Elon Ignores Crypto Bros Who Took $600,000 Bust of Him to Tesla HQ

Despite tech magnate Elon Musk’s latest and fixed drama with Twitter, his latest firm, there could be little question that the person nonetheless has legions of adoring followers. One group of fanboys took their devotion to the subsequent stage this previous Saturday, delivering a $600,000 sculpture of Musk to Tesla headquarters in Austin, Texas. The richest man on the earth ignored them.

The fanboys made a pilgrimage to Tesla HQ in October as a stunt to advertise their cryptocurrency firm—Elon GOAT Token, or EGT—which sells a token of the identical identify. According to the EGT website, the corporate commissioned the sculpture to honor Musk’s accomplishments and inform him they assume he’s the GOAT, the “greatest of all time.” The Musk sculpture, which weighs 12,000 kilos (5,440 kilos), options the Tesla CEO’s head on prime of a goat’s physique using a rocket. The bust can also be sporting a gold-plated dogecoin necklace. To date, nevertheless, Musk has disregarded their items.

That’s not all, although. The Wall Street Journal reported that the rocket Musk is using can transfer and factors to the sky as if it’s preparing for liftoff. The sculpture can also be geared up with gasoline traces to create flames on the again finish of the rocket. Kevin Stone, a steel sculptor in Canada, made Musk’s head out of mirror polished aluminum over a period of six months. The goat physique and the rocket, in the meantime, had been made by Spectacle, an structure and design firm in Phoenix, Arizona.

EGT representatives advised the Journal that their aim was for Musk to just accept the 12,000-pound present on the occasion at Tesla, which they named “GOATSgiving.” But the fanboys harbored an apparent ulterior motive: They wished Musk to just accept the present and tweet about it to his 100 million+ followers, which they hoped would draw consideration to their token.

“Elon tweeting us would legitimize the token,” Ashley Sansalone, the chief answerable for improvement at EGT, advised the Journal.

Considering what occurred when Musk fell in love with Dogecoin, which began off as a meme inventory till the billionaire took a liking to it and began tweeting about it, Sansalone’s concept is definitely believable. Currently, Dogecoin has a $12.5 billion market cap, in line with CoinMarketCap, and is ranked #8 of all crypto tokens. With a rank of #3010 and a market cap of $4.2 million, EGT has a protracted technique to go.

In the tip, EGT didn’t go the way in which of Dogecoin. Musk by no means got here out to say his $600,000 present. He didn’t acknowledge it on Twitter. Nonetheless, don’t assume the sculpture goes into storage. The EGT group plans to take it on tour and use it to create an “Elon Santa” for Christmas.