John Cleese ‘has a bridge to sell you’, suggests $69,346,250.50 price to top Beeple's virtual art record
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- News link: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2021/03/22/john_cleese_non_fungible_token/
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The Monty Python member took to Twitter with his offer, telling viewers “You and me we get it. Our parents laugh at non-refundable tokens and cryptic currencies. ‘It can’t go on the wall!’ they say. ‘Is the world ending?!’ No, hardly.”
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The Tweet linked to the [2]auction of a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge, attributed to “The_Unnamed_Artist_John_Cleese”.
The owner profile for that entity describes it as “A young, unknown artist (or collective of artists) with a firm grasp of Cryptic Currencies and Non Floodable Tokens.”
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We can't avoid it any longer. Here's a story about the NFT mania... aka someone bought a JPEG for $69m in Ether [4]READ MORE
Cleese says the artwork represents a bridge to the future, adding “a bridge is about trust.”
“And if you believe that, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.”
Hello! It is time you meet my alter ego "Unnamed Artist" I'm delighted to offer you the opportunity of a lifetime. I'm selling my 1st NFT. Though bidding starts at 100.00, you can “BUY IT NOW” for 69,346,250.50! [5]https://t.co/Vuyx4trvPE [6]pic.twitter.com/aC4oSVfGHF — John Cleese (@JohnCleese) [7]March 19, 2021
Cleese has suggested a price of $69,346,250.50, fifty cents more than the record price paid for a work titled “Everydays: The First 5000 Days" by an artist known as “Beeple”.
At the time of writing, Not-John-Cleese’s work had attracted a bid of $35,671.20. And here it is:
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John Cleese's Brooklyn Bridge. Click to enlarge
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The Register is considering a bid but as we prefer to deal in real money, may have to revive our infamous [10]invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall to pay for the artwork. ®
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[4] https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/12/beeple_nft_sold/
[5] https://t.co/Vuyx4trvPE
[6] https://t.co/aC4oSVfGHF
[7] https://twitter.com/JohnCleese/status/1372944852325789704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
[8] https://regmedia.co.uk/2021/03/22/john_cleese_nft.jpg
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[10] https://www.theregister.com/2017/04/01/invisible_bitcoin_paywall/
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Cleese has been a liability for a while. A Brexit voting racist who lives in the Caribbean.
Many fools will let him trade off past glories forty years ago, but what has he done for you lately?
This ipad scrawl is further useless nonsense. No value therein.
Well, winding up remainers for a start.
Ah, so that's where all the down votes are coming from - deluded Brexiteers!
Are there any other sort?
I was a remainer, I downvoted you for you lack of humour and for slagging off John Cleese is is still funny and definitely more entertaining than you.
My lack of sense of humour?
I'm sorry, this is the slightly interesting discussion and comedic symbolism department, you're looking for the ranting Daily Mail argument department, which if I remember correctly, was moved from the office next to the canteen, because it was putting people off of their food, and is now located in the car park next to the recycling bins.
Seeing as you're going that way, would you mind dropping off some hackneyed stereotypes in the bins, for me, there's a good fellow.
Agreed
He's a total prick
Re: Agreed
It's sad the level of political discourse in this country now.
A national treasure becomes "a prick" because he voted differently than you would have.
Hopefully by the time you are old enough to vote you will have matured.
Pint for your 18th birthday, which I'm hoping is a long way off. If you haven't got limited years as an excuse then that's just sad.
Re: Agreed
Voting or thinking differently to me, a prick does not make.
However, when the result of said vote has such massive and sweeping ramifications that will affect every single person in the entire country for decades to come, then I think there is some valid cause for resentment and animosity. Doubly so when said voter doesn't even live in the UK or the EU anymore.
Re: Agreed
"Voting or thinking differently is fine, as long as it doesn't result in an outcome I disagree with."
Grow up.
Re: Agreed
not only a 'prick', but also part-censored in the UK. In this day and age of everything causing offense, the beeb and others decided to disappear him, so to speak, because they want to be at the forefront of a New Revolution and waving the Banner of The Right Cause. So I had no choice really, to make a point and I immediately forced my offspring to watch Cleese hailing the Germans episode, and then, full 3 series of Little Britain for good measure. Sure, I'm a bloody foreigner and I voted remain, but I don't care if Cleese is a rasist and / or a bigot. He might be, well, whatever, I don't need to be pals with him. But, in his artistic career, he's unbeatable. I wish he could create freely nowadays, mocking what's happening nowadays. But he'd be de-platformed from any platform before he'd even start...
Racist?
Do they print you people out at a factory or something?
Does he still need money for that divorce?
I suppose he will 'always' need money for THAT divorce, I think. But, though I LOVE him for his GENIUS, for quite some time I've had this vague suspicion that off-screen / in private life he might be a completely different (read: very NASTY) person. Perhaps he expected his 2nd American wife to put up with it and he found his match?
Does it (bit-)rot?
I'd pay major money if that drawing would degrade automatically with bit-rot. Of course, every copy will degrade in a unique and random way. Then, at least, there would be some value somewhere. Maybe it can be valued at 1 cpp (*) for the creator's effort. That means that simple upscaling makes this stuff quadratically more valuable. Mine is the one with 1eINF by 1eINF pixels using the latest finite deflate algorithm to keep the size down and simultaneously losing a few bits per second too..
(*) cpp: Cent Per Pixel
My lawyers will be in touch
This Cleese bloke has no right to sell anything to do with my bridge, I added it to my portfolio of landmarks some years ago, shortly after buying the Arc de Triomphe and one leg of the Eiffel Tower (there was a lot of interest in it).
Blockchain for blockchain
My gigabit fiber and RAID worked their asses off running STORJ for months and they got 36.18737748 tokens for their efforts. It must be worth a fortune. I'll take two of those sketches.
Well, it might not go for 69m, but
He is still up at $35,826.60
Bridge to NI
Mr Cleese, it's No. 10 on the line wanting to know how much will you charge for a Bridge to Northern Ireland, and how much to build bridges with Wales and Scotland, as the Union is looking a bit shaky these days.
Does he still need money for that divorce?
Bless you Mr Cleese for your life time of satire. We salute you.