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Flagged as the link seems to be some kind of Ethereum leaderboard and nothing to do with the claimed title.

Thanks, I emailed Dang to update the url to the “lore” subpage.

The linked website is the official site of the Album owner. The homepage simply shows a countdown clock to the release date of the album originally scheduled for 2103, but the release date/clock is being reduced in real-time based on album purchases.

This Album is the highest selling album of all-time, it only had 1 physical copy made, and the ownership history is just as interesting. For more info on the Album here is the Wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Once_Upon_a_Time_in_Shaolin

We've changed the URL from https://www.thealbum.com/ to the NYT article about it, which has more background and will hopefully be more interesting.

Thanks! I tried clicking around the various links and nothing seemed to happen apart from popups trying to get me to enter my wallet information, so I assumed it was just some kind of crypto-scam leaderboard.

I've now read the other article, and it's fascinating. Somehow I missed the story about the arrest and this album at the time...

Ah yes, an amazing source where you can only read it if you're duped into signing up for a 12 month commitment to them for the pleasure of watching your pocket book sucked dry.

Both the /lore page and the wikipedia article provides more information about it for free than the NYT does.

If there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

I think the story behind this page is interesting.

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