{"id":40913,"date":"2021-04-17T09:30:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T06:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=40913"},"modified":"2025-08-30T16:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T13:20:15","slug":"edward-snowden-sells-his-own-nft-for-5-5-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/edward-snowden-sells-his-own-nft-for-5-5-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Edward Snowden sells his own NFT for $5.5 million"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA employee Edward Snowden has sold his first non-fungible token (NFT) for 2,224 ETH \u2014 around $5.5 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">History made. \ud83c\udf10 Congratulations to Edward Snowden and the team at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreedomofPress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FreedomofPress<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Snowden?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Snowden<\/a>\u2019s genesis NFT, \u201cStay Free,\u201d was collected for 2,224 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%24ETH&#038;src=ctag&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">$ETH<\/a> (~$5.4 million USD) by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pleasrdao?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@pleasrdao<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/xaix2k?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@xaix2k<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jespow?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@jespow<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mondoir?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mondoir<\/a> for your homestretch bids.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bgp9rNneca\">https:\/\/t.co\/Bgp9rNneca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Foundation \ud83c\udf10 (@withFND) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/withFND\/status\/1383159184951181312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 16, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The token was sold on the Foundation platform to a user under the alias PleasrDAO. All proceeds will go to the Freedom of the Press Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2016 Snowden has served as president of an organization that advocates press freedom and opposes journalism that places the authorities\u2019 interests above those of the public.<\/p>\n<p>The NFT \u201cStay Free\u201d depicts a digital portrait of Snowden made from cuttings of documents related to a lawsuit alleging violations of U.S. law by the NSA.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Kyiv artists from the INTROVADERS <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/kyiv-artists-tokenise-dmitry-gordon\">tokenized<\/a> Dmitry Gordon.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier the cult catchphrase \u201cAnd this is good\u201d from the YouTube show \u201cThis is \u0445\u043e\u0440\u043e\u0448\u043e\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cult-catchphrase-from-this-is-good-to-be-sold-as-an-nft\">was put up for sale<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog\u2019s bitcoin news on our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former National Security Agency (NSA) and CIA employee Edward Snowden sold his first non-fungible token (NFT) for 2,224 ETH \u2014 around $5.5 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40914,"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":[1587,1213],"class_list":["post-40913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-edward-snowden","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"23","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40913","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=40913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40915,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40913\/revisions\/40915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}