OG收藏家pranksy是NFT空间中最多产的人物之一，但仍然是加密蛋糕最伟大的奥秘之一

恶作剧的爆炸使他的牙齿削减了他的牙齿，并迅速建立了一堆ETH，他不懈地将其倒入生态系统中，被称为“薄荷之王”

Pranksy, one of the OG collectors and a key figure in popularizing Bored Ape Yacht Club, is still adding to his primary wallet, pranksy.eth, which now holds more than 45,000 NFTs with Avastars and CyberBrokers two of his biggest current holdings.

Pranksy是OG收藏家之一，也是普及无聊的APE游艇俱乐部的关键人物，他仍在增加他的主要钱包Pranksy.eth，现在拥有超过45,000个NFT，拥有Avastars和Cyber​​brokers他目前最大的两个持股。

Few names in NFTs carry as much weight as his, but ask him who Pranksy really is and the answer might surprise you.

NFT中的几个名字的体重和他的重量一样多，但是问他真是谁是谁，答案可能会让您感到惊讶。

“Pranksy was an individual. In fact, the name ‘Pranksy’ was only adopted a few years into the world of NFTs, when the market started gaining interest in digital art,” Pranksy tells NFT Collector.

Pranksy告诉NFT Collector：“实际上，当市场开始对数字艺术引起人们的兴趣时，'pranksy'这个名字仅在几年内被采用。”

“Pranksy now represents a wonderfully diverse team of people; however, ‘Pranksy’ is still an individual voice, who runs his own social media, he just has help running NFTBoxes and our new shiny thing, the House of Pranksy.”

“现在，恶作剧代表了一个非常多样化的人团队；但是，'pranksy'仍然是一个个人的声音，他经营着自己的社交媒体，他只是帮助运行NFTBoxes和我们的新闪亮的东西，即Pranksy的House。”

$600 in ETH started it all

600美元的ETH开始了这一切

Similar to the trajectory of other OG NFT collectors such as j1mmy.eth and Nate Alex, Pranksy first stumbled upon NFTs through CryptoKitties around the end of 2017. He had never even bought ETH at the time.

类似于其他OG NFT收藏家（例如J1MMY.ETH和NATE ALEX）的轨迹，pranksy在2017年底前后首次通过Cryptokitties偶然发现了NFT。当时他甚至从未购买过ETH。

“A friend told me via Slack that people were paying ridiculous amounts of money for pictures of cats on the internet, and you could breed those cats, and the rest is history,” Pranksy says.

Pranksy说：“一个朋友通过Slack告诉我，人们在互联网上为猫的猫付出了荒谬的钱，您可以繁殖这些猫，其余的就是历史。”

“I bought around $600 of ETH to buy and mint those kittens, I never bought ETH again after this.”

“我购买了大约600美元的ETH购买和铸造那些小猫，此后我再也没有购买Eth。”

That moment led to years of collecting, experimenting and building up a huge stack of ETH in a space that most of the world hadn’t yet heard of. Long before 2021-22 NFT mania, Pranksy was stacking NFTs and making a name for himself among a tight-knit group of collectors, artists and project founders through 2017-2020.

那一刻导致了多年的收集，实验和建立一大堆ETH，这是世界上大多数人尚未听说的空间。早在2021 - 22年NFT狂热之前，Pranksy一直在堆叠NFT，并在2017 - 2020年之前的一群收藏家，艺术家和项目创始人中为自己而闻名。

And the origin of the name “Pranksy”? “Before Pranksy, it was Pranked. I wanted to rebrand when minting my first piece of terrible artwork,” he says.

和“ pranksy”这个名字的起源？他说：“在恶作剧之前，它是恶作剧的。我想在铸造我的第一件可怕艺术品时重塑品牌。”

BAYC Genesis: The mint and tweet that changed everything

Bayc Genesis：改变了一切的薄荷和推文

One of Pranksy’s most notable moments in his career as a top NFT whale started like any other mint.

