{"id":188537,"date":"2021-02-25T09:08:42","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T06:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/meme-pioneer-launches-nft-lolcats-on-opensea\/"},"modified":"2021-02-25T09:08:42","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T06:08:42","slug":"meme-pioneer-launches-nft-lolcats-on-opensea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/meme-pioneer-launches-nft-lolcats-on-opensea\/","title":{"rendered":"# Meme pioneer launches NFT lolcats on OpenSea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong># Meme pioneer launches NFT lolcats on OpenSea <\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDIvZWY1MTgyNGUtNTk2MS00YmE3LTg5NDMtYmFhOTE4ZjM5ZTdhLmpwZw==.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"post-content\" data-v-5a136f3a>The original \u201cI Can Has Cheezburger?\u201d meme has become the latest symbol of popular culture to be immortalized as an NFT.<\/p>\n<p>The meme\u2019s creator, Eric Nakagawa, announced his foray into a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">series<\/a> of lolcat NFTs on Feb. 23. \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/opensea.io\/assets\/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e\/37762811133555613839122564154138612562808368876173595360021569553728584810497\">Happy Cat<\/a>\u201d \u2014 the crown jewel of Nakgawa\u2019s NFT release \u2014 is being auctioned on NFT marketplace OpenSea, with the highest bid currently sitting at 0.25 ETH.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cool to see all the most important internet history becoming NFTs <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EclycEXupY\">https:\/\/t.co\/EclycEXupY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Micah Baldwin (@micah) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/micah\/status\/1363917438283227137?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>The 10 piece series, titled \u201cNo Fries Today,\u201d comprises early lolcat memes and meme-inspired artwork. Some proceeds of the sales will be donated to charitable organizations, including the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the Internet Archive, and the World Wildlife Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Each NFT includes the backstory explaining how the meme it represents was originally created, with Nakagawa stating he exhumed image files from his \u201cancient personal archive\u201d for the series. <\/p>\n<p>While Nakagawa tells Cointelegraph that he \u201cdefinitely jumped the gun on H<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>y Cat,\u201d he says he has a couple of other collections rearing to be released.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What if NFT but lolcats? <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/56T1H8voT3\">https:\/\/t.co\/56T1H8voT3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eric Nakagawa  (@ericnakagawa) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ericnakagawa\/status\/1364379907665485825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>NFTs have been on a tear during 2021, pulling $60 million in daily sales on Feb. 23, with many popular tokens drawing inspiration from well-known memes..<\/p>\n<p>A NFT version of \u201cNyan Cat\u201d \u2014 the heavily memed video of a flying toaster-shaped feline \u2014<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/22\/business\/nft-nba-top-shot-crypto.html?smid=tw-share\"> sold<\/a> on Feb. 21 for nearly $580,000, on the Foundation marketplace app.<\/p>\n<p>In January, American collectibles giant <em>Topps<\/em> released a series of caricatures based on a meme-able picture of Bernie Sanders, selling 8,876 packs of NFT cards over a three day sale.<\/p>\n<p>Nakagawa is no stranger to cryptocurrency, currently working as head of Open Source in the Blockchain department of Novi Financial \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> subsidiary overseeing development of its crypto asset project, Diem.<\/p>\n<p>After co-founding the popular picture sharing website<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/icanhas.cheezburger.com\/\"> icanhascheezburger.com<\/a> in 2007, he briefly joined Ripple Labs as Director of Growth in 2013, before taking a position as Startup Outreach at the Dogecoin Foundation the following year. <\/p>\n<p>While working with Dogecoin, Nakagawa organized \u201cdoge4water,\u201d a fundraiser that collected 40 million DOGE for a Kenya-based charity \u2014 worth $33,000 at the time.<\/p>\n<p><template data-name=\"subscription_form\" data-type=\"consulting_newsletter\"><\/template><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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The meme\u2019s creator, Eric Nakagawa, announced his foray into a series of lolcat NFTs on Feb. 23. \u201cHappy Cat\u201d \u2014 the crown jewel of Nakgawa\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/1200_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjEtMDIvZWY1MTgyNGUtNTk2MS00YmE3LTg5NDMtYmFhOTE4ZjM5ZTdhLmpwZw==.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74894,77892,86883,95118,28433,4974,86389,4965],"class_list":["post-188537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-blockchain","tag-crypto-collectibles","tag-dogecoin","tag-nft","tag-charity","tag-facebook","tag-marketplace","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}