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Listen to Elon Musk’s song about NFTs on Twitter.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Tesla CEO about selling a song about NFTs — short for\u00a0\u00a0basically digital certificates of authenticity — as an NFT.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Actually, doesn’t feel quite right selling this. Will pass,” he tweeted Tuesday afternoon. Selling the song would have given the buyer the digital rights to ownership of the song.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
On Monday, he had tweeted that he was selling a song about NFTs. The song has a techno beat and repeats “NFT” over and over, eventually getting to the female-sung lyrics “NFT for your vanity, computers never sleep, it’s verified, it’s guaranteed.” No, it doesn’t sound like\u00a0\u00a0to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I’m selling this song about NFTs as an NFT <\/p>\n
\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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Musk posted the song with an animation of a spinning “vanity trophy” with lots of references to different elements of the technology, including dogs representing, presumably, . You kind of just have to see it yourself. He never publicized which platform he would be selling the song on, or when, before he changed his mind.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
NFTs have gotten a ton of attention over the past few weeks, with artists, entertainers and people in the media getting involved in selling digital<\/a> rights to different things, . For example, a\u00a0 spoiling a fast break sold for $100,000 on Top Shot, the NBA’s marketplace for highlight reels. In early March, Kings of Leon became the first band best android phone<\/a> to announce the\u00a0, with three types of tokens that include special artwork and perks. Pop star Shawn Mendez last month\u00a0\u00a0of digital goods in the form of NFTs. Meanwhile, the Associated Press is\u00a0\u00a0of the 2020 US presidential contest. Twitter CEO\u00a0\u00a0is even selling the\u00a0.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" id=”article-body” class=”row” section=”article-body̶\u2026","protected":false},"author":11524,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3212],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48605"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11524"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48605"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48606,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48605\/revisions\/48606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yorunoteiou.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}