{"id":1160513,"date":"2021-12-27T10:04:54","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T15:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160513"},"modified":"2021-12-27T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T15:04:59","slug":"republican-senate-candidate-is-selling-nfts-to-finance-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-senate-candidate-is-selling-nfts-to-finance-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Senate Candidate Is Selling NFTs To Finance Campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublican-senate-candidate-is-selling-nfts-to-finance-campaign%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1160513&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters is selling a line of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to finance his campaign, Axios reported.<\/p>\n<p>NFTs are unique packets of data stored on the blockchain, a decentralized public ledger distributed across multiple servers, that often correspond to media such as a piece of digital art. Masters\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ztonft.com\/\">NFT<\/a>&nbsp;includes a digital copy of the cover art of \u201cZero to One,\u201d a book he co-authored with tech billionaire Peter Thiel, along with a signed hardcover print of the book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ztonft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to Masters\u2019 website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first NFT we\u2019re issuing to help share the book\u2019s cool history, and to help raise money for my U.S. Senate campaign, so we can help use Zero to One thinking to save America from the brink of destruction,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/arizona-peter-thiel-senate\/\">Masters<\/a>, who serves as chief operating officer of Thiel Capital, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ztonft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wr<\/a>o<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ztonft.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">te<\/a> in announcing the NFT.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6955878\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-6955878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NY \u2013 NOVEMBER 01: Peter Thiel, Partner, Founders Fund, speaks at the New York Times DealBook conference on November 1, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Stephanie Keith\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Only 99 NFTs are set to be minted, and each will be sold for $5,800, Masters\u2019 website says. The NFTs will also include an invitation to a private party hosted by Thiel and Masters, and access to an exclusive chat room. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/tucker-carlson-jd-vance-blake-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018The Republican Party Is Getting Better\u2019: Tucker Carlson Voices His Support For Senate Candidates JD Vance, Blake Masters)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Masters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/blake-masters-nft-senate-arizona-998f683e-65cd-4115-9e79-86b1f48eb2b7.html\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Axios the NFTs were designed to attract \u201cless conventional political donors\u201d and broaden his campaign\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best NFT projects aren\u2019t just random \u2018art on the blockchain,&#8217;\u201d Masters said, but rather \u201ccreate or support certain communities where people share an excitement about something in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Masters is running in a crowded Arizona Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Republican_Party_primaries_in_Arizona,_2022\">primary<\/a>&nbsp;which includes current Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich. The winner will square off with Arizona Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/04\/mark-kelly-beats-martha-mcsally-arizona-election\/\">unseated<\/a> incumbent Martha McSally in a 2020 special election.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/04\/26\/peter-thiel-arizona-senate-race-484585\">funding<\/a>&nbsp;Masters\u2019 election political action committee, the Saving Arizona PAC, to the tune of $10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters is selling a line of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to finance his campaign, Axios reported.NFTs are unique packets of data stored on the blockchain, a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1160513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}