Crypto Dev Says He’s Spending $500,000 on a Statue of Elon Musk’s Head on a Goat’s Body

Between Bitcoin-themed superspreader events and cringey branded NFT’s, these inside the crypto neighborhood have set a excessive bar for devising the worst methods to hawk their forex of alternative. But this week, the creators of an Elon Musk-themed cryptocurrency dubbed the “Elon Goat Token” (sure, that’s actually what it’s called) got here up with a promotional marketing campaign that may have simply blown these different concepts out of the water. It’s a statue that includes Elon Musk’s expressionless face on a goat’s physique, and it seems… precisely such as you’d suppose it might.

“At every crucial point in human history, a magnum opus, or masterpiece, has captured the essence of that period. Think of the Great Pyramids of Giza. The Statue of David. Picasso’s Guernica,” reads a 12-page whitepaper explaining the conception of the brand new forex.

“The world now stands upon the brink of the greatest transfer of wealth in its entire history,” the manifesto continued. “What better way to enshrine the beginning of this new blazing era, than to do so by celebrating the degenerates involved, alongside the most innovative man of the 21st Century, Elon Musk?” Behold:

Regardless of your emotions on Elon Musk, goats, or the phrase “innovation,” you may’t deny that the statue is unsettling, to say the least. Maybe it’s the goat horns. Maybe it’s the very fact he’s using a rocket that appears to be actively electrocuting him. Maybe it’s as a result of—because the temporary describes—the Elon Goat group has plans to hook up the over 30-foot lengthy statue to a Tesla and drive the factor to the automaker’s HQ in Austin, Texas, “for Musk and the globe to admire.” You can watch the promo clip beneath and are available to your personal conclusions:

A Motherboard interview with one of many crypto’s builders, Ashley Sansalone, revealed that the concept for this horrific human-goat hybrid truly got here throughout a consulting name at 3:30 within the morning, which, yeah, may clarify a number of issues. The man on the opposite finish of the road apparently pitched the concept for an NFT collection that includes a goat-ified Musk. Sansalone, to his credit score, advised the outlet that he didn’t need to waste time pumping out hundreds of NFT’s that may be “meaningless to [him], personally.”

Apparently, making “a huge goat” (his phrases) simply made extra sense. And after researching logistics, Sansalone got here to the conclusion that the simplest approach to construct that massive goat can be indoors, and on a trailer—a tactic that may let his group skirt the rules and zoning legal guidelines he’d must adjust to in any other case. This, in flip, sparked the concept to hitch that massive goat to the again of a Tesla, take it on a tour across the nation, and drop it on Elon Musk’s doorstep the place he’ll, presumably… tweet about it, since that’s form of his specialty.

Sansalone famous within the interview that he’s already dropped a strong $20,000 on an outdoor designer to begin work on the undertaking, and that designer, in flip, has been chronicling his goatventures on Instagram. Sansalone mentioned he anticipated the statue to be full in “under four months,” and can value him about $500,000 in any case’s mentioned and performed. But if this debacle one way or the other lands Elon Goat on its namesake’s Twitter feed—which has been seen singlehandedly spiking the costs of different cryptos up to now—then perhaps that value is price it.