The US Government Sold a Wu-Tang Album to a DAO for $4M
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.
On today’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW tells the story of PleasrDAO buying a one-of-a-kind hip hop album, and what it means that the U.S. government is interacting with this new type of collective. He also reads:
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