Ozzy Osbourne | Crypto

The Ripple executive says he felt really bad about the situation and "it wasn’t the authentic interaction with celebrities" that he was aiming for. Ripple’s chief technology officer David Schwartz confessed that he once faked fan questions for Black Sabbath and filtered the responses of recently deceased rock legend Ozzy Osbourne during what was meant to be an authentic Q&A with fans — an experience he now regrets. “I cheated,” Swartz said in an X post on Thursday. “To me personally, it was a failure, but to everyone else it was a success,” recalling his time at WebMaster when, as an employee, he was assigned to deliver responses to fan questions for Osbourne — who passed away on Tuesday at the age of 76 — and the other members of Black Sabbath using the company’s ConferenceRoom software.  Read more

CoinGecko has shown that Ozzy Osbourne CryptoBatz NFTs have soared more than 400 % in value just after the musician’s death at 76, then eased by about 10 % the following day. The December 2021 collection has previously faced criticism for Discord links that led users to scammers, later removed. The post Ozzy Osbourne’s NFT Collection Sees Price Surge After Rock Icon’s Death appeared first on Cryptonews.

Though modest compared to 2022 levels, the latest spike in Ozzy Osbourne’s CryptoBatz NFTs could signal an NFT market rebound. Ozzy Osbourne’s death at 76 on Tuesday sparked a surge in the non-fungible token (NFT) market as fans rushed to own a piece of the heavy metal icon’s legacy through his CryptoBatz collection. Within hours of the announcement of his passing, the floor price of his CryptoBatz NFTs briefly surged by more than 400%, from under 0.02 Ether (ETH) to as high as 0.08 ETH, according to OpenSea data. At current market prices, the peak floor price for a CryptoBatz NFT was $295 at 8:00 pm UTC on Tuesday, according to CoinGecko. Read more