THE HASH: APE Rises and Falls as Musk Teases Twitter Profile Picture Change
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🗓️ 4 May 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The most valuable crypto stories for Wednesday, May 4, 2022.
"The Hash" hosts discuss the dramatic buying and selling frenzies of ApeCoin to the first-quarter financial results of mining company Marathon Digital and software company MicroStrategy, which holds a big stash of bitcoin in its reserves.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the hash podcast. |
| 0:09.7 | Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the Metaverse, Web3, and more, |
| 0:14.6 | with stories that matter to the crypto world, all on the hash for your ears. |
| 0:20.4 | You're listening to the Coin Desk Podcast Network. |
| 0:26.5 | Hi there. |
| 0:27.8 | Welcome to the hash. |
| 0:29.5 | May the fourth be with you. |
| 0:31.6 | We are here to talk about crypto news, not Star Wars stuff. |
| 0:35.7 | I'm Zach Seward. |
| 0:36.5 | I'm joined today by George Calutus, Jen Sennassie, |
| 0:39.2 | and Will Foxley. We're going to get this thing going, starting with Jen. What is up? |
| 0:43.9 | Okay, so it's May the 4th, so I think it's like only fitting we talk about the meme king himself, |
| 0:48.8 | Elon Musk. So he changed his profile picture to a collage of Bored Ape NFTs that was made for the Sotheby's |
| 0:55.6 | 101 Bored Apes auction last year and Twitter is divided. |
| 1:01.0 | So some people think that Elon is trolling NFT owners and others think that he's teasing his |
| 1:05.9 | entrance into the NFD space. |
| 1:08.2 | Michael Buhana, who is the co-head of digital art at Sotheby's, tweeted, |
| 1:12.7 | as much as I admire your work, I'd like you to remove your PFP that I created for our Sotheby's |
| 1:18.5 | sale, or you credit me, happy to send you the original file minted with the buyer approval. |
| 1:25.3 | George, I'm going to toss it to you first. What do you think Elon is up to? |
| 1:29.6 | I don't think it should be divided at all. |
| 1:33.1 | Elon is clearly sort of making fun of NFTs here in JPEG NFTs. |
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