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Category: NFT News
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Last year, the British Museum became one of the most high-profile museums to incorporate NFTs into their collection. At that time, the museum partnered with a French startup, LaCollection, to auction 200 works by Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai as NFTs. Hokusai is best known for his masterpiece `The Great Wave of Kanagawa ( c 1829-1833).’…
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Last month, I set out to buy an NFT for every one of my friends who wanted one. At the same time, I decided to run a twelve day giveaway on TikTok in which I gifted one NFT per day to a random user who commented on my video. Although it may sound like a…
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Last week, I was one of the few lucky winners of Twitter’s surprise NFT giveaway. Just a day later, I accepted a $15,000 USDC bid for the piece. I effectively was betting that the price would only go down from there. The party on the other end of the bid – an account named “NFT…
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The numbers are now in for an ambitious NFT experiment that challenged collectors to “melt” an extremely popular NFT in exchange for a reward: Nearly a third of holders of the SSX3LAU piece “FACES” participated in the operation, pouring almost $1,000,000 in estimated value into this digital smelting operation. At the time of writing, the…
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Something bizarre happened this week when Duke Dumont dropped his debut collection on Nifty Gateway: only one person bought into an open edition piece, effectively turning what should have been a solid middle-tier open edition NFT into a unique 1 of 1. The piece, Morganite, was a collaboration with LOREM in the DREAM LOGIC Open…
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Last week, artist Steven Baltay, who goes by the handle @realimposter on Instagram, minted a and daring experiment in NFT art. He called it Public Domain, and declared that, “This NFT will belong to the public. The artwork itself holds the seed phrase to the wallet containing it. Please do not buy, sell, trade or…
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Note: As of 3/29/2023, I own an NFT in the CryptoCities Suburbs collection. I therefore have a financial stake in the CryptoCities brand. Links on this page may contain affiliate codes for OpenSea that could compensate me in the event you purchase an NFT. This intricate piece caught my eye today on /r/NFT, as it’s…
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