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Father works in traditional finance, someone pays an incredible amount of money for his son’s NFTs. Hmm.

by eurasiantiger 5y ago

quickthrower2 5y ago
Gotta prime the pump
- eurasiantiger 5y ago
  This is it, exactly. No different from the retro games pump-and-dump WATA is pulling.
sva_ 5y ago
Deploying the contract must've cost quite a bit[0]. Seems like the creator of the contract minted 10 tokens for over $900[1]. Idk, I guess I must've been a poor 12-year old, if that's what 12-year olds spend on their hobbies nowadays. [0] https://etherscan.io/token/0x96ed81c7f4406eff359e27bff6325dc3c9e042bd#readContract https://etherscan.io/token/0x96ed81c7f4406eff359e27bff6325dc... [1] https://etherscan.io/tx/0x17654fa3a9b49fc1688df27d195ffb59a17e2b7b03d69aefc3953300f8b1504b https://etherscan.io/tx/0x17654fa3a9b49fc1688df27d195ffb59a1...
- KMnO4 5y ago
  Maybe he made $900 previously from ETH? I don’t know. 12 is a bit young but I remember having a job at 14 and “limitless money” because I didn’t have any responsibilities. I could have easily justified $900 as “only two pay checks”.
  - oliwarner 5y ago
    Earning $900 at 14 seems extraordinarily high, especially if you're talking about a while ago. In the UK a 14yo can only work 25h/week outside term time and must have at least two weeks rest over summer, with no minimum wage. £4/h isn't unheard of (a pretty typical rate for a paperound). I worked cleaning cars at a garage decades ago, maybe scraping £3/h for 10 hours a week. I think many of today's 14yos would struggle to break £400 over the entire holiday. ... That is, as is the contention here, unless they have a family member paying them a decent wage.
PragmaticPulp 5y ago
They claim this was his second set of NFTs, and that he managed to make 3,350 unique artworks to sell this time: > This time, he drew inspiration from a well known pixelated whale meme image and a popular digital-art style but used his own program to create the set of 3,350 emoji-type whales. All while coding for "20 to 30 minutes per day". Seems pretty clear that this is the dad (who works in software in finance) cashing in on the NFT trend and using his 12 year old son to generate the publicity.

Father works in traditional finance, someone pays an incredible amount of money for his son’s NFTs. Hmm.

quickthrower2 5y ago

Gotta prime the pump

eurasiantiger 5y ago
This is it, exactly. No different from the retro games pump-and-dump WATA is pulling.

sva_ 5y ago

Deploying the contract must've cost quite a bit[0]. Seems like the creator of the contract minted 10 tokens for over $900[1]. Idk, I guess I must've been a poor 12-year old, if that's what 12-year olds spend on their hobbies nowadays. [0] https://etherscan.io/token/0x96ed81c7f4406eff359e27bff6325dc3c9e042bd#readContract https://etherscan.io/token/0x96ed81c7f4406eff359e27bff6325dc... [1] https://etherscan.io/tx/0x17654fa3a9b49fc1688df27d195ffb59a17e2b7b03d69aefc3953300f8b1504b https://etherscan.io/tx/0x17654fa3a9b49fc1688df27d195ffb59a1...

KMnO4 5y ago
Maybe he made $900 previously from ETH? I don’t know. 12 is a bit young but I remember having a job at 14 and “limitless money” because I didn’t have any responsibilities. I could have easily justified $900 as “only two pay checks”.
- oliwarner 5y ago
  Earning $900 at 14 seems extraordinarily high, especially if you're talking about a while ago. In the UK a 14yo can only work 25h/week outside term time and must have at least two weeks rest over summer, with no minimum wage. £4/h isn't unheard of (a pretty typical rate for a paperound). I worked cleaning cars at a garage decades ago, maybe scraping £3/h for 10 hours a week. I think many of today's 14yos would struggle to break £400 over the entire holiday. ... That is, as is the contention here, unless they have a family member paying them a decent wage.

PragmaticPulp 5y ago

They claim this was his second set of NFTs, and that he managed to make 3,350 unique artworks to sell this time: > This time, he drew inspiration from a well known pixelated whale meme image and a popular digital-art style but used his own program to create the set of 3,350 emoji-type whales. All while coding for "20 to 30 minutes per day". Seems pretty clear that this is the dad (who works in software in finance) cashing in on the NFT trend and using his 12 year old son to generate the publicity.