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Universal Music has purchased a Bored Ape NFT to the tune of $360,817 to frontline a new all-NFT music group called Kingship.

Universal Music Buys Ape NFT to Frontline a New Cursed Band

By Tony Ho Tran

Larry Dvoskin, an NFT entrepreneur, recently paid at least $2,000 to publish an article about how great NFTs are in The Rolling Stone.

NFT Guy Pays Rolling Stone to Run Article About How Great NFTs Are

By Tony Ho Tran

After rightfully facing blowback online, the Associated Press cancelled its plans to create an NFT from the image of a migrant boat.

News Service Shamed Into Canceling Sale of NFT of Desperate Migrants

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A few users who got scammed with the hoax "Cool Kitten" NFTs decided to get a little revenge on their swindlers with a coup.

A Bunch of People Who Got Scammed by an NFT Project Took Sweet Revenge

By Tony Ho Tran

Kanye West told fans via Instagram yesterday that his new album Donda 2 will only be available via something called a Stem Player.

Kanye West Says His Next Album Will Only Be Available on a Strange, Orb-Shaped Device

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The 27 most expensive recorded NFT sales in January amounted to $1.3 billion — but it came from just two crypto wallets trading with each other.

Evidence Is Piling Up That a Huge Number of NFT Sales Are Fake

By Tony Ho Tran

NFT creators are using wash trading to falsely inflate the prices on their JPGs every day according to crypto market transparency publication Chainanalysis.

NFT Scammers Are Using a Sneaky Trick to Make Their JPGs Seem Like They’re Worth a Fortune

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A number of thieves on the OpenSea platform have made more than $1 million by exploiting a loophole in the NFT trading platform.

Thieves Just Stole Even More Bored Ape NFTs

By Tony Ho Tran

Hip-hop star and fashion designer Kanye West took to Instagram to let the world know that he wants people to stop asking him about NFTs.

Kanye West Slams NFTs, Saying He Creates “Real Products” Instead

By Tony Ho Tran

OpenSea announced this week that a solid 80 percent of the NFTs minted through its free NFT creation tool are spam or fraud.

NFT Marketplace Admits That 80 Percent of NFTs Are Spam, Scams and Fraud

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Melania Trump launched an NFT auction that ended with the image going for $80,000 less than the starting bid due to crashing crypto markets.

Melania Trump NFT Completely Bombs During Auction

By Tony Ho Tran

Ozzy Osbourne and his NFT project CryptoBatz posted a tweet that led to people beign scammed out of thousands of dollars with little recourse.

Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT Company Got a Bunch of His Followers Scammed Out of Their Money

By Lonnie Lee Hood

The Open Source Afro Hair Library was designed to improve the way digital artists and video game developers portray 3D models of Black hairstyles.

3D Artists Create Better Models of Black Hairstyles for Video Games

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

Hackers Steal $2.2 Million Worth of NFTs From Art Collector

By Tony Ho Tran

Reality TV star Stephanie Matto has announced that she would stop selling her farts in jars — and start selling them as NFTs.

Reality TV Star Stops Selling Her Farts in Jars to Sell Fart NFTs Instead

By Tony Ho Tran

Crypto.com is getting roasted for a new Matt Damon ad that likens investing in the blockchain to being a historical figure and pioneer. Twitter disagrees.

Crypto.com Is Getting Roasted for an Absurdly Self-Important Ad Starring Matt Damon

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Rapper Eminem just purchased a Bored Ape NFT that looks just like him for nearly half a million dollars. He owns almost two dozen NFTs in total.

Eminem Just Bought a Bored Ape NFT for a Half Million Dollars

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An NFT project selling different poorly-drawn illustrations of George Floyd was released on the OpenSea platform on December 7.

Someone’s Selling Shockingly Racist NFTs of George Floyd

By Tony Ho Tran

Elon Musk tweeted a meme mocking NFT lovers this week, just after saying he'd use Doge Coin and after a previous attack against DAO users.

Elon Musk Mocks NFTs as Sign of Mental Illness

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Somebody paid roughly $650,000 in ethereum for an NFT yacht sold by developer Republic Realm in the metaverse platform The Sandbox.

