{"id":295412,"date":"2021-07-10T00:34:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/gigantic-diamond-sells-for-12m-in-cryptocurrency-at-sothebys-auction\/"},"modified":"2021-07-10T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T21:34:11","slug":"gigantic-diamond-sells-for-12m-in-cryptocurrency-at-sothebys-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/gigantic-diamond-sells-for-12m-in-cryptocurrency-at-sothebys-auction\/","title":{"rendered":"#Gigantic diamond sells for $12M in cryptocurrency at Sotheby\u2019s auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Gigantic diamond sells for $12M in cryptocurrency at Sotheby\u2019s auction<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A flawless 101.38-carat diamond was sold at auction for more than $12.2 million in cryptocurrency Friday, making it the most expensive piece of jewelry ever peddled through crypto, according to Sotheby\u2019s. <\/p>\n

The massive diamond, called \u201cThe Key 10138,\u201d was sold in Hong Kong to an unidentified private collector, said the 277-year-old auction house in a statement. <\/p>\n

The gem is one of just 10 diamonds of more than 100 carats ever to come to auction.<\/p>\n

The auction house had said it would accept payment for the diamond in either Bitcoin or Ether, but it was unclear which digital coin was used to buy the gem. <\/p>\n

Despite the record sale, the diamond sold for less than the upper end of its estimated value of $15 million. <\/p>\n

Auction Houses such as Sotheby\u2019s and rival Christie\u2019s have increasingly taken to accepting cryptocurrency as payment this year as the popularity of digital coins surged. <\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Key 10138\u201d was sold in Hong Kong to a private collector.<\/figcaption>
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Sotheby\u2019s in May\u00a0sold a Banksy piece for $12.9 million\u00a0in crypto \u2014 the first instance of a work of physical art sold by a major auction house in exchange for cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n

And back in March, Christie\u2019s made waves by selling a non-fungible token for the first time ever. The NFT, or one-of-a-kind, blockchain-based, digital artwork, sold for a staggering $69.3 million. <\/p>\n

Even as cryptocurrency has been increasingly embraced by institutions such as Sotheby\u2019s, as well as banks and major US corporations, the value of the digital tokens remains extremely volatile. <\/p>\n

Bitcoin, the biggest cryptocurrency by market cap, touched an all-time high of more than $64,000\u00a0in mid-April before falling back down and briefly dropping below $30,000, erasing its gains for the year. <\/p>\n

Bitcoin was last seen trading at about $33,500 per coin.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Gigantic diamond sells for $12M in cryptocurrency at Sotheby\u2019s auction” A flawless 101.38-carat diamond was sold at auction for more than $12.2 million in cryptocurrency Friday, making it the most expensive piece of jewelry ever peddled through crypto, according to Sotheby\u2019s. The massive diamond, called \u201cThe Key 10138,\u201d was sold in Hong Kong to an…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/bitcoin-diamond-sothebys-01.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[74862,111504,70728,76127,70535],"class_list":["post-295412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-7-9-21","tag-auctions","tag-cryptocurrency","tag-sothebys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295412","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=295412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}