Art and NFTs: Beeple reflects one year after historic $69 million digital art sale

Photo: “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” a collage of digital images by Beeple. Photo credit: Christie’s Auction House / AFP – Getty Images. Article by Daniel Spielberger. NBC News – March 11, 2022.

The digital artist knows NFTs aren’t perfect: “Let’s fix the problems, and let’s use this technology to better things.”

Mike Winkelmann’s life changed on March 11, 2021, and so did the trajectories of the art and the blockchain communities. That day, Winkelmann, a digital artist more commonly known by the handle Beeple, sold “Everydays: The First 5000 Days,” an NFT-linked digital collage at Christie’s. The work brought in $69.3 million at the revered British auction house. […]

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