Justin Bieber Purchased A Bored Ape NFT Worth $1.3 Million

Justin Bieber purchased a bored ape NFT worth $1.3 million or 500 ETH coins, becoming the latest celebrity to join the club so let’s read more in today’s latest cryptocurrency news.

Justin Bieber becomes the latest member of the Bored Ape Yacht Club and a proud owner of Ape #3001 which he spent 500 ETH for. Justin Bieber purchased a bored ape and joined the club of celebrities that bought NFTs over the past year. He is one of the most famous people on the planet and now he joined the famed Bored Ape Yacht Club.

The traits of the ape include a New Punk Blue background where about 1% of the apes have it and a Black T that 3% of the apes have, sad eyes with 6% rarity, and dark brown fur with 14% rarity. In the meantime, the Bored Ape Yacht Club collection’s floor price surpassed 100 ETH and continues to still be the most expensive collection on NFTs online. Other notable members include legendary tennis player Serena Williams and world-renowned rapper Eminem.

The award-winning rapper Eminem purchased Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT for 123.45 ETH and has since made the ape his profile picture on Twitter. In the meantime, he seems to have collected at least 15 NFTs so far on OpenSea under the name Shady Holdings. Eminem is one of the best-selling artists of all time having sold more than 220 million records across the world. He also is the only rapper to win an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song for “Lose Yourself” in the “8 Mile” movie. He also won plenty of American Music Awards and 15 Grammy awards.

Right before the Oscars, iconic rapper and Oscar winner for “Lose Yourself” back in 2003, Eminem partnered with Nifty Gateway unveiled his first NFT at Shady Con. The artist-born Marshall Mathers is the latest in a line of celebrities that are joining the NFT craze.

Also, Someone found a way to exploit the front-end of the most popular non-fungible token NFT marketplace OpenSea and the hacker went after members of the Bored Ape Yacht Club NFTs. Hackers attacked Bored ape NFT and PeckShieldAlert even alarmed of a front-end issue of OpenSea earlier today and revealed that the exploited had already gained 332 ETH worth about $750,000 at the time of writing.