The JPG file of the artist Beeple was sold for $ 69 million as NFT. This is a record

The auction house Christiegn sold the work of “Evedeys: The First 5000 Days” by the artist Mike Vinkelmann, known as Beeple, for $ 69.3 million in the form of non -deposited token ( NFT ), according to the website of the auction house. This is a record price for NFT.

A JPG file was put up at the auction-a collage from all the images that the artist published daily on the Internet for five thousand days since 2007.

According to The New York Times, the auction took place within two weeks, bidding began with a starting price of $ 100. In the last few seconds of trading, many applications have received, which is why the auction was extended by two minutes.

• The cost of Beeple was the third largest auction price for the work of the now living artist - after Jeff Kuns ( 91.1 million dollars ) and David Hokni ( 90.3 million dollars ).
• The price of the Beeple digital work surpassed the cost of many physical paintings of such artists as Eugene Delacrois, Marseille Dyushan and Francisco Goya, Nyt notes.
• "EVERYDAYS: The First 5000 Days"-the first work in the form of NFT sold by Christiegn in its 255-year history. During the auction, the auction house first accepted the Ethereum cryptocurrency.