After all John Legere, the previous CEO of T-Cellular, has jumped into NFTs by spending $888,888.88 on one made by Steve Aoki, in line with Rolling Stone. It’s good to know he’s conserving busy after stepping down from T-Cellular’s CEO gig on April 1, 2020.
The NFT in query is named “furry.” It’s a 36 second-long video, that includes music — which Rolling Stone describes as “soundscapes in concord with digital animations” and I might describe as “if Darude have been making music from inside a Recreation Boy” — and this visible:
Not solely is Legere’s possession of the video completely embedded within the blockchain, however he’ll additionally get a display screen in some acrylic that can show the NFT, so long as he doesn’t promote it within the subsequent two weeks.
Aoki might be greatest identified for his music profession. The NFT is the newest in a sequence of Aoki’s eclectic initiatives, which embody a branded Avenue Fighter II arcade cupboard, and several other Samsung commercials. Based on Rolling Stone, his assortment of NFTs with Antonio Tudisco visuals introduced in $4.25 million, with Legere’s buy as the largest of the lot.
In a method it was meant to be: Aoki’s father based the Benihana firm of eating places. There’s a Benihana within the Las Vegas T-Cellular Enviornment. Kismet, you recognize?