Crypto Twitter is paying a man to buy goats and name them after crypto things

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After a man bought a goat using his worldcoin airdrop, other crypto users have started funding his purchases of more goats.
They are typically spending $50 for him to buy a goat and name it whatever they like.

Cryptocurrency users are sending crypto to a man to buy goats and name them after crypto-related people, products or concepts.

This all started when Richard Opany bought a goat over the Easter period using his $100 worldcoin airdrop and called it Sam, after Worldcoin co-founder Sam Altman. This added to the two goats he already owned.

Shortly after this, Leighton Cusack, the co-founder of PoolTogether, sent Opany $100 to buy a goat. Opany took the money and bought two goats, naming one Higher — likely in reference to people's desires for crypto prices — and the other Base, after Coinbase’s Layer 2 network.

Two crypto anons have already suggested tokenizing the goat that he bought with worldcoin, although Opany wasn’t sure how to do so.

Opany already has at least four orders for buying and naming more goats. CoinCenter Head of Comms Neeraj Agrawal sent him $50 to buy a goat and name it after his friend Nic Carter, a general partner at Castle Island Ventures. A crypto anon known as Brunny, previously the head of ecosystems at Aztec Network, also sent Opany $50 to name a goat Boaty McBoatFace — which won a vote to be the name of a UK polar research vessel, although it was overruled.

Another crypto anon sent him the same amount to call a goat after CoinCenter's Neeraj. Carter sent him $100 to call a goat Tungsten, after the heavy cubes that became a meme on Crypto Twitter over two years ago (where Agrawal memed a Bloomberg headline into reality).

Opany has been sent around $1,120 in crypto across multiple blockchain layers, onchain data shows. He has forwarded some of the money to crypto exchanges.

When Carter asked how many goats Opany could accommodate, he said the maximum would be 15 goats.

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