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Fake Banksy NFT sold through artist's website for £244k
A hacker has returned $336,000 to a British collector after he tricked him into buying a fake NFT advertised through the artist's official website.
A link to an online auction for the NFT was posted on a now-deleted page of banksy.co.uk.
The auction ended early after the man offered 90% more than rival bidders.
Banksy's team told the BBC "any Banksy NFT auctions are not affiliated with the artist in any shape or form".
With NFTs, artwork can be "tokenised" to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought and sold.
They do not generally give the buyer the actual artwork or its copyright.
The Banksy fan who got duped says he thought he was buying the world-famous graffiti artist's first ever NFT.
The man who is in his 30s and wanted to remain anonymous explained over Twitter direct messages that he suspects Banksy's site was hacked, and that he was the victim of an elaborate scam.
He says the hacker returned all the money except for the transaction fee of around £5,000 on Monday evening.
The prominent NFT collector uses the online name Pranksy said the whole episode was bizarre but that the hacker may have got scared.
"The refund was totally unexpected, I think the press coverage of the hack plus the fact that I had found the hacker and followed him on Twitter may have pushed him into a refund.
"I feel very lucky when a lot of others in a similar situation with less reach would not have had the same outcome," he said.
He says he was first alerted to the auction by an anonymous person in his community on the social network Discord on Monday morning.
Banksy's official site had a new page called NFT which included a link to an auction site selling an NFT called Great Redistribution of the Climate Change Disaster.
After entering a bid far above his rivals the auction was swiftly ended and the funds - in cryptocurrency Ethereum - were sent to the scammer.
'Feels like a hack'
"It does seem to be some hack of the site. I confirmed the URL on PC and mobile before bidding. I only made the bid because it was hosted on his site.
"When the bid was accepted I immediately thought it was probably fake," he said.
Banksy's team did not respond to questions about how his site was compromised but said: "The artist Banksy has not created any NFT artworks."
The buyer suspects the person who alerted him and others to the Banksy NFT sale may have been the hacker themselves.
'Irreversible'
Tom Robinson, from cryptocurrency analysis company Elliptic, confirmed there was nothing the buyer could do once he has placed his bid on the auction platform OpenSea.
"OpenSea is the eBay of NFTs - it allows anyone to sell digital art that they own, or have created themselves. Once a bid has been placed, the seller can accept and the cryptocurrency is irreversibly transferred," he said.
A hacker has returned $336,000 to a British collector after he tricked him into buying a fake NFT advertised through the artist's official website.
A link to an online auction for the NFT was posted on a now-deleted page of banksy.co.uk.
The auction ended early after the man offered 90% more than rival bidders.
Banksy's team told the BBC "any Banksy NFT auctions are not affiliated with the artist in any shape or form".
With NFTs, artwork can be "tokenised" to create a digital certificate of ownership that can be bought and sold.
They do not generally give the buyer the actual artwork or its copyright.
The Banksy fan who got duped says he thought he was buying the world-famous graffiti artist's first ever NFT.
The man who is in his 30s and wanted to remain anonymous explained over Twitter direct messages that he suspects Banksy's site was hacked, and that he was the victim of an elaborate scam.
He says the hacker returned all the money except for the transaction fee of around £5,000 on Monday evening.
The prominent NFT collector uses the online name Pranksy said the whole episode was bizarre but that the hacker may have got scared.
"The refund was totally unexpected, I think the press coverage of the hack plus the fact that I had found the hacker and followed him on Twitter may have pushed him into a refund.
"I feel very lucky when a lot of others in a similar situation with less reach would not have had the same outcome," he said.
He says he was first alerted to the auction by an anonymous person in his community on the social network Discord on Monday morning.
Banksy's official site had a new page called NFT which included a link to an auction site selling an NFT called Great Redistribution of the Climate Change Disaster.
After entering a bid far above his rivals the auction was swiftly ended and the funds - in cryptocurrency Ethereum - were sent to the scammer.
'Feels like a hack'
"It does seem to be some hack of the site. I confirmed the URL on PC and mobile before bidding. I only made the bid because it was hosted on his site.
"When the bid was accepted I immediately thought it was probably fake," he said.
Banksy's team did not respond to questions about how his site was compromised but said: "The artist Banksy has not created any NFT artworks."
The buyer suspects the person who alerted him and others to the Banksy NFT sale may have been the hacker themselves.
'Irreversible'
Tom Robinson, from cryptocurrency analysis company Elliptic, confirmed there was nothing the buyer could do once he has placed his bid on the auction platform OpenSea.
