{"id":273172,"date":"2021-06-12T22:43:26","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T19:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/cryptopunk-nft-sells-for-11-8-million-at-sothebys\/"},"modified":"2021-06-12T22:43:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T19:43:26","slug":"cryptopunk-nft-sells-for-11-8-million-at-sothebys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/cryptopunk-nft-sells-for-11-8-million-at-sothebys\/","title":{"rendered":"#’CryptoPunk’ NFT sells for $11.8 million at Sotheby\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#’CryptoPunk’ NFT sells for $11.8 million at Sotheby\u2019s<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Who says the NFT bubble has popped? \u00a0<\/p>\n

A non-fungible token (NFT) of a digital artwork called a CryptoPunk\u00a0defied expectations and just sold for $11.8 million at Sotheby\u2019s on Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u201cCryptoPunks are a set of 10,000 pixel-art characters made by Larva Labs in 2017\u201d and the mega bucks one that sold\u2014 CryptoPunk #7523\u00a0\u2014 is \u201cof the sought-after Alien variety with blue-green skin, and wearing a medical mask,\u201d according to Reuters<\/a>. It was bought with bitcoin and no physical artwork changes hands.<\/p>\n

Sotheby\u2019s announced the work was bought by Israeli entrepreneur Shalom Meckenzie, the largest shareholder of digital sports company DraftKings.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to continue to explore new and interesting ways in presenting these cutting-edge works,\u201d Michael Bouhanna, a contemporary art specialist at Sotheby\u2019s, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

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The work was bought by Israeli entrepreneur Shalom Meckenzie, the largest shareholder of digital sports company DraftKings.<\/figcaption>
Sotheby’s\/Handout via REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

This week the famous \u201cDoge\u201d NFT also sold at another auction for $4 million.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#’CryptoPunk’ NFT sells for $11.8 million at Sotheby\u2019s” Who says the NFT bubble has popped? \u00a0 A non-fungible token (NFT) of a digital artwork called a CryptoPunk\u00a0defied expectations and just sold for $11.8 million at Sotheby\u2019s on Thursday. \u201cCryptoPunks are a set of 10,000 pixel-art characters made by Larva Labs in 2017\u201d and the mega…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":273173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/06\/cryptopunk-7523-nft-sotheby-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[95118,109135,70728,76127,70535],"class_list":["post-273172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nft","tag-6-12-21","tag-auctions","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-sothebys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}