How Beeple Crashed the Art World | The New Yorker

[David Morris]

> How Beeple Crashed the Art World | The New Yorker
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> An N.F.T., or “non-fungible token,” of the digital artist’s work sold for
sixty-nine million dollars in a Christie’s auction. It’s good news for
crypto-optimists, but what about for art?

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/how-beeple-crashed-the-art-world
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In October of last year, Mike Winkelmann, a digital artist who goes by the
name Beeple, noticed increasing talk in his online circles about a
technology called “non-fungible tokens,” or N.F.T.s. Broadly speaking,
N.F.T.s are a tool for providing proof of ownership of a digital asset. […]