New Chapter: The PleasrDAO Now Owns Wu-Tang Clan’s One-Of-A-Kind Album
A Decentralized Autonomous Organization, the PleasrDAO, is in possession of “Once Upon A Time In Shaolin’s” only copy. Did the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album finally find a rightful owner? The PleasrDAO tried to buy it using cryptocurrencies. The US government required dollars, so an intermediary stepped in, assumed the risk, and brokered the deal. This […]
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‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’ has been dubbed the OG NFT and now PleasrDAO has turned the title deed to the work into a real NFT. PleasrDAO has revealed itself to be the new owners of Wu-Tang Clan's one-of-a-kind, unreleased album ‘Once Upon a Time in Shaolin’. The 74 members of the Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) now share collective ownership of the album. The group purchased the sole copy of the album from the US federal government for $4 million at the end of July this year, collected it in September and moved it to a vault at an undisclosed location in New York. The DAO....
After fighting in court since 2015, the former hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli was sentenced to seven years in prison for conspiring to commit securities fraud and he was forced to pay $7.4 million in fines. One of Shkreli’s prized possessions, an unreleased Wu-Tang Clan album, was seized by the U.S. Marshals and sold for $4 million. Just recently, the public was told that the unreleased record called “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin” was sold to the non-fungible token (NFT) collectors syndicate called “Pleasrdao.” The New Owners of ‘Once Upon a....
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