Moonbirds NFT Founder Bought A $16 Million House - DIRT

Moonbirds NFT Founder Bought A $16 Million House – DIRT

Moonbirds Kevin Rose House Los Angeles

Harnish Properties

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Buyer Kevin Rose

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Location Brentwood, Los Angeles, Calif.

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Price $165 million

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Specs 7,612 square feet, 6 rooms, 8.5 shower rooms

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Lot Size 0.48 acres

Who, that understood owls were so prominent? The art globe’s most current trend is Moonbirds, a collection of 10,000 owl characters that are likewise non-fungible symbols (NFTs). The Ethereum-based task introduced previously this year and also nearly instantaneously marketed out, creating incomes of $445 million in an issue of days and also later on stroking up $50 million in a Series A financing round led by equity capital leviathan Andreessen Horowitz.

Behind Moonbirds is Kevin Rose, that isn’t fairly a home name yet has actually been a remarkable technology business owner for virtually twenty years. The California local, 45, initially pertained to prestige in the mid-aughts many thanks to his prominent Digg web site. The success of that now-defunct website as well as various other very early web ventures led Rose’s makeover right into an investor, and also he ended up being a really early financier in a variety of significant technology business that are currently worth billions– Twitter, Zynga as well as Square amongst them.

For the majority of the last years, Rose has actually lived mainly in Portland, Ore., where in 2020 he finished building and construction on a really glazed customized house. With the blossoming success of Moonbirds and also his Proof web3 umbrella firm, it’s possibly no shock that he’s looking towards Los Ang