--- title: "Elon Musk Says His Techno Song NFT Isn’t For Sale After All" description: "Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk isn't selling his song about NFTs in the form of an NFT after all." date: "2021-03-17" modified: "2021-03-17" authors: - name: "Victor Tangermann" job_title: "Senior Editor" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-song-nft-isnt-for-sale" categories: - "Blockchain" - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "NFTs" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "blockchain" - "elon musk" - "nfts" - "the digest" --- # Elon Musk Says His Techno Song NFT Isn’t For Sale After All ![Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk isn't selling his song about NFTs in the form of an NFT after all.]() *\Image: Elon Musk via Twitter\* ## Not for Sale Say it ain't so. Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk isn't selling his non-fungible token ([NFT]()) song, which is about NFTs, and which takes the form of an NFT, after all. "Actually doesn’t feel quite right selling this," Musk wrote in a [Tuesday evening tweet](). "Will pass." In case you haven't been following the saga, here's what you missed: Musk [uploaded a cryptic techno song]() to his Twitter on Tuesday. The song, including a heavily processed voice saying "NFT for your vanity, computers never sleep, it’s verified, it’s guaranteed," was unabashedly about the new art market trend. "I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT," Musk originally promised on Monday. The NFT exchange Valuables allowed people to bid on Musk's tweet, with the highest offer exceeding a million dollars, [*CNBC* reported](). https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1371549960030842893 ## Will Pass The NFT trend has taken the art market by storm, culminating in a JPG file by digital artist Beeple [selling for a whopping $69 million]() at world-renowned auction house Christie's earlier this month. Even Musk's partner, the famed musician Grimes, went all in on NFTs, selling her digital artwork for just shy of $6 million. It's still unclear what made one of the richest men in the world stop short of selling a song about NFTs as an NFT. Was it a brief — and exceedingly rare — moment of self reflection? Is he concerned about the [enormous environmental toll]() of blockchain tech? Does Musk know something about an impending crypto bubble that we don't? Is he perhaps too attached to his two minute techno song to give it away? We will likely never know. **READ MORE:** [Elon Musk turns down $1 million offer to buy his tweet as an NFT]() \[*CNBC*\] **More on the saga:** *[Elon Musk Says He's Selling a Techno Song About NFTs as an NFT]()* ## Author I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()