That guy from Amsterdam who bought Talk.Show from Michael had previously bought a lot new gTLDs.
and later, a year ago he bought Sex.City and talked about what he wanted to create a big dating network.
He also bought a few domains with "the"
It looks like, now, that this guy made a lot of money on the cryptocurrency, as an early adopter, and began to buy expensive domains. This is just like if you won the lottery, you can easily spend this money without thinking about the real cost of things you want to buy. Just because you really like it and you really want to have it, and you have money for this.
There is a more complicated angle towards spending crypto for online assets, it can be easier to exchange for other assets, than cash out at times. Just going, and blowing stupid money on domains, is not a smart investment, and any domainer will admit that.
You buy those one word .com's if you are in the $100K range right, those are liquid assets. If you go spending $100K for names like Talk.Show etc... if you ever need to liquidate, even the guy you sold it to, will barely pay you $5-10K for it.
That is great for us, I welcome this crazy crypto money, it has been a great 3 weeks in the crypto markets for traders, so hopefully more of this is coming down the pipeline.
Berkens must have some kind of signal to turn down $100K, opening offer of $20K is great, a counter of $100K, is ok, let's get this done. Remember some gtld extensions only cost $185K for application fee.
With Berkens if the buyer walks he is not going to lose any sleep at night, as I know he likes his tech stocks, and he probably did really well in 2017, especially with that $35M godaddy warchest.