Cryptocurrency

Tweet by DavidBowieReal

2022-09-06 [vendor] David Bowie NFT announcement [chain] ethereum
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Blockchain(s) Ethereum

Incident Details

The latest entry in “group launches NFTs, fans hate it” comes from the David Bowie estate, who decided that “Bowie on the Blockchain” would be a cool idea to raise money for charity.A tweet from OpenSea announcing the project received some positive replies, and a lot of other NFT projects trying to promote Bowie-themed NFTs they’d included in their collections. However, the tweet from David Bowie Twitter account seemed to be received almost universally negatively, with many commenters writing that they wished the estate would just raise money for charity without getting into NFTs, and others writing that they didn’t think Bowie would have supported NFTs.On September 10, the account announced that “Out of respect for the people of the UK and Queen Elizabeth II, we will be postponing the ‘Bowie on the Blockchain’ sale. We will update soon.”

Technical Details

Vendor / Product
David Bowie NFT announcement

Timeline

  1. 2022-09-06 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-09-06 Publicly disclosed