A crypto whale loses $150,000 in a joke gone awry.
A crypto whale and well-known NFT collector going by the alias Franklin has just suffered a loss of around $150,000 due to a joke that went awry online. Franklin is the proud owner of a sizeable amount of Ethereum, the world's second-largest cryptocurrency behind Bitcoin, as well as 58 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) from the Bored Ape Yacht Club, which is widely regarded as one of the most successful NFT ventures ever created.
The bid to buy an NFT address that was created on the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) system was the initial step toward the catastrophic failure of the cryptocurrency. You might have noticed that an increasing number of users are using Instagram and Twitter names that finish in. eth or. not. This is because cryptocurrency is becoming increasingly popular. This is most li...