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Did The U.S. Government Botch The Sale Of Wu-Tang’s Secret Album?

Did The U.S. Government Botch The Sale Of Wu-Tang’s Secret Album?

Uncle Sam recently sold "Once Upon A Time In Shaolin" for as little as $2.2 million. A successful NFT launch could have netted ten times that sum.

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Aug 03, 2021
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The Wu-Tang Clan’s “secret album” Once Upon A Time In Shaolin is on the move again. I broke the news of the one-of-a-kind record’s existence for Forbes in 2014, the year before pharma villain Martin Shkreli purchased it for $2 million. The U.S. government seized it in 2018, and last week…

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