Mike Winkelmann

We don't know if he read the article." But people paid much more than what they paid for that tweet.

Uh, one NFT was auctioned at Christie's, so congratulations to Mike Winkelmann, AKA Beeple, a digital artist who sold an NFT there for...

Paul, can we get a drum roll please?[drum roll] Yes, 69 million very real dollars.

And, uh-

Uh, most directly, why mess with this? Why have them? Well, it can be...

It's great if you're an artist.

If you're Beeple, of course you can absolutely understand why people are calling this an evolution in fine art collecting.

You can sell new stuff in a new way.

Good luck.

Beeple hit that real fast.

Beeple's turnaround time is like 12 hours.

Even sooner.

For those of you in podcast land, Beeple is a satirical artist who mostly covers crypto and also AI and tech on occasion.

and it is a picture of hunter and joe biden pulling off trump and jd vance masks sitting in the oval office pointing to a gilded frame introducing their newest meme coin laptop don't come for me so at any rate this this will be a sniped disastrous pump and dump um just like everything uh I don't believe that this is worth...

I mean, just don't even try to make the play.

I don't expect a single airdrop to come directly from, actually, I do expect one to come from Yuga.

I expect a check your wallets moment from ApeFest and a Beeple to be placed in.

Now, I hope it's only attendees.

Sorry, not sorry.

Absolutely.

Yeah, so the art in question is a digital sculpture called Diffuse Control by artist Beeple.

His real name is Mike Winkleman, and he was born in Fond du Lac and is currently based in South Carolina.

It's essentially three stacked boxes composed of 12 synchronized video screens.

here.

I want to get a hold of Beeple.

Have you been to his show?

Been to many of them, yes.

It was probably one of the 27 thoughts that's always happening in my, in my insane brain.

So yeah, his name is Beeple, not Boodle.

[laughs] And you won't actually be able to find the segments with the artist Boodles, because they've been taken down from The Tonight Show.

I wonder why.

Oh my God.

Beeple, I know you have one too.

[laughs] Goodbye.

This is funny.

Yeah, absolutely.

If you look at Beeple, he actually put out a daily a couple days ago, and it was this Robinhood, uh, Saves Crypto.

But in all seriousness, uh, we think the asset class is here to stay.

And so if you build great technology and you find use cases, customers will use it.