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• UPROXX Ryan Nagelhout on x

  ‘Bad Luck Brian’ Sells For $36K At Auction As Retro-Memes Become The Latest Big-Ticket Item In The NFT Craze

• @christiesinc @christiesinc on x

  .@ChristiesInc is honored to announce that @Metakovan, the founder and financer of @Metapurse, the largest NFT fund in the world, was the winning bidder of @beeple's THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, for $69.3 m (42329.453 ETH). Read more here: https://www.christies.com/...

• @beeple @beeple on x

  holy fuck.

• @christiesinc @christiesinc on x

  .@beeple 's ‘The First 5000 Days’, the 1st purely digital NFT based artwork offered by a major auction house has sold for $69,346,250, positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists. Major Thanks to @beeple + @makersplaceco. More details to be released shortly

• @kathyjones Kathy Jones on x

  My favorite quote from this article: “It's not about making money... it's about democratizing art.” (selling fractional shares) https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @ricburton @ricburton on x

  Watch @beeple getting paid $69m 😍 https://twitter.com/...

• @thestalwart Joe Weisenthal on x

  The buyer of the Beeple has an NFT company himself. So it's basically a marketing expense that promotes the industry. https://www.bloomberg.com/...

• @metapurse Metapurse.eth on x

  Beeple's Magnum Opus: It was us. https://twitter.com/...

• @gerritd Gerrit De Vynck on x

  the person who bought the Beeple has also sold a tokenized version of other Beeple works. They arguably have the most invested in people thinking Beeples should be valued the same as Van Gogh, etc. https://twitter.com/...

• @rhhackett Robert Hackett on x

  “We made history and we created a god” in Beeple, he said. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @hragv Hrag on x

  Shady art market people give the rest of us a bad name. This is just scummy. https://twitter.com/...

• @robtfrank Robert Frank on x

  My interview with the partner of @MetaKovan , who bought the $69 million Beeple NFT. https://www.cnbc.com/...

• @thedomino Dominic Chu on x

  It totally makes sense that the person who paid $69 million for the Beeple NFT art...is a Crypto investor that goes by the name Metakovan: https://www.cnbc.com/... (via @robtfrank @cnbc)

• @abnux Abhinav on x

  TIL: the dude who purchased the highest valued NFT ever is Indian origin And wow is he articulate. https://twitter.com/...

• @sub8u Subrahmanyam Kvj on x

  The mystery buyer of Beeple's $69Mn NFT, @MetaKovan, is a Tamilian! Swell! https://twitter.com/...

• @joshspero Josh Spero on x

  Abasement isn't quite the word https://twitter.com/...

• @johngapper John Gapper on x

  We are honoured to announce that you've all been had https://twitter.com/...

• @modernistwitch Jes Skolnik on x

  to recap: this story about an “artist making a lot of money on an NFT” is actually a story about a buyer of that art reselling it to an NFT fund. this is a scam full stop https://twitter.com/...

• @benedictevans Benedict Evans on x

  I am shocked to discover that the NTF market works just like the art market 🤣 https://twitter.com/...

• @sacca @sacca on x

  Wow. @beeple. $69m for a purely digital work. No matter how you feel about NFT's, don't look away from this. It's okay to not get why someone would pay that, and it's okay to be bummed about the climate impact. But don't be willfully ignorant about what's happening.

• @obsoletedogma Matt O'Brien on x

  People are paying $69 million for a website that says they “own” something that everyone can download, and Republicans think we need to eliminate the estate tax https://www.nytimes.com/...