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Nifty News: BAYC hodler loses 100 ETH in ‘joke’ domain sale gone wrong

A major Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) nonfungible token (NFT) hodler lost 100 Ether (ETH), worth $150,000, as a result of a joke bid on his own registered Ethereum Name Service (ENS) domain. The NFT whale, who owns 57 BAYC NFTs and goes by franklinisbored on Twitter, minted the ENS domain “stop-doing-fake-bids-its-honestly-lame-my-guy.eth” using an alternate wallet on Wednesday. The move was a part of a meme discussed with other NFT collectors in the community, in which he was attempting to trigger the EnsBidsBot account to tweet about a hefty 100 ETH bid on an ENS domain, essentially to mock the purpose of such Twitter accounts. What phrase or meme do you want me to have the ens bot tweet out as a .eth address with a 100 WETH bid? Lol I would have to mint the ENS address myself too. — Frank...