Epitome: Yeh, I got NFTs…
By Elliott Richardson and Craig Daveson in Epitome on Thursday, 13th January 2022 at 10:40am
Business | Nice F***** Tennis balls! Amirite? To cut to the chase, the Australian Open has decided to sell its tennis balls to be used in the grand slam tournament as NFTs for 0.067 Ethereum.
Run from it, dread it, crypto arrives all the same according to John Davidson from The Fin. He states that no one has decided to virtually slice and dice their centre court into squares and sell them as NFTs either, which is also what the AusOpen will be doing. Tennis Australia, aside from bumbling around with the federal government on Novak Djokovic’s visa, has gone ahead and developed a full scale replica of Rod Laver Arena which is hosted on Decentraland. TA even has a Metaverse and NFT Project Manager who goes by the name of Ridley Plummer!
He is very much a real person and he tells Davidson ...
Run from it, dread it, crypto arrives all the same according to John Davidson from The Fin. He states that no one has decided to virtually slice and dice their centre court into squares and sell them as NFTs either, which is also what the AusOpen will be doing. Tennis Australia, aside from bumbling around with the federal government on Novak Djokovic’s visa, has gone ahead and developed a full scale replica of Rod Laver Arena which is hosted on Decentraland. TA even has a Metaverse and NFT Project Manager who goes by the name of Ridley Plummer!
He is very much a real person and he tells Davidson ...
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