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  • Pranksy: Inside the anonymous life of an NFT legend — NFT Collector
    Cointelegraph.com - 14:30 May 15, 2025
    Legendary NFT Collector Pranksy has traded Bored Apes with Gwyneth Paltrow and flipped a Zombie CryptoPunk for a $1.2M profit inside a day. OG collector Pranksy is one of the most prolific figures in the NFT space, yet remains one of cryptos greatest mysteries, with his true identity still unknown. Starting with just $600 worth of ETH in 2017 (incredibly he’s never had to buy any more ETH with fiat) Pranksy cut his teeth with the explosion of CryptoKitties and quickly built up a stack of ETH which he relentlessly poured back into the ecosystem, being dubbed the “King of the Mint” by the time NFT mania truly hit in 2020-21.A key figure in popularizing Bored Ape Yacht Club, some of his trades have become legendary. On September 4, 2021, he purchased a Zombie CryptoPunk #6275 for 1,000 ETH ($3.89M) and sold it later that same day for 1,320 ETH ($5.12mil) a casual $1.23 million profit in 24 hours. Today, he still has more than 45,000 NFTs in his primary wallet, pranksy.eth, with Avastars and CyberBrokers two of h...
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