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Buzzfeed faces backlash for “doxxing” Bored Ape Yacht Club founders identifies

Buzzfeed faced community backlash after revealing the real identities of two of the four original Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection creators.

Buzzfeed has uncovered that the real identities of “Gordon Goner” and “Gargamel,” two of the four original Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT series creators, are Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow.

By searching the publicly available data of Yuga Labs, the journalist was able to discover the pair’s names by searching the publicly available data of Yuga Labs, the firm behind the collection.

The non-consensual publication of Aronow and Solano’s names has sparked outrage among Web3 users, who are calling the story “doxxing” rather than proper journalistic technique. Crypto podcaster “Cobie” dubbed the story “standard Buzzfeed rubbish.” Yuga Labs said on Feb. 4 that the NFT collection was in discussions for investment with A16z, one of Silicon Valley’s top VC companies, which valued the collection at $5 billion.

Solano and Aronow aren’t the only prominent crypto figures to be publicly outed this year. Earlier, the genuine name of DeFi protocol co-founder “Wonderland,” who also co-founded the now-defunct Canadian exchange QuadrigaCX, was also revealed by different media firms.

Vaishali Goel
Vaishali Goel
Technology enthusiast, explorer and academic scholar. Currently exploring the crypto world. Join me in my journey to see how crypto, NFT and Metaverse will change the world.
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