors, Musk got a very high end NFT from the famous NFT collection ‘Bored Ape Yatch’ consisting of 10,000 monkey images for a hefty sum. Justin Bieber also bought a piece from the collection, where many world-famous names such as Eminem, Post Malone, Stephen Curry and PAris Hilton bought a piece in the past; It was reported that the figure Bieber paid for a single NFT was $ 1.3 million.
NFT bought for $1.5 million
High-end Bored Ape NFT piece number 1837, according to a well-known NFT collector known on Twitter as Deepak.eth, It found buyers for approximately 600 Ethereum (ETH). Although the name of the buyer remains confidential, according to Deepak.eth, the owner of NFT for 569 ETH, or $ 1,583,218.40, is none other than Elon Musk.
According to the statement, the NFT part named BAYC#1837 was purchased by the moonpay-eth buyer, which Musk may have indirectly used to purchase. The claim that the anonymous buyer was Musk was further strengthened when the claim was shared on the Twitter account of the famous blockchain expert Colin Wu. Wu also stated in his post that the claim has not yet been confirmed by Musk.
Deepak, who previously offered the piece for sale for 690,420 ETH in reference to the widely known ‘meme tricks’ that Musk often used in his tweets, later increased the price of NFT to 569 ETH, probably to sell it faster. had dropped it.
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