BREAKDOWN: The US Government Sold a Wu-Tang Album to a DAO for $4M
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 24 October 2021
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
If you think DAOs aren’t going to be a thing, listen to this.
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On today’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW tells the story of PleasrDAO buying a one-of-a-kind hip hop album, and what it means that the U.S. government is interacting with this new type of collective. He also reads:
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| 1:12.3 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, October 24th, and that means it's time for Long Reads Sunday. |
| 1:19.4 | And today we have a fun one for you guys. So, our story starts in 2015. Well, really, it starts in the seven years before 2015 as one of hip-hop's most |
| 1:30.9 | legendary ensembles secretly recorded an album that they called Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. |
| 1:38.3 | Yes, of course, I'm speaking of the Wu Tang Clan. So they had secretly been recording this |
| 1:43.9 | album for seven years, and in |
| 1:45.0 | 2015, instead of releasing it as normal, they held an auction. There would be only one copy of this |
| 1:52.4 | album, and it was going to be auctioned off. Now at the time, there were two very strong takes on this. |
| 1:58.0 | The first held that this was some bullshit elitist art stunt. The second was that it |
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