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A Macallan Cask NFT Sold For $2.3 Million. What Does This Mean For Whisky Collectors?
Forbes ^ | Oct 31, 2021 | Gina Pace

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: art; blockchain; godsgravesglyphs; macallan; ntf; oenology; whisky; zymurgy
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1 posted on 11/03/2021 11:16:03 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
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To: algore; aMorePerfectUnion; amorphous; Andyman; ARGLOCKGUY; abishai; battletank; ...

PING!

What in amazing world...

Welcome Whisky experts.


2 posted on 11/03/2021 11:16:51 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Much more at linky.

Forbes must be excerpted and cannot contain more than 300 words.


3 posted on 11/03/2021 11:17:31 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I would have jumped in on this cask but I heard silver plated straws weren’t included. Cheers!


4 posted on 11/03/2021 11:18:24 AM PDT by glennaro (Although I don't believe there are big conspiracies, neither do I believe there are big coincidences)
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
For one thing, it screws up Pat Travers' show.

5 posted on 11/03/2021 11:23:50 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What's Noam's FR nick?)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

For later.

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6 posted on 11/03/2021 11:25:05 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

Still have no idea what an NFT is.


7 posted on 11/03/2021 11:25:50 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I had an open house party when we bought our large home 12 years ago. A lot of people brough a lot of nice bottles of assorted beverages, so I can be forgiven for not noticing that one of the boxes got pushed o the back of a lower cabinet in my bar. Fast forward to last year as I was cleaning out the bar getting ready to list the house for sale and there in the back was the unopened box with a bottle of Macallan 18 from a decade ago that now had another 10+ years tacked on it. Needless to say it was like the nectar of the Gods.


8 posted on 11/03/2021 11:26:09 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: Menehune56

This may help…

https://medium.com/cortexlabs/what-is-ntf-da442a7d2728


9 posted on 11/03/2021 11:27:05 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (Fraud vitiates everything ᡕᠵ᠊ᡃ࡚ࠢ࠘ ⸝່ࠡࠣ᠊߯᠆ࠣ࠘ᡁࠣ࠘᠊᠊ࠢ࠘𐡏⁻ )
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To: glennaro

For what you’d pay you should get sterling.


10 posted on 11/03/2021 11:27:48 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
here's one for free...


11 posted on 11/03/2021 11:28:41 AM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: ElkGroveDan

“hat now had another 10+ years tacked on it.”

Whiskey does not age after bottling.


12 posted on 11/03/2021 11:29:24 AM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

What does it mean for whisky collectors? it means they have too much money.


13 posted on 11/03/2021 11:31:34 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
What a drag it is getting old...

I read $2.3 million sale of a 1991 The Macallan cask and thought to myself "what's the big deal, it's not that old to be worth that much?"

Then I read The double-size cask ... which currently holds about 600 bottles of 30-year-old whisky and I was not-so-gently reminded of my own age...

14 posted on 11/03/2021 11:33:02 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: TexasGator

I know. It just added another sparkle to the suprise of finding it.


15 posted on 11/03/2021 11:38:34 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (My tagline is in the shop.)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

I’d rather have a boat, 600 bottles of whiskey, and a color print of dogs playing poker for $2.3 million. And still plenty of money left for gas. And to play poker with the dogs.


16 posted on 11/03/2021 11:54:15 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Menehune56
Still have no idea what an NFT is

It's a certificate of authenticity, except in digital form. Really quite stupid if you ask me. It is not meaningfully different than any other entry on a blockchain ledger.

Always open to corrections or clarifications.

17 posted on 11/03/2021 11:56:01 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: aMorePerfectUnion

The import tax caused high prices then they stopped the tax but prices haven’t come down much. My favorite Scotch is still $500.


18 posted on 11/03/2021 11:56:07 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Menehune56
Still have no idea what an NFT is.

Nonfungible token. I had to look it up. Never use an acronym without defining it the first time.

19 posted on 11/03/2021 12:00:12 PM PDT by tnlibertarian
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To: Chode

Looks like a 4-year-old’s “art”.


20 posted on 11/03/2021 12:05:37 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
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