The island will be giving out 5,620 free citizen NFTs to applicants that have a valid Ethereum wallet address and have bought, sold, or minted an NFT on OpenSea in the last year. Verified crypto influencers with more than 21,000 Twitter followers, will automatically get a citizenship NFT if they apply. Benjamin Neaderland A tiny island off Vanuatu's Espiritu Santo Island could become a haven for people who want to live exclusively in a digital world.
To find answers, Climate Home News dived into a community of cryptocurrency investors, connecting on messaging apps Telegram and Discord. Members were buzzing about the prospects of Save Planet Earth (SPE), the UK-based cryptocurrency venture behind the auction. Blockchain The brains behind the project, Anthony Welch, a retired property investor who now lives in Vanuatu, renamed the island, in grand imperial fashion, two years ago. Vanuatu’s government has pointed out that such an act has no force of law or real significance. According to the country’s director general of the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, in order to formally change the name — which is actually Le-Tharo — the government’s Place Name Committee would need to approve such request. This hasn’t happened. Satoshi Island is, for all intents and purposes, a fantasy island.