A Motherboard interview with one of the crypto’s developers, Ashley Sansalone, revealed that the idea for this horrific human-goat hybrid actually came during a consulting call at 3:30 in the morning, which, yeah, might explain a few things. The guy on the other end of the line apparently pitched the idea for an NFT series featuring a goat-ified Musk. Sansalone, to his credit, told the outlet that he didn’t want to waste time pumping out thousands of NFT’s that would be “meaningless to [him], personally.”
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Apparently, making “a huge goat” (his words) just made more sense. And after researching logistics, Sansalone came to the conclusion that the easiest way to build that huge goat would be indoors, and on a trailer—a tactic that would let his team skirt the regulations and zoning laws he’d need to comply with otherwise. This, in turn, sparked the idea to hitch that huge goat to the back of a Tesla, take it on a tour around the country, and drop it on Elon Musk’s doorstep where he’ll, presumably… tweet about it, since that’s kind of his specialty.
Sansalone noted in the interview that he’s already dropped a solid $20,000 on an outside designer to start work on the project, and that designer, in turn, has been chronicling his goatventures on Instagram. Sansalone said he expected the statue to be complete in “under four months,” and will cost him about $500,000 after all’s said and done. But if this debacle somehow lands Elon Goat on its namesake’s Twitter feed—which has been seen singlehandedly spiking the prices of other cryptos in the past—then maybe that price is worth it.
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