Sotheby’s makes headlines this week with an NFT auction for the internet source code that closed for over $5.4 million dollars! This NFT includes the original code, written by Tim Berners-Lee, for three protocols that were the foundation of the World Wide Web. Berners-Lee wrote the code in 1989 and included implementations of HTML (Hypertext […]
Auction house Sotheby’s will put the original source code of the world wide web under the hammer as an NFT, as they teamed up with British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee. The unique NFT will be a bundle of four different elements, including the original, time-stamped code files written by Berners-Lee. According to the official tweets, […]
World-famous auction house Sotheby’s has recreated its London New Bond Street galleries in the virtual world of Decentraland. After getting involved in NFT auctions, the renowned auction house now becomes part of the metaverse with their own virtual location. The virtual version of Sotheby’s London location is placed in Decentraland’s Voltaire Art District (visit: 52,83). […]
Auction house Sotheby’s is going to auction The Fungible Collection by digital artist Murat Pak in collaboration with Nifty Gateway. The auction will start next week from April 12th until the 14th. The collection taps into the concept of ‘our understanding of value’. The idea is that Pak, as the anonymous artist is best known, […]
Auction house Sotheby’s is working with digital artist Murat Pak to auction a new, yet unannounced piece of NFT art. Charles Stewart, CEO of Sotheby’s, said in an interview with CNBC’s News Alert that working with an anonymous crypto artist like Pak is ‘disruptive compared to the traditional art world’. Even though Pak is the […]
