You know how the crypto world is full of shoulda/woulda/coulda situations?
Surely you do. Literally every person and their dog(e) has heard a story about someone who once owned a couple of Bitcoin or “cashed in” on Ethereum midway through 2018 only to miss out on the 2020/21 boom. Well another example of that is the 10,000 pixelated NFTs that were given away for free in 2017 by their creators known as CryptoPunks.
Now selling for an average of $50K USD the collection is worth an estimated 232K Eth, which is roughly $573 million USD, and one collector is making sure that he or she doesn’t have one of those if only moments. Currently owning about 1% of all CryptoPunks, the anonymous Ethereum whale is something of a mystery, having acquired the tokens through a wallet specifically created for those transactions, which makes their transaction history untraceable.
What we can say for sure is that we wish we got out dirty little digital mitts on a couple of these guys back when they were giving them away… Head here if you’re interested in throwing away some of your hard-earned on some now.
Here’s a really dated explainer of CryptoPunks:
