We don’t know about you all, but we’ve had a terrible time sleeping these past few weeks, what with Seth Green’s Bored Ape NFT being kidnapped, and all. Thankfully, the tortuous and dramatic saga seems to have finally found a happy conclusion — BuzzFeed News reports that Green has successfully reunited with his beloved “Fred Simian” NFT after doling out 165ETH (or roughly $297,000) to a collector known as “Mr Cheese” for Fred’s safe, digital return. Incidentally, that’s about $100,000 more than Mr Cheese paid for it last month, so we’ll let that one sink in for a moment.
Green, like so many others, was the victim of a crypto phishing scam back in early May, during which time four NFT characters in his possession were looted and subsequently resold to buyers, including the aforementioned Mr Cheese. According to Green himself, he had spent months “developing and exploiting the IP to make it into the star of this show,” a mixed live action-animated series apparently called White Horse Tavern which looks, uh — well just watch for yourself.