Someone Paid $650,000 for a Nonexistent Yacht in the Metaverse

By Tony Ho Tran

An NFT collector got mad that somebody on Twitter was saving their NFT, a hilarious exchange that cuts to the core of a very nuanced debate.

Person Furious That Someone Right Click Saved Their Precious NFT

By Victor Tangermann

In a tiring display of late-stage capitalism, the burger chain announced that it created McRib NFTs in celebration of the sandwich’s 40th anniversary.

McDonald’s Created a McRib NFT Because We Live in Hell

By Tony Ho Tran

The developer of "Evolved Apes" just called it quits, absconding with 798 ether, about $2.7 million, a week after the launch of the project.

NFT Developer Absconds With $2.7 Million Dollars

By Victor Tangermann

A Colombian artist is selling NFTs of "cocaine" and finding that some of his biggest opposition isn’t law enforcement — but rather social media platforms.

Instagram Threatens to Delete Artist’s Account for Selling NFTs of Cocaine

By Tony Ho Tran

The upcoming all-civilian SpaceX mission Inspiration4 will bring dozens of NFTs into space for charity, including an unreleased Kings of Leon recording.

SpaceX Tourist Spacecraft Will Be Loaded With Dozens of NFTs

By Dan Robitzski

Sales of NFTs on OpenSea, an NFT buying and selling platform, hit a record high of $3.4 billion in August and is on track to do well in September.

After Cratering, NFT Prices Are Spiking Again

By Tony Ho Tran

12-year-old Benyamin Ahmed has made nearly $400,000 after programming and selling a series of NFTs of pixelated doodles called "Weird Whales."

Science & Energy

12-Year-Old Earns $400,000 Selling NFTs to Idiots

By Dan Robitzski

An NFT of the Doge meme has been sold for more than $4 million on Friday making it the highest ever paid for an NFT of a meme.

An NFT of the Original “Doge” Pic Just Sold For $4 Million

By Tony Ho Tran

Anthony Weiner is strongly considering capitalizing on his own sex scandals by selling old tweets or search warrants as NFTs.

Science & Energy

Anthony Weiner May Sell Infamous Nude Tweet as an NFT

By Dan Robitzski

A genetic sequencing startup is putting famed geneticist George Church's own DNA for sale as an NFT.

A Harvard Scientist Is Selling His Genetic Code as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

A single pixel, a part of an NFT by digital artist Pak, sold for $1.36 million worth of Ether at auction house Sotheby's.

Artist Sells NFT of Single Pixel for $1.7 Million

By Victor Tangermann

They were meant to revolutionize the art collection market — but the prices of non-fungible tokens or NFTs are crashing right now.

Not Very Surprisingly, NFT Prices Are Now Crashing

By Victor Tangermann

Celebrity humanoid robot Sophia just sold a digital artwork as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $688,888, as Reuters reports.

Humanoid Robot Sophia Sells 12 Second Video NFT for Almost $700,000

By Victor Tangermann

Digital artist Beeple, otherwise known as Mike Winkelmann, decided to sell his share of $53 million in ether he got for selling an NFT.

The Guy Who Sold a $69 Million NFT Thinks NFTs Are Pretty Dumb

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto fan Cameron Winklevoss says that the NFT fad is going to "liberate art." This whole exercise is getting exhausting.

Crypto Titan Makes Grandiose, Nonsense Claim That NFTs “Liberate” Art

By Dan Robitzski

Brooklyn-based film director Alex Ramírez-Mallis's NFT called "One Calendar Year of Recorded Farts" is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

A Man Just Sold Something Truly Horrible as an NFT

By Victor Tangermann

Toilet paper maker Charmin decided to get in on the NFT trend and put up a series of uninspired JPGs and GIFs for sale.

Charmin Debuts Toilet Paper NFTs

By Victor Tangermann

NFTs prove ownership over a piece of digital art. But will they survive when the exchange that sold them shutters?

NFTs Have a Huge Persistence Problem

By Victor Tangermann

Technology research group MERL Tech investigated the lofty claims of 43 blockchain startups. In a new report, the group claims none of them delivered.

Wait, How Do You Pronounce “NFT”?

By Tony Ho Tran