{"id":2837,"date":"2022-05-04T19:37:58","date_gmt":"2022-05-04T19:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deficoins.io\/?p=2837"},"modified":"2022-05-12T09:47:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T09:47:08","slug":"elon-musk-changes-twitter-profile-picture-to-bored-ape-nft-collage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deficoins.io\/blog\/2022\/05\/04\/elon-musk-changes-twitter-profile-picture-to-bored-ape-nft-collage\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Changes Twitter Profile Picture to Bored Ape NFT Collage","gt_translate_keys":[{"key":"rendered","format":"text"}]},"content":{"rendered":"
Source: cnet.com<\/p><\/div>\n
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla, has changed his Twitter profile picture to a composite image that features a collage of Bored Ape Yacht Club images, sending the crypto price soaring.<\/p>\n
The center of the new Elon Musk Twitter picture features a gold-furred chimpanzee in blue glasses.<\/p>\n
Source: mashable.com<\/p><\/div>\n
There is no evidence that Elon Musk owns the NFT in question. It is also not clear whether Elon Musk purchased a Bored Ape NFT. He liked a tweet made by Michael Bouhanna, who works with auction house Sotheby\u2019s as an executive. Michael said that the image was \u201ccreated for our Sotheby\u2019s sale.\u201d<\/p>\n
Source: twitter.com<\/p><\/div>\n
\u201cHappy to send you the original file minted with the buyer approval,\u201d wrote Bouhanna in the tweet.<\/p>\n
It seems Musk simply right-clicked and saved the image and made it his Twitter profile picture. Twitter comes with a dedicated feature that users can use to set their NFT as a hexagonal picture, but Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter avatar is simply a standard profile image.<\/p>\n
Elon Musk and the Crypto Twitter Community<\/strong><\/p>\n If you follow Elon Musk news, you know that he has been engaging the cryptocurrency Twitter community for a long time. Musk has trolled people and shared memes that have led to a surge in the price of Dogecoin. This was during his fallout from an on-off relationship with Bitcoin.<\/p>\n In one of the cases, he tweeted a popular comment from NFT critics. Elon wrote, \u201cI dunno \u2026 seems kinda fungible.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: Twitter.com<\/p><\/div>\n The community members have started reacting after realizing that he might have simply taken a Bored Ape image meant for promotion, and the Apes in Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter profile picture don\u2019t belong to him.<\/p>\n Josh Ong, a Bored Ape NFT holder tweeted, \u201cTwitter owner right click saved us.\u201d<\/p>\n Last year, he stated that Tesla will start accepting Bitcoin as payment, but he later withdrew this option due to the negative impact on the environment associated with Bitcoin mining.<\/p>\n Cryptocurrency mining has impacts on the environment such as high consumption of electricity and poisonous emissions. This is one of the reasons why Wikipedia has stopped accepting Bitcoin and Ethereum donations<\/a>.<\/p>\n Did Elon Musk\u2019s Twitter Action Move the Crypto Markets<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n Although the motive behind Elon Musk Twitter profile picture is not clear, his actions seem to have the power to move the cryptocurrency market.<\/p>\n ApeCoin, the cryptocurrency developed by Bored Ape creators Yuga Labs, saw an increase in the cryptocurrency price in 1 hour at around 8:00 a.m. Before the end of an hour after Musk\u2019s new Twitter profile picture, the crypto price had increased by nearly 20%.<\/p>\n The cryptocurrency was launched in March by BAYC and the crypto price was $1 per token. It then settled at about $14 and $15 over the last week.<\/p>\n