An Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain sold for over $150,000 worth of ETH today in an apparent joke gone wrong.
The buyer, who had previously been the seller, said that he forgot to cancel his own 100 ETH “joke” bid on the NFT.
Ethereum Name Service (ENS) names—effectively, domain names that point to crypto wallet addresses—are gaining value as desirable names sold as NFTs trade hands. But today, a noted NFT collector is down over $150,000 worth of ETH after a “joke” bid on an ENS name was actually accepted.
The pseudonymous collector Franklin, who owns 57 valuable Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs, had registered the ENS name stop-doing-fake-bids-its-honestly-lame-my-guy.eth using an alternate Ethereum wallet on Tuesday, and then today placed a 100 WETH (Wrapped Ethereum) bid—that’s nearly $151,000 right now—on it using his main wallet.
It was meant as a joke, he explained in tweets, to make the ENS Bids Twitter bot tweet it out, all while apparently mocking the very same practice. Today,...
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