Digital Art Collector & Curator 💎 The People’s Champ 🏆 ➡️ @the33family + @33gallery
The Moon + Metaverse
Joined March 2021
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A @Crypto_Skulls here and there is never a bad idea to add to a collection. Currently 18, working to aquire 50 Skulls.
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This prototype CryptoPunk was hidden for almost a decade in an undeployed Solidity contract 🤯
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Everyone wants to buy NFTs when the market is flying. That’s the easy part.
The real opportunities come when the market is quiet, prices are down and everyone else has lost interest.
Build your collection when nobody is paying attention. You don’t have to wait for the next bull run to realise the value of being early.
Buy the silence, not the hype.
The only documented personal artwork by @metakovan “Savage$77”
He is Metakovan. He spent $69 million buying an NFT.
He grew up in Hosur, a small city in southern India. He never set foot in a museum as a kid. The movie theater was the only art he knew.
At 12 he taught himself to code, sometimes on borrowed computers.
In 2012 he was trying to move money between two trading accounts. That's how he found Bitcoin.
What followed: a crypto exchange, a Bitcoin ATM network, a lending platform. He was an early investor in Ethereum, Polkadot and Flow. He moved from India to Canada, then to Singapore.
He chose a name that mixes "metaverse" with "kovan," the Tamil word for king.
March 11, 2021. Nearly 4 a.m. in Singapore. Alone at his iMac in his favorite T-shirt, Starbucks cups on the desk, backup computers ready in case the site crashed.
22 million people were watching the same page.
When the clock hit zero, he owned Beeple's Everydays. $69,346,250. Paid in 42,329 ETH.
He couldn't even celebrate. Covid rules. So he stayed up till dawn planning which architect would build a home for it in the metaverse.
Then came the storm. B20 token accusations. A lawsuit with his own partner. A market that fell 97%.
He called it his "meaning crash."
One artist changed his path. Olafur Eliasson reached out right after the auction. He didn't even know who Eliasson was. Dozens of Zoom calls later: "He took that interest in me, which changed my life."
Today he runs Padimai, a free art studio in a Singapore warehouse.
The Beeple? He keeps it in a private VR space, 13 stories tall. Only friends get to see it.
Will he sell it? "It'd be the last thing I would consider selling."
From a boy with no museums to the owner of the most expensive NFT ever sold.
If you owned it, would you hide it for a generation, or show the world?
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“CITY” by @dave_krugman has sold to @AdamWeitsman for $150,000
The culmination of five years documenting 1,000 NYC windows 🪟
The sale includes an evolving onchain work and a physical piece bound for Weitsman’s planned digital art museum in Carl Sagan’s former home
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The NFT market is about to change.
We are building a marketplace where NFTs and digital art are first class citizens.
We've done a massive revamp over the last few weeks and we are only getting started.
Your next move starts on Gondi.
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'CITY' by @dave_krugman is acquired for $150,000 USD by @AdamWeitsman.
The sale includes:
- 1/1 dynamic artwork and living network of the WINDOWS // NYC project
- 1/1 grand scale physical work of all 1000 WINDOWS, which will head to the future Digital Art Museum Weitsman is building in the former Carl Sagan Residence in Ithaca, New York