像NFT顶级鲸鱼的职业生涯中，Pranksy最著名的时刻之一一样，就像其他任何薄荷一样。

On 1 May 2021, he began his mint of 1,250 Bored Apes in a few batches. His initial mint of 250 was followed with a tweet, “No horrible FOMO pricing strategy, each Ape is .08 ETH, + they look great.” Within a few more hours, Pranksy ran his total up to 1,320 total Apes.

2021年5月1日，他分几批开始了他的1,250个无聊的猿猴。他最初的250薄荷饰有一条推文：“没有可怕的FOMO定价策略，每个猿的价格为.08 ETH， +它们看起来很棒。”在再过几个小时之内，恶作剧的总猿类总数达到了1,320个。

Pranky’s multiple large mints and tweets, along with j1mmy.Eth’s sweep of 420 Apes led to the sell-out of all 10,000. At the time, no one, including Pranksy, could predict the trajectory BAYC was about to take.

恶作剧的多个大型薄荷糖和推文以及J1mmy.eth的420猿扫描导致了全部10,000的售罄。当时，没有人，包括尖锐的人，都无法预测轨迹Bayc即将采取的轨迹。

“It wasn’t very different to many other mints, it was at a time when NFT projects didn’t sell out in seconds with a huge waitlist for minting. Nobody expected BAYC to be one of the greatest returns on initial investment in the history of finance.”

“这与许多其他造币厂并没有太大的不同，那时NFT项目在几秒钟内没有售罄，而铸造列表却巨大。

He recalls interacting with his running mate, j1mmy.Eth and BAYC, “Passed the profile picture test.”

他回想起与跑步伴侣J1mmy.eth和Bayc互动，“通过了个人资料图片测试”。

What followed was a historic run. A single Ape could eventually net a holder close to $1mil from a mint cost of 0.08 ETH (~$220), if they held their original BAYC and sold their airdrops: BAKC (June ’21), MAYC (Sep ’21), ApeCoin (Mar ’22), and Otherside Land (May ’22). The top coincided with the Otherdeed for Otherside mint at the end of April 2022, almost exactly one year after the mint.

随之而来的是历史性的跑步。如果他们持有原始的bayc并出售其空气流量，则一只猿最终可以从薄荷成本（约220美元）的造币厂成本净化接近100万美元的持有人：BAKC（'21年6月），Mayc（9月21日），Apecoin（Mar '22）（Mar '22）等（Mar '22）等（其他地区）（2002年5月22日）。在2022年4月底，在造币厂几乎一年后，最高的与他人的另一个薄荷相吻合。

NFT dealer to celebrities and sports stars

NFT经销商和名人和体育明星

The eye-watering run-up of value for Bored Apes didn’t happen immediately. For the first month, Apes were still sitting below a 1 ETH floor price, and Pranksy was still sending large quantities of his collection to friends.

无聊的猿类价值的吸引人的价值没有立即发生。在第一个月，猿类仍处于1级楼层价格以下，而Pranksy仍在向朋友发送大量收藏。

By the back half of 2021, Apes were becoming a cultural phenomenon and they were everywhere: Steph Curry, Snoop Dogg, Paris Hilton, Jimmy Fallon, Madonna, Justin Bieber and many more. Everyone wanted a piece of the action.

到2021年的后半段，猿类已经成为一种文化现象，它们到处都是：斯蒂芬·库里（Steph Curry），史努比·杜格（Snoop Dogg），帕里斯·希尔顿（Paris Hilton），吉米·法伦（Jimmy Fallon），麦当娜（Madonna），贾斯汀·比伯（Justin Bieber）等。每个人都想要一件动作。

Pranksy ended up doing deals with some of the world’s most famous people and sports stars, from Gwyneth Paltrow to Tinie Tempah to NBA star Josh Hart, who’s currently playing in the NBA playoffs.

Pranksy最终与世界上一些最著名的人和体育明星进行了交易，从Gwyneth Paltrow到Tinie Tempah再到NBA明星Josh Hart，后者目前正在NBA季后赛中踢球。

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