Posted on 11/03/2021 11:16:03 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
Are NFTs the next big thing for high-end whisky collectors?
Two entrepreneurs that were behind a record-breaking $2.3 million sale of a 1991 The Macallan cask earlier this month certainly think so.
The double-size cask, a first-fill sherry butt distilled at The Macallan, which currently holds about 600 bottles of 30-year-old whisky, was sold at auction. It included a digital asset from artist Trevor Jones called “The Angel’s Share,” which is an uncompressed scan of Jones’ oil painting as well as an animated component.
The sale was a partnership between Origin Protocol, a company that drops NFTs, one-of-a-kind digital assets that a person can buy or sell in the Ethereum blockchain, and Metacask, a marketplace for whisky cask NFTs. Origin was part of the $11.7 million sale for the musician 3LAU and the $760,000 on the Charlie Bit Me video, has worked with controversial YouTube star Jake Paul and recently brought on Paris Hilton as a strategic investor.
“The owner had gone to Bonhams and received a valuation for it until we can along and said let’s do this NFT,” Siriwardana said. “When you buy this NFT, you are now the owner of the cask. It’s a slightly different concept to what you find with art, where often the asset itself is the NFT. Here the NFT is also the contract that you own the cask.”
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It means I have a A Macallan Cask NFT thirst but a Wild Turkey budget.
There are about 25 shots in a bottle. so that is about $150 per shot. I can buy a 21 yr old Mccallan for about the same price
nice...
How’d you know I wanted to be on this list? lol
this saturday, I’m hosting a crypto and whisky dinner (and cigars....)
What Does This Mean For Whisky Collectors?
A whole lot of whisky that people will never drink...
Crazy.
“It means I have a A Macallan Cask NFT thirst but a Wild Turkey budget.”
My grandmother used to call it “a Champagne taste and a beer pocketbook.”
Plated?
Yeah, it’s my riff on that saying.
I wasn’t trying to “correct” you; it just made me think about Granny’s sayings.
understood. I get things a little mixed up. As grandpa used to say “I don’t remember as good as I once did, but I can remember once as good as I ever did”. or something like that.
The only thing I can do as good as I once did is piss people off without meaning to.
well, you’ve got that going for you. And nobody can take it away from you either.
“well, you’ve got that going for you. And nobody can take it away from you either.”
That is the funniest thing anyone has said to me in longer than I can remember.
In all fairness, I can only remember back to around lunchtime today, but still, really funny.
Wild Turk aint bad tho....and I like my 14-18 yo scotch.
You sure about that? Cuz Im thinkin more like 21 yo for greater than $500.
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