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A doomsday-themed Solana NFT task is looking to merchantability 100,000 non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to bargain a Cold War-era atomic bunker successful Rutland, England.
Dead Bruv, the creators of the narrative-driven NFT task Meatbags, program to mint 100,000 NFTs, with Meatbags holders being airdropped 10,000. The the remainder volition beryllium sold disconnected starting April 21, starting astatine $14 a pop, according to a station connected the Meatbags X account.
Holders volition summation introduction into a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO), called the Billionaire Bunker Club, a “fully decentralized, community-governed real-world plus onchain,” which volition ballot connected what happens with the bunker if the effort to bargain it is successful.
Source: MeatbagsA fewer ideas floated by the NFT project see a “members-only endurance edifice with Doomsday DJ,” a determination to clasp end-of-the-world festivals, oregon “an Airbnb with caviar tastings and canned legume country service.”
UK online auctioneer SDL Property Auctions has the bunker Dead Bruv is hoping to bargain listed for a usher terms of 650,000 British pounds ($862,257), and an auction day scheduled for April 24.
The existent property listing says the bunker is located connected 1.4 acres adjacent a erstwhile reservoir and already has the applicable permissions for the winning bidder to person it into a house.
The bunker was built successful 1960 to enactment arsenic a monitoring station during the Cold War and was decommissioned successful 1968. It was 1 of 1,500 tasked with reporting immoderate atomic bursts and monitoring immoderate radioactive fallout, according to SDL Property Auctions.
Cointelegraph contacted SDL Property Auctions for comment.
Nuclear bunker bargain began arsenic a joke
Robert, the pseudonymous co-founder of Dead Bruv, said successful an April 18 connection to X that the inaugural was astir trying to “make NFTs amusive again” and was sparked by a gag that turned into a “lightbulb moment.”
“There’s not overmuch to comparison this to, but these are the kinds of things that made maine autumn successful emotion with NFTs successful the archetypal place. Taking risks. Getting creative. Pushing the boundaries of what this tech tin bash to make thing wholly new, absurd, and incredible,” helium said.
“When thing comes from a spot of, this is wholly insane, we gotta bash it, that’s erstwhile I cognize we’re onto something,” Robert added.
Source: RobertThis isn’t the archetypal clip a DOA has turned to crowdfunding to bargain an costly item. ConstitutionDAO managed to rise astir $47 cardinal successful Ether (ETH) successful 2021 to acquisition an original transcript of the United States Constitution, which was going nether the hammer astatine auctioneer Sotheby’s.
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Ultimately, they were unsuccessful. The winning bid was $43.2 million, and the DAO was constricted to a bid of $43 cardinal by Sotheby’s to origin successful taxes and the costs required to protect, insure and determination the Constitution.
Meanwhile, LinksDAO secured the winning bid to acquisition Scotland-based Spey Bay Golf Club successful May 2023. The DAO claims it added the US-based Hillcrest Country Club to its holdings successful February.
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