{"id":39078,"date":"2021-03-17T13:45:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T11:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39078"},"modified":"2025-08-30T07:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T04:50:43","slug":"elon-musk-declines-sale-of-nft-techno-track-after-beeples-69-million-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/elon-musk-declines-sale-of-nft-techno-track-after-beeples-69-million-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk declines sale of NFT techno-track after Beeple&#8217;s $69 million offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk has changed his mind about selling a techno-track about non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Actually, doesn\u2019t feel quite right selling this. Will pass.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1371969967176957956?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>&#8220;It doesn&#8217;t feel right to sell this. I will back out,&#8221; the billionaire wrote.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On March 15, Musk <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/elon-musk-lists-nft-of-nft-song-for-sale\">published<\/a> an NFT on his Twitter and said he would put it up for sale. On the Valuables marketplace anonymous bidders posted an auction for the tweet with the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>At the time of writing, the highest bid for the billionaire\u2019s NFT tweet stood at $1.1 million. It was placed by Sina Estavi, founder of Bridge Oracle.<\/p>\n<p>Digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, offered $69 million for Musk\u2019s NFT. In response, the billionaire requested 420 million DOGE \u2014 about $24.3 million at the rate at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe buzzworthy offer from Musk helped divert tens of millions of his followers on Twitter from news about leadership shake-ups at Tesla and the federal investigation into the Tesla crash last week,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/03\/17\/elon-musk-turns-down-1-million-offer-to-buy-his-tweet-as-an-nft.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier in March, the head of Tesla <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/tesla-creates-master-of-coin-post\">named himself &#8216;Techno-King&#8217;<\/a>, and the company&#8217;s CFO Zach Kirkhorn was dubbed &#8216;Master of the Coin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Musk\u2019s girlfriend and mother of his sixth child, singer Grimes, <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/grimes-sells-nft-collection-of-unreleased-music-for-6-million\">sold<\/a> a collection of NFTs featuring unreleased music for $6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on Telegram: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/forklogfeed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog Feed<\/a> \u2014 the full news feed, <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">ForkLog<\/a> \u2014 the most important news and polls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk has changed his mind about selling a techno-track about non-fungible tokens (NFTs).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1217,1213],"class_list":["post-39078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-elon-musk","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"39","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39080,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39078\/revisions\/39080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}