At a time when almost all music was instantly available for free, Once Upon a Time in ShaolinВ was going to be nearly impossible to hear. Rolling Stone reports:ДЄ quick history: A Wu-Tang obsessive named Tarik 'Cilvaringz' Azzougarh gradually works his way into the periphery of the famous Nineties hip-hop group and hits on the idea of recording a single copy of an album and limiting its uses. PleasrDAO purchased the rare Wu-Tang album, which has a fairly epic origin story, for $4 million.

In order to comply, Shkreli has sold high-value assets such as a piece of art by Pablo Picasso, a (formerly unreleased, rare) Lil Wayne album, and now Once Upon a Time in Shaolin. He is currently serving a seven-year prison sentence and was forced to forfeit $7.4 million in assets to the government. Notorious for raising the price of the drug Daraprim, which is used to treat people with HIV/AIDS and malaria, from a little over $13 per pill to $750 per pill, Shkreli was convicted of securities fraud in 2018. How did the federal government get its grubby hands on the rare and unreleased Wu-Tang album? Enter Martin Shkreli. PleasrDAO, a decentralized autonomous organization 'governed around a specific set of rules enforced on the blockchain' according to Cointelegraph, just made public that it paid $4 million to procure Wu-Tang Clan's Once Upon a Time in Shaolin from the federal government.

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