On March 11, 2021, a 443-megabyte JPEG image sold for a record-breaking $69.3 million. This sum was not only the highest price paid for a piece of digital artwork ever, but was also the third-highest auction price achieved by any living artist for a piece of artwork in any medium. The work, a collage of every image that digital artist Beeple has created since 2007, was “minted” in February as a non-fungible token, or “NFT.” Like the name suggests, one of the main features of NFTs is that they are non-fungible, meaning that they are individually unique. In comparison, cryptocurrencies…
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