XCOPY / KO

Sillytuna

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0x1915d20497269b19952ebdf5e020e73e34b66004Primary
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1 copy, collected since May 2022; 1 held at the latest snapshot

A 2023 interview identifies Sillytuna as Alex Amsel and describes his background in game development, including more than fifteen years running a game studio before moving into blockchain work.1 Writing as Sillytuna in 2016, Amsel described his gaming background and named himself among the founders of Ownage, a project intended to apply Ethereum smart contracts to ownership and trading of digital game content.2 In a 2021 interview following Sotheby’s Natively Digital sale, he explained that he researched Kevin McCoy’s Quantum with curator Robert Alice and artist Rhea Myers because he wanted its provenance better understood publicly.3

Collecting record

DateWorkCopyEventETHTransaction
The Doomed84/100Received·0x567e…a27c

References

Interviews and first-person sources

  1. Cited for this account: A 2023 interview identifies Sillytuna as Alex Amsel and describes his background in game development, including more than fifteen years running a game studio before moving into blockchain work.

    “UP324 Web3 WTF — Alex Amsel on What We Learnt,” Unofficial Partner Podcast, podcast episode, Amazon Music, music.amazon.fr/podcasts/02c830e0-c1df-4379-8c6c-4c83c3c770ff/episodes/975d0612-046e-47b0-be25-ae630c1cf37a/unofficial-partner-podcast-up324-web3-wtf---alex-amsel-on-what-we-learnt (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎

  2. Cited for this account: In a 2021 interview following Sotheby’s Natively Digital sale, he explained that he researched Kevin McCoy’s Quantum with curator Robert Alice and artist Rhea Myers because he wanted its provenance better understood publicly.

    Eileen Kinsella, “Sotheby’s ‘Natively Digital’ NFT Sale Lands at $17.1 Million, With More Than Half the Total Racked Up in the Final Minutes,” Artnet News, 10 June 2021, news.artnet.com/market/sothebys-natively-digital-sale-1979174 (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎

Press and criticism

  1. Cited for this account: Writing as Sillytuna in 2016, Amsel described his gaming background and named himself among the founders of Ownage, a project intended to apply Ethereum smart contracts to ownership and trading of digital game content.

    Alex Amsel, “Ownage: An Ethereum based ownership and trading platform for digital game content,” Medium, 16 March 2016, sillytuna.medium.com/ownage-an-ethereum-based-ownership-and-trading-platform-for-digital-game-content-5ffa92350edf (accessed 7 October 2026). ↩︎