How An Anonymous Buyer Acquired 104 CryptoPunks For $7 Million In A Single Et...

How An Anonymous Buyer Acquired 104 CryptoPunks For $7 Million In A Single Et...

At the beginning of August 2021, it was reported that a buyer purchase over 100 Ethereum based Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) from the popular collection CryptoPunks. According to the reports, the anonymous investor tried not the attract too much attention and used the decentralized block production protocol MiningDAO. Therefore, he bride a miner to include all […]


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