Mar 23, 2021 08:16 UTC
Mar 23, 2021 at 08:17 UTC
Tony Hawk joints a rising list of celebrities digitizing & selling their figurines as non-fungible tokens. The skateboarding icon tactics to auction a film of the previous time he did the Ollie 540 – the trick he first grasped 32 years ago.
Ethernity Chain to Mint & Sale the Digital Collectible as NFT Boom Hurries
On the heels of many blockbuster NFT sales by entertainers, celebrities, artists, & crypto evangelists, professional skateboarder Tony Hawk is usual to auction his digital collectible at a still unexpected time & date.
The 52-year old pop-culture icon proclaimed on Instagram that he had finished his final performance of the 540-degree “Ollie” that he property-owning first in 1989, underscoring the scare & hazard of doing the trick. On Twitter, he further, ‘Did my last ever ollie 540 today. You can liken it to my first one 32 years ago. This one meant a lot to me.’
Rendering to the pro skateboarder, @tweestophers, angle of the shot of him implementation the trick would be cast as an NFT on the Ethernity Chain & auctioned. Ethernity, a quickly increasing NFT blockchain network, is recognized for its social bent, given that all NFTs auctions donate a helping of the profits to charitable reasons. The network has lately been tasked with building a group of Muhammad Ali NFTs to advantage the Ali Center.
Rising Chorus of Celebrity NFT Auctions Echo Big Auction Consequences
Hawk’s choice to turn to Ethernity for this occasion highlights the network’s rising cache after the presentation of a 25k-piece lineup of Bosslogic’s NFT images exactly for Ethernity’s community.
Bosslogic’s sales, while important, were dwarfed by Beeple’s new consequences in a Christie’s auction, which saying the artist sell 1 sole JPEG made of 5K smaller images for an eye-watering $69.3M by Singapore founded cryptocurrency investor Metakovan. Beeple has also auctioned NFTs for charity.
The NFT-craze has involved numerous other celebrities, with Grimes, Lindsey Lohan, & important cryptocurrency evangelists like Twitter’s Jack Dorsey & Gemini’s Winklevoss twins. Still, some are additionally hesitant to hold the movement, such as Litecoin’s Charlie Lee, who compares the auctions to the hypothetical ICO bubble.
Tony Hawk has not been as vocal as approximately of his celebrity counterparts in talking up cryptocurrency & NFTs, hitherto he is been an astonishingly long-time advocate of Bitcoin. Tweets in historical years establish that he’s “handled” BTC meanwhile 2013. Hawk was also scheduled to current at the BTC 2020 conference in San Francisco last March earlier it was irrecoverable due to the pandemic.
