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Melania Trump suspected of having bought her own portrait in NFT

2022-02-14T17:00:28.959Z


Amazing transactions were seen in January, during the last digital sale organized by the former first lady of the United States.


And Melania Trump, in love with her NFT in the hat, became her own patron.

According to the American press, the former first lady of the United States and wife of former American president Donald Trump would have bought herself, at the sale price, the non-fungible token (the

"non-fungible tokens"

, or NFT) of one of his works.

A virtual sleight of hand that has not gone unnoticed.

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The strange virtual operation dates back to last month.

On January 11, Melania Trump organized her second NFT sale online.

These traceable, certified and tamper-proof digital objects, based on the same technology as cryptocurrencies, form a market as lucrative as it is speculative, a goldmine for many artists as well as for various companies, as well as for personalities such as the former first lady.

Dedicated to an illustration of his eyes painted by the Frenchman Marc-Antoine Coulon, the first sale went off without a hitch.

And a second date immediately took shape.

The NFT which was worth 1800 solanas.

It is one of three items in the Head of State Collection put up for sale in January by the former first lady.

Office of Melania Trump

Contrary to the limited editions of her cobalt gaze, collectors could this time compete for a unique NFT of Melania Trump's profile.

Capital accessory of the scene, and of the sale, a large Hervé Pierre hat capped the first lady, immortalized during the official visit of Emmanuel Macron to the White House, in April 2018. For good measure, the NFT was accompanied by two physical objects: the original watercolor autographed by Melania Trump and the artist, as well as the hat in question, also signed.

Total sale price: 1800 solanas.

That is between 159,000 and 221,000 euros on average, depending on the more or less stable course of the cryptocurrency.

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Capped at the virtual post

But precisely, the price of solana twisted at the time of the capital sale organized by Melania Trump.

Worth around 170 dollars (150 euros) at the time of the announcement, the solana had thus plunged to 95 dollars (84 euros) at the end of the auction.

According to the

New York Times

, which attended the virtual sale, the buyer got away with it for the equivalent of around $170,000.

A case, then.

But a strange affair, as noted by our American colleagues from

Vice

.

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The Sandbox

With the help of a consultant, the journalists managed to find the route of the payment made online, during the purchase of the collection headed by Melania Trump.

Because unlike the velvety salons of auction rooms and the low masses of galleries, all exchanges are public and transparent on the block chain (

“blockchain”

) where the transactions are carried out.

An eye trained to read the technical hieroglyphs of the Solana platform thus observes that the 1800 solanas used for the purchase of the NFT had been paid to the lucky person by the creator account of the same NFT.

Or Melania Trump and her team.

How to explain it?

Joined by our colleagues, the cabinet of Melania Trump did not wish to comment in detail on the subject.

"The transaction was carried out on behalf of a third party"

, was satisfied to answer a press release, suggesting that the anonymous buyer was not familiar with cryptocurrencies.

An explanation

“weird, but plausible”

, according to the consultant of

Vice

, who is still surprised by a baroque procedure, if not suspicious, and the use of an intermediary.

In either case,

"part"

of the money raised by Melania Trump's NFTs will be donated to works for children in homes.

Source: lefigaro

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