After Twitter, the New York Times also launches into the NFT market, the Non fungible tokens, digital certificates that are based on the blockchain and are becoming a real technological fever for collectors.
A Big Apple columnist sold one of his articles in NFT format for $ 563,000 that will go to a charity that cares for people in need.
The article, signed by Keven Roose, is entitled "Buy this column on the Blockchain": the experiment was done to test the market and understand which items can be sold in the form of Non fungible token.
"The biggest advantage of all is having a piece of history. This is the first article in the Times' nearly 170-year life to be distributed as an NFT, owning it could be equivalent to having the first NBC TV broadcast or the first email address of Aol, "explains Roose in his editorial.
At the end of the 24-hour auction, a collector who goes by the name of Farzin won the item with 350 Ethereum, a major cryptocurrency, worth $ 563,000 going to the Neediest Cases Fund association.
A few days ago Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, sold his first tweet, also a technological heirloom, in the form of a Non fungible token for 2.9 million dollars (went to charity);
while auction house Christie's sold a fully digital work by artist Beeple for $ 69 million, also recorded with an NFT.