{"id":288485,"date":"2021-07-01T15:01:38","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/nft-of-webs-source-code-sells-for-5-4m-but-contains-errors-lol\/"},"modified":"2021-07-01T15:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T12:01:38","slug":"nft-of-webs-source-code-sells-for-5-4m-but-contains-errors-lol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/nft-of-webs-source-code-sells-for-5-4m-but-contains-errors-lol\/","title":{"rendered":"#NFT of web&#8217;s source code sells for $5.4M \u2014 but contains errors (lol)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#NFT of web&#8217;s source code sells for $5.4M \u2014 but contains errors (lol)<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-cdn.tnwcdn.com\/image?fit=796%2C417&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fcdn0.tnwcdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fblogs.dir%2F1%2Ffiles%2F2021%2F07%2FUntitled-design-7.jpg&amp;signature=ac721732a6274f3b8afa884a096549d4\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Sir Tim Berners-Lee has sold an NFT of the original source code for the world wide web for an eye-watering $5.4 million, but the buyer could be in for an unpleasant surprise: a security researcher has spotted errors in the code.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Up front: <\/strong>The NFT market exploded in 2021, bagging artists and celebrities whopping sums for digital tokens that authenticate ownership of collectibles.<\/p>\n<p>Berners-Lee hopped on the bandwagon <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/protos.com\/nft-market-bubble-popped-crypto-collectibles-are-over\/\">amid signs<\/a> that the bubble was about to burst. He auctioned off an NFT representing this bundle of items:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The original archive of dated and time-stamped files containing the source code<\/li>\n<li>A Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) representation of the full code<\/li>\n<li>A letter he wrote reflecting upon the code and his process of creating it<\/li>\n<li>An animated visualization of the code being written<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The winning bidder, however, may not be getting exactly what they expected. Security expert Mikko Hypponen spotted some errors in the code.<\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cHold on\u2026the www source that Sotheby is auctioning? The angle brackets are wrong!\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikko\/status\/1410191059481673730\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThey\u2019ve been \u2014 yes \u2014 HTML encoded from \u2018&lt; &gt;\u2019 to \u2018&amp;lt; &amp;gt;\u2019. Lol.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hold on\u2026the www source that Sotheby is auctioning? The angle brackets are wrong! They&#8217;ve been \u2013 yes \u2013 HTML encoded from &#8220;&lt; &gt;&#8221; to &#8220;&amp;lt; &amp;gt;&#8221;. Lol. <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vb7clOETfU\">https:\/\/t.co\/vb7clOETfU<\/a><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kb1ugoPyok\">pic.twitter.com\/kb1ugoPyok<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 @mikko (@mikko) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikko\/status\/1410191059481673730?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Quick take:<\/strong> Hypponen found the errors in the animated visualization of the code.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe NFT consists of multiple components, and the code seems to be fine everywhere else, but the video seems to have all special characters encoded,\u201d\u00a0Hypponen told TNW via email. \u201cSuch code would not work and could not be compiled. Who knows, such an error might make this thing even more collectible for collectors. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>A developer <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RazoesSergio\/status\/1410193132004818953\">suggested<\/a>\u00a0that the mistakes were the result of using a web service to pretend to type the text in the video.<\/p>\n<p>The enormous winning bid shows there\u2019s still life left in the NFT market. But it also further exposes what a weird market it is. Still, the token\u2019s owner could find the blunder adds its own strange sense of value.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">But double hold on\u2026<\/p>\n<p>These NFT things are all about &#8216;owning a piece of internet history&#8217; so could this &#8216;artefact&#8217; actually be worth EVEN MORE now because of the cock up? \ud83d\ude43 <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V59qj4O2kw\">https:\/\/t.co\/V59qj4O2kw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Joe Tidy (@joetidy) <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joetidy\/status\/1410518133648117767?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The NFT certainly isn\u2019t worth\u00a0$5.4 million to me \u2014 with or without buggy code. The owner will prove me wrong if they resell it for a higher fee, but that\u2019s hard for me to imagine \u2014 which might be why I\u2019m writing about NFTs rather than investing fortunes in them. Regardless, I hope they enjoy their ludicrously expensive new certificate.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update (2:30PM CET, July 1, 2021): <\/b><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Added comment from\u00a0Mikko Hypponen.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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