MUMBAI, March 19 — An Indian-born blockchain entrepreneur has revealed himself as the mystery buyer who paid a record US$69.3 million (RM285.2 million) for a digital artwork last week, describing his purchase as a shot fired for racial equality. Programmer Vignesh Sundaresan, who is based in...
An Indian-born blockchain entrepreneur has revealed himself as the mystery buyer who paid a record US$69.3 million for Beeple’s ‘Everydays — The First 5000 Days’. — Picture courtesy of Christie’sMUMBAI, March 19 — An Indian-born blockchain entrepreneur has revealed himself as the mystery buyer who paid a record US$69.3 million for a digital artwork last week, describing his purchase as a shot fired for racial equality.
Around 22 million viewers tuned in to Christies.com on March 11 for the final moments of a bidding process that saw Sundaresan — under the pseudonym Metakovan — win the rights to digital artist Beeple’sBidding for the virtual collage of 5,000 images — the first purely digital NFT-based artwork ever sold by a major auction house — had started at US$100 before the price skyrocketed.
They have recently taken the art world by storm with many seeing them as an opportunity to monetise digital art of all kinds.
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