{"id":51310,"date":"2021-10-16T16:07:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-16T13:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=51310"},"modified":"2025-09-02T22:59:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T19:59:49","slug":"cryptopunk-6046-owner-refuses-to-sell-for-2500-eth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/cryptopunk-6046-owner-refuses-to-sell-for-2500-eth\/","title":{"rendered":"CryptoPunk #6046 owner refuses to sell for 2,500 ETH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of a non-fungible token (NFT) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.larvalabs.com\/cryptopunks\/details\/6046\">CryptoPunk #6046<\/a> declined an offer to sell it for 2,500 ETH ($9.49 million at the time of the bid).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why I rejected a 2500 ETH ($9.5M USD ) offer from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/poapxyz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@poapxyz<\/a> on CryptoPunk #6046<\/p>\n<p>This could have been the largest ever on-chain NFT sale in USD, but I chose to reject the offer.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the story and why \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zeURo4C5z6\">pic.twitter.com\/zeURo4C5z6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 richerd (@richerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richerd\/status\/1449187165875826693?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If successful, the deal would have been the largest sale in the CryptoPunks NFT history.<\/p>\n<p>On October 15, the token&#8217;s owner, who goes by Richerd, wrote on Twitter that if 10,000 unique owners of 10,000 NFTs did not want to sell them, each NFT would become priceless.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Mate \u2014 everyone has a price.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josef Rakich (@ImJosefRakich) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImJosefRakich\/status\/1448837226587033601?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>He was told that \u201ceverything has a price.\u201d However Richerd said that his \u201cpunk\u201d is not for sale regardless of the offer.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My punk is not for sale. Don\u2019t care what anyone offers me.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 richerd (@richerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richerd\/status\/1448839467318407172?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 15, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After that, he was offered 2,500 ETH. Richerd declined.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cMy identity, together with the identities of other iconic punks and apes, has value beyond NFTs. We have our own brands, [\u2026] and this has value. Because I value personal branding and identity, I found it easy to refuse,\u201d wrote the owner of CryptoPunk #6046.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I have huge conviction in the NFT space and in Punks. When it comes to NFTs space I think very long term. <\/p>\n<p>To me, my brand, identity, and what I\u2019m building in the NFT space will be way more valuable in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 richerd (@richerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richerd\/status\/1449187174318895105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In response to suspicions of a scheme, Richerd noted that he does not know the user who placed the 2,500 ETH bid. They reportedly corresponded, but the token\u2019s owner did not know about the offer beforehand.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">For those asking. I do not know <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/worthalter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@worthalter<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HakbCOT6JY\">https:\/\/t.co\/HakbCOT6JY<\/a> who placed the bid.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve had an email exchange and have mutual respect for each others companies, but I had no knowledge of the bid ahead of time and was free to accept the 2500 ETH offer if I chose.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 richerd (@richerd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/richerd\/status\/1449187177070350337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>According to The Block, over the past three months the average price of CryptoPunks tokens rose more than sevenfold, from $61,760 to $458,750.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.theblockcrypto.com\/data\/nft-non-fungible-tokens\/art-collectibles\/average-price-of-an-art-and-collectibles-nft-sale\/embed\" title=\"Average Price of an Art and Collectibles NFT Sale\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In August, the NFT CryptoPunk <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-cryptopunk-sold-for-under-0-01-due-to-an-error-winner-nets-over-75000\"> sold for less than $0.01 due to a bug<\/a>. The winner walked away with more than $75,000.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"\u201c_blank\u201d\" rel=\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The owner of NFT CryptoPunk #6046 declined an offer to sell it for 2,500 ETH ($9.49 million at the time of the bid).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51311,"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":[1432,1213],"class_list":["post-51310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-cryptopunks","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51310","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=51310"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51312,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51310\/revisions\/51312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}