"OpenSea is the eBay of NFTs - it allows anyone to sell digital art that they own, or have created themselves. Once a bid has been placed, the seller can accept and the cryptocurrency is irreversibly transferred," he said.
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Moneta rilasciata pochi giorni fa che ha tra le cose interessanti un auto collect dei reward ogni 6 ore e il reward viene offerto in Cardano Ada.
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Any thoughts? -
Moneta rilasciata pochi giorni fa che ha tra le cose interessanti un auto collect dei reward ogni 6 ore e il reward viene offerto in Cardano Ada.
Che ne pensate?
EL SALVADOR HA ACQUISTATO 400 BITCOIN
El Salvador ha reso il Bitcoin la seconda valuta a ufficiale. Il 7 settembre la legge è entrata in vigore e sei milioni di salvadoregni si sono risvegliati in una “nuova era” del Paese, dove si possono persino pagare le tasse in Bitcoin. Nel corso della giornata, il paese ha acquistato 400 Bitcoin. Questo fenomeno ha incuriosito economisti e appassionati di criptovalute che studiano e valutano gli sviluppi di questa mossa finanziaria per comprenderne l’effettiva utilità o meno. Oltre ad approvare la legge, il Paese si è impegnato per rendere più facile la transazione con la criptovaluta: sono stati installati 200 bancomat Bitcoin che faciliteranno lo scambio della criptovaluta con il dollaro USA, finora la valuta ufficiale di El Salvador. L'adozione della moneta crittografica viene promossa attraverso l'app Chivo, un portafoglio digitale per tutti i salvadoregni che vorranno utilizzare il Bitcoin come moneta. Seguendo l'esempio di El Salvador, il Paraguay e Cuba ha reso pubblici i piani per l'utilizzo della criptovaluta come moneta a corso legale.
Fonte: Nayib Bukele, Twitter, 2021
Credit foto: Wikimedia – Own work, ridimensionata e ritagliata, 4000x2570px, Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
El Salvador ha reso il Bitcoin la seconda valuta a ufficiale. Il 7 settembre la legge è entrata in vigore e sei milioni di salvadoregni si sono risvegliati in una “nuova era” del Paese, dove si possono persino pagare le tasse in Bitcoin. Nel corso della giornata, il paese ha acquistato 400 Bitcoin. Questo fenomeno ha incuriosito economisti e appassionati di criptovalute che studiano e valutano gli sviluppi di questa mossa finanziaria per comprenderne l’effettiva utilità o meno. Oltre ad approvare la legge, il Paese si è impegnato per rendere più facile la transazione con la criptovaluta: sono stati installati 200 bancomat Bitcoin che faciliteranno lo scambio della criptovaluta con il dollaro USA, finora la valuta ufficiale di El Salvador. L'adozione della moneta crittografica viene promossa attraverso l'app Chivo, un portafoglio digitale per tutti i salvadoregni che vorranno utilizzare il Bitcoin come moneta. Seguendo l'esempio di El Salvador, il Paraguay e Cuba ha reso pubblici i piani per l'utilizzo della criptovaluta come moneta a corso legale.
Fonte: Nayib Bukele, Twitter, 2021
Credit foto: Wikimedia – Own work, ridimensionata e ritagliata, 4000x2570px, Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)
El Salvador e' da tenere sotto controllo e comunque il mondo Crypto e' mooooooooooooooolto interessante
ma chi vuoi che faccia pagamenti reali in bitcoin? :D
quanto sono 400 bitcoin? sono del tutto ignorante in materia
il Paese si è impegnato per rendere più facile la transazione con la criptovaluta: sono stati installati 200 bancomat Bitcoin che faciliteranno lo scambio della criptovaluta con il dollaro USA, finora la valuta ufficiale di El Salvador.
nonno Joe e gli speculatori di wall street hanno stappato una bottiglia di champagne
un paio di semestri di estrema e cieca fiducia al paese poi...taaacccccc
nonno Joe e gli speculatori di wall street hanno stappato una bottiglia di champagne
un paio di semestri di estrema e cieca fiducia al paese poi...taaacccccc
ma chi vuoi che faccia pagamenti reali in bitcoin? :D
LOL, spostati dall'Italia e troverai chi lo fa. Oppure troverai tantissimi ATM che ti convertono BTC in cash :)
LOL, spostati dall'Italia e troverai chi lo fa. Oppure troverai tantissimi ATM che ti convertono BTC in cash :)