He Sold the Apes. Then Sued the Species.

Pranksy says Bored Apes ruined NFTs. On October 4 he wrote it plain: a technology with actual potential became known worldwide as the ape thing, and all anyone saw for years was copy and paste. By the next morning Greg Solano had answered on the same post. Brother, you sold what could have been $500 million in apes for a few million, then shilled any dogshit copy-pasta you could find. You founded NFT companies that have since been wiped off your bio. Be the change you want to see, or enjoy the house BAYC bought you.

That is the whole article. The rest is manners.

The 1,250 is the number in the fight. JBond put it in the fan cut: minted 1,250, made millions selling them on the way up, sold a lot of them early, and is now shocked the format won. Garga did not bother relitigating the count. He litigated the house. The $500 million is his peak math, not a wire. At the top, a bag that size is a story. What cleared was a few million, early, while the floor was still introducing itself. Use the ghost number as a fact and the post gets as sloppy as the complaint.

Pranksy walked it back a step. Slightly better wording, he said: BAYC and its success ruined what could have been for NFTs. Not really the founders’ fault. Timing. Luck. Top Shot and the Beeple sale had already spun the wheel. The apes got the price right and the picture right, and the success of that format drowned the experiments. That version is almost an argument. The first version was a man blaming the mint for the market he cashed.

He is not wrong about the years. After the yacht cleared, the timeline spent three years opening the gallery next door. Same animal, new hat, roadmap in the Discord, floor set by the seller who needed out. The copies were the ruin, if there is a ruin. They did not happen to him. He minted the proof that a profile picture could clear, sold the proof, and by the founder’s account went on to promote the pasta. Then he filed the complaint as if he had been on the sidewalk.

Garga did not come back to save a floor. He came back to put the invoice on the right desk. The house is paid for. The eulogy is extra.

Pedro Jose

Stack of Truths

Edited with Grok

(P.S. No financial advice. Blaming the mint you sold is not a thesis. It is a second invoice.)