YouTube blogger swaps Tesla for Gary Vaynerchuk’s VeeFriends NFT

Dan Markham trades Tesla for a VeeFriends NFT.

The creator of the YouTube channel What’s Inside? with more than seven million subscribers, Dan Markham traded his electric Tesla Roadster for one non-fungible token (NFT).

Markham received the digital collectible Positive Porcupine from the VeeFriends NFT project by entrepreneur and author Gary Vaynerchuk in exchange for the sports car.

The token’s owner was Eli Burton, founder of the My Tesla Adventure community of EV owners.

He is also known as the creator of the comic The Adventures of Starman, about SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy test launch in 2018. It sent Elon Musk’s personal Tesla Roadster into space with a mannequin in a spacesuit named Starman.

I am incredibly grateful to @garyvee and the @veefriends community.

I traded my vee friends NFT epic positive porcupine for my dream car, the original Starman Tesla roaster.

This was only possible because of vee friends. I love you guys. Thank you 🖤https://t.co/9KCIWhcDkI pic.twitter.com/YyDfpxdukd

— Eli Burton (@EliBurton_) September 15, 2021

“I traded the epic Positive Porcupine from the VeeFriend collection for my dream car, the real Starman Roadster,” wrote Burton.

According to the YouTuber, the price of the limited-edition electric vehicle (about 2,450 cars) could soon reach $250,000.

“In a year, two or three, this could prove to be as monumentally stupid as it could be a great decision. I think these cars will have substantial value over time, but I believe in NFT,” Markham commented.

According to Burton, he planned to fetch more than $100,000 for the token before learning of the blogger’s offer.

There are more than 10,200 NFTs from VeeFriends in total. The most expensive token, Alert Ape, sold for 105 ETH (~$369,600 at the time of writing).

“When it comes to the financial prospects, there is essentially no difference between owning a collectible car or an NFT. All of it remains a collectible,” added Markham.

Earlier in September, weekly NFT trading volume fell by more than threefold from the record August figure of $1.05 billion.

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