{"id":55446,"date":"2022-01-01T15:29:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T13:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=55446"},"modified":"2025-09-04T01:26:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T22:26:55","slug":"eminem-buys-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-for-450000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/eminem-buys-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-for-450000\/","title":{"rendered":"Eminem buys Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for $450,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Eminem purchased an NFT from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection #9055 for 123.45 ETH (over $450,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"629\" src=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-01-v-15.19.32-1024x629.png\" alt=\"Eminem \u043a\u0443\u043f\u0438\u043b NFT Bored Ape Yacht Club \u0437\u0430 $450 000\" class=\"wp-image-160671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-01-v-15.19.32-1024x629.png 1024w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-01-v-15.19.32-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-01-v-15.19.32-768x472.png 768w, https:\/\/u1f987.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Snimok-ekrana-2022-01-01-v-15.19.32.png 1194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eminem?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">Eminem<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Eminem also updated his Twitter profile picture to the purchased image.<\/p>\n<p>The buyer was the account with the handle <a href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/Shady_Holdings\">Shady_Holdings<\/a> on the NFT marketplace OpenSea. Their wallet holds more than 40 tokens from various collections.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m living in a simulation. Thank you, Eminem, for buying my ape and joining the club,\u201d wrote the former NFT owner under the handle GeeGazza.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I\u2019m living in a simulation.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Eminem?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Eminem<\/a> for buying my ape and joining the club!<\/p>\n<p>Madness. Let me write a lyric in your next single \ud83e\udd23 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/myGNRmMLeD\">pic.twitter.com\/myGNRmMLeD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 GeeGazza \uea00 (@Gee__Gazza) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gee__Gazza\/status\/1477005759359733771?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the owner of the popular Miami nightclub and the E11EVEN Hotel and Residences condo complex \u2014 E11EVEN Partners \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/miami-nightclub-buys-bored-ape-yacht-club-nft-for-400000\">purchased an NFT from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection for 99 ETH<\/a> (about $396,000 at the time of the deal).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the luxury NFT marketplace UNXD, together with the GameFi project Decentraland <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/nft-marketplace-unxd-and-decentraland-to-host-metaverse-fashion-week\">announced Metaverse Fashion Week<\/a> in the metaverse.<\/p>\n<p>Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American rapper Eminem purchased an NFT from the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection #9055 for 123.45 ETH (over $450,000 at the time of writing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55447,"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":[1356,1213],"class_list":["post-55446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bored-ape-yacht-club","tag-nft"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"149","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55446","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=55446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55448,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55446\/revisions\/55448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